Category: Agentes inmobiliarios de Orlando

Orlando Realty Welcomes Claudio Lemes To The Team

Publicado el por Jenny Zamora

Claudio Lemes Orlando Realtor  BIO

Bringing extensive knowledge of the real-estate market interior, exterior painting and construction to his position as a talented and respected Agente inmobiliario en Orlando. Fully Bilingual, Claudio offers his clients an outstanding level of service. His diverse training and work ethics give him an opportunity to excel at every level of the real estate transaction.  

Prior to earning his Realtor license, Claudio concentrated in customer satisfaction sessions and seminars to become a master in the field. Combining his strong painting and construction background extensive experience as a full-time Realtor and dedication to ongoing education in his field. Claudio provides an unsurpassed choice for anyone ready to purchase or sell a home.

Known by clients and colleagues alike for his tenacity, perseverance, honesty, and fairness. Claudio also enjoys a stellar reputation for quick, timely responses to each client’s needs and concerns. His telephone and email are always at hand. The result of that consummate professionalism is his extensive portfolio of referrals from past and present clients.

In addition, Claudio credits the values instilled in him by his parents. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina he moved to Orlando Florida in his early twenties for a better life. He attended local schools and traveled to Argentina to visit family at times. Claudio and his wife are raising a teenager who enjoys science, basketball, and the arts.

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Orlando Real Estate Joint Venture to Bring 800 Luxury Apartments to Central Florida

Publicado el por Jenny Zamora

  Orlando real estate developers, the Del American Real Estate Group Inc, have ventured into a partnership with the BentleyForbes LLC from California to build around 800 new apartments in Central Florida. Their development partnership goes by the name BentleyForbes Del American.

The BentleyForbes Del American Projects

BentleyForbes Del American was created to build high-end apartment communities in California, Florida and Texas. These apartment communities would constitute of luxury, resort site multifamily apartments.

Chairman and CEO of the Del American Real Estate Group, Chris DelGuidice revealed that a letter of intent of their first project as a partnership had already been submitted for two Central Florida sites that the state had approved and zoned for housing construction.

These two potential sites include one in the Winter Park or Maitland sub-market and another in Orange County. DelGuidice also reveled that, if approved, the apartment communities on both sides would be constructed like the Pure Living apartment complex in Heathrow.

Constructed by the Del American Group in 2008, Pure Living Heathrow complex was put up for sale in 2010 and has since, become the symbol of luxury living.

According to DelGuidice, both deals can be expected to come through, by the second or third week of February. If approved, the BentleyForbes Del American would begin the design and engineering work by March and the actual construction work is to begin in the fall of this year.

Apart from the construction of Pure Living apartments on these two sites, the joint venture is also working on sealing other deals the details of which haven’t been revealed by CEO DelGuidice yet, because of the lack of any “definite agreements” as he puts it.

Support to nearby businesses

Construction on the first, two-site project is projected to cost anything between $108 million to $132 million for the joint venture. Real estate agents in Orlando and Central Florida have welcomed the news since the project has opened up several opportunities for them. The project would bring new high-end apartments – boosting the growth of the Central Floridian sub-markets. Additionally, local businesses – shops, restaurants and so on would see higher traffic and the possibility of the emergence of new businesses.

Additionally, the project is expected to create temporary construction jobs for over a thousand workers as well as subcontracting opportunities for other Orlando real estate developers.

Considering other new projects that have been creeping up all over Central Florida, like the 330-unit apartment community near Orlando International Airport, Orlando Realtors are convinced that 2014 is going to be good year for the housing market.

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Confidence in US Economy Rising Among Floridians

Publicado el por Jenny Zamora

 According to the findings of a new consumer confidence survey by the University of Florida, Floridians are now slightly more confident about the improving US economy than they were the last year. Released on Tuesday, January 28, the report found consumer confidence in Florida rise to 78, one point higher than the previous sentiment index.

The Florida Consumer Attitude Survey

For this statewide survey, the University surveyed over 400 residents over a two-week period from January 14 to January 28. The monthly survey conducted by the Bureau of Economic and Business Research of the University of Florida measures the mood of Floridians towards buying Florida real estate.

Survey takers have to answer two questions about the current financial scenario and three questions about the future exceptions they have about the financial condition of the state. These questions are repeated by the University of Michigan in its national (telephonic) survey.

Findings

To the first question of how the respondents (and their families) were getting along financially in the recent days and if they felt in a better financial position than their position a year ago, respondents revealed their sentiments were slightly lower – their sentiments fell a point below to 68.

The second question in the survey asked citizens their views about buying major commodities like stoves, televisions, refrigerators and so on for their homes. Their sentiment on whether it is currently a good time to make such purchases fell six points, from 91 to 85.

When asked how they perceived their financial situation to be, a year from now – the same, better or worse, respondents’ sentiments remained unchanged, at 78. They were however, clearly optimistic about the business conditions in the US as a whole, over the next 12 months. Their confidence that they would have good times financially jumped three points from 73 to land at 76 this time around.

Their confidence in the larger US economy for a five-year period was even higher. Jumping nine points, Floridians sentiments that the nation’s health would get better and better over the next five years measured at 83.

Implications

Chris McCarty, the director of the Bureau of Economic and Business Research’s Survey Research Center says 2014 is set to be a different year all-together for consumers. Since the real estate crisis of 2007, consumers have faced loss of homeowner equity, declines in stock market and crunchy budgets, but with the stock and housing markets recovering recently, the Federal Reserve is in a better position to purchase securities and treasuries to support the US economy.

How This Affects Orlando Real Estate

Orlando is one of the biggest housing markets in Florida and because of the improving economy in Florida, Agentes inmobiliarios en Orlando are expecting a substantial boost in the Orlando real estate market. Even if the market continues on a positive trend,  I don’t believe that we’ll see a market with overinflated home prices to the extent of what we saw in 2006 or at least I hope not.

 

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New Consumer Protection Rule Requires Lenders to Disclose Appraisals and Valuation Data to Mortgage Applicants

Publicado el por Jenny Zamora

January 18th saw the kicking in of new appraisal disclosure regulations – strengthening the sentiment of prospective property buyers and sellers alike. This new consumer protection law may help the Orlando real estate market to bloom further and listing agents in Orlando and other emerging US real estate and property markets are looking forward to witnessing the change.

Under the new rule, prospective buyers have the right to demand and receive a free copy of the appraisals, reviews, and details of computer valuations used for their mortgage applications from their lenders.

And what does this mean for consumers? They can make use of increased information and insight about the processing of their mortgage applications to their advantage. For instance, homebuyers who feel they were unjustly denied an appraisal would now have better proof, more time, and stronger ammunition to challenge the erroneous appraisal.

Key aspects of the new disclosure rules

The new rules currently apply only to first loans. Home equity loans or second mortgages are not covered under the appraisal disclosure rule but reverse mortgages and construction loans fall in its jurisdiction.

Central Florida and Orlando realtors are hopeful the new rule will help buyers contest wrongful processing of mortgage applications and increase their purchase power.

Key features of the new rule include:

* Lenders must inform mortgage applicants that they would promptly receive a copy of any appraisal that is valued for them, within three days of receiving the mortgage application from the consumer.

* Consequently, lenders must provide free copies of such appraisals and valuations.

* They have until three days before the closure of the loan, to provide the free copies of appraisal reports, valuations, and other proceedings. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau however suggests reports to be sent as soon as they are completed, or three days before the loan is due to close, whichever comes earlier.

* This essentially means, home buyers are entitled to receiving their copy of the valuation and appraisal report, even if lenders fail to close their loans.

The Bureau provides lenders the option of asking a consumer to opt-out of the 3-day deadline. A consumer who agrees would thus receive his copy of the report at the time of closing of the mortgage. On the other hand, a customer who does not waive the deadline must be provided with his copy, within the stipulated time.

Orlando real estate agents feel the new law will help Orlando residents review the data used by the appraiser and contest faulty appraisals – increasing their confidence in seeking mortgages to purchase the property.

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Florida Water and Land Conservation Bill to be Put up for Voting on November Ballot

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Voters from Florida are now going to decide whether or not the Water and Land Conservation constitutional amendment should be passed, during the November 2014 ballot.

On January 16, the Water and Land Legacy of Florida – the group seeking to push through the proposed amendment, announced that it had received the number of signatures required to put the amendment proposal up for voting on the November ballot.
About the Water and Land Conservation constitutional amendment

The amendment seeks to set aside $10 billion from Florida’s state funds for the purpose of land and water conservation, over a period of 20 years. Conservationists began pushing for the amendment after the government slashed funding reserved for the Florida Forever program.

The program, which aims to purchase and manage critical pieces of land that are environmentally endangered, received most of its funding from taxes on real estate purchases and leases before the slashing of funds. The proposed amendment makes no attempts to increase the real estate spending tax and has revived the approval of a majority of the real estate agents in Orlando and Florida.

Florida’s Division of Elections website mentioned that the Water and Land Legacy had in fact overshot the required number of signatures by 2,822 by submitting an impressive 685,971 signatures on Thursday morning.
Improving land and water quality will have various positive implications

Water and land quality issues impact multiple areas of Florida’s economy, including the real estate market. In booming markets like that of central Florida and Orlando, environment-friendly campaigns like the protection of natural areas and water sources go on to boost consumer sentiments in real estate investments.

These programs also attract prospective home buyers to the neighborhood, and Orlando realtors expect to see increased activity in the Orlando real estate market. With the Water and Land Legacy group surpassing signature thresholds in 15 of the 27 Congressional districts of the state of Florida, it is clear that residents are growing increasingly concerned about the water quality issues in the state.

Will Abberger, Chairman of the campaign launched by the organization said the amendment would focus on spending funds to acquire new pieces of conservation or recreation lands, manage the existing ones and protect land and water sources that were critical for freshwater supply, in a bid to restore degrading natural systems in and around the state.

The Senate has already started working on a $220 million funding package that would be used to improve the water quality of the Lake Okeechobee and Everglades. There also exist several other spending programs in the pipeline and come November 2014, the people of Florida will put the Water and Land Conservation Amendment in action if 60 percent of the total voters pitch their votes in favor of the bill. https://orlandorealtyconsultants.com/

 

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