Lisa Hill (Daytona Beach Real Estate)

Are you looking to buy a new house in Port Orange Florida? You've come to the right place!

Last month I posted a blog about Centerline Homes at Oakbrook. But this month we're going to focus on Holiday Builders, who are also building homes in Oakbrook at Port Orange.

If you'd like to learn more about living in Port Orange, try these links... (I'm live here too, so feel free to ask, if you don't find what you need in these other posts.)

• Things to Do in Port Orange Florida
• Picture Yourself in Port Orange
• Port Orange Florida; A Great Place to Live
• Plan A Fun Outing in Port Orange

• Countryside Community in Port Orange-Clubhouse, Tennis, Pool & more. A great place to buy your next home!
• The Villages of Royal Palm- Country Club Style Community in Port Orange

Now for this month's featured builder in Oakbrook: a new, fabulous Port Orange Neighborhood.

Holiday Builders has been around the Daytona Beach area for many years and they are currently building homes in a couple of local comunities. But since this post is about Oakbrook, here are the models for this particular neighborhood.

House Models, Bedrooms, Bathrooms and Square Footage...

• Albany, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2015 square feet of living area
• Brighton, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1974 square feet of living area
• Capri 4, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1904 square feet of living area
• Hollywood, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1510 square feet of living area
• Premier San Marcos SG, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1692 square feet of living area
• Weston, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, 2701 square feet of living area

Unfortunately, Holiday Builders is not providing standard pricing at this time. So if any of these homes appear to meet your size needs, or your required number of bedrooms and bathrooms, just give me a call or send me an e-mail and I'll provide you with a current price list.

If you're considering buying real estate in Port Orange Florida, make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa Hill today! I'm a native of this area and I also make my home in Port Orange. I'm the expert on this city and I'd love to help!

www.BuyPortOrangeRealEstate.com

The house featured in the video below is located on 1 acre in Port Orange. The price has just been reduced to $339,000. There will be an open house this Sunday from 2:00 - 4:00

As I continue to provide you with updates on real estate in 2007 for the Daytona Beach area, in post number 7, (this post) we'll cover South Daytona. South Daytona is located to the immediate south of Daytona Beach, but does not extend to the beachside/peninsula. However, South Daytona does have some exquisite luxury homes on the Intracoastal Waterway and the U.S.1 corridor in that area is under completely redevelopment. Commercial buildings are eligible for government grants to freshen up the city. Some other added bonuses are the riverfront parks, plenty of sidewalks, more affordable homes than you'll found in Port Orange, Ormond Beach or any of the beachside areas, and slightly lower property taxes.

To read my other posts in this real estate 2007 year-in-review series, start with the Daytona Beach post, which contains the most overall details. Each of the other posts contain a snippet from the Daytona Beach post. The links are as follows...

• Daytona Beach
• Daytona Beach Shores
• Port Orange
• Ormond Beach
• Ormond by the Sea
• Ponce Inlet
  

View the chart below to see the real estate sales comparison over the last few years for the city of South Daytona.

If you're planning to sell or buy real estate in South Daytona or any of the cities in this area, make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa C Hill.

www.LisaHillRealtor.com

For post number 6 in my 2007 real estate year in review series for the Daytona Beach area, this post will cover Ponce Inlet. In east Volusia County, Ponce Inlet is the premier city and arguably the most desirable location. Even in the worst markets with the slowest sales, the values remain the highest in the area. To find out why, read Buying or Selling Ponce Inlet Real Estate?

To continue learning the real estate sales statistics for each city in east Volusia County in 2007, check each city below...

• Daytona Beach
• Daytona Beach Shores
• Port Orange
• Ormond Beach
• Ormond by the Sea

For Ponce Inlet, as I did in my other posts in this series, I'm going to use an excerpt from my original post on Daytona Beach...

"experts in the industry believe that 2008 is the year that the correction period will be complete and real estate values in the Daytona Beach area will once again begin their climb. You have to remember...

1. Daytona Beach has always been a highly sought-after location for real estate buyers from all over the country, due to it's warm climate and affordable cost of living.
2. It's very likely that this very month, our property taxes will drop significantly as the Florida Association of REALTORS is pushing hard for voters to approve into law, the portable homestead exemption for their property taxes.
3. With U.S. currency being so under-valued, Florida is a hot spot for foreign investors who are looking for a desirable climate and an excellent return on their investments. We are seeing this more and more, especially with the internet making it so easy for foreign investors to find the properties they desire.

It's important for you to read the remainder of the information found in the Daytona Beach real estate post to add to this information. For the Ponce Inlet information, view the chart below.

If you're planning to sell or buy real estate in Ponce Inlet or any of the cities in this area, make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa C Hill.

www.LisaHillRealtor.com

This is my 5th post in my 2007 real estate year in review series for the Daytona Beach area. This one is about Ormond by the Sea. If you're not familiar with the Daytona Beach area and how the cities are laid out, click here on Ormond by the Sea to view a map.

Prior to this post we've covered

• Daytona Beach
• Daytona Beach Shores
• Port Orange
• Ormond Beach

As I did in my other posts, I'm going to insert a little excerpt from my Daytona Beach post here.

"It was at the beginning of 2006 that some real estate agents in east Volusia County, where the Daytona Beach Area Association of REALTORS is located, began to report slower sales. I can't speak for everyone, but I personally saw no change in my sales until July of 2006. In fact, by June of 2006 I had already beat my 2005 year-to-date sales and was set to have another record-breaking year. But in July of 2006, as I described it at the time, my personal business came to a sudden halt. Little did I know that what I considered a sudden halt was nowhere near the complete halt that was yet to come. And the inventory began to climb, faster and faster and faster."

Be sure to read the entire post as the Daytona Beach Area Association of REALTORS® encompasses all these cities, and the information in that post pertains to Ormond by the Sea as well.

Now, for the statistical real estate data on Ormond by the Sea for 2007, view the following chart.

As like most of the cities in east Volusia County, Ormond by the Sea had it's best year in 2005. What's interesting is how high the sales were in 2002 as well. And in 2006, the drop was beyond significant!

I have a few more cities to cover before I've covered all of east Volusia County. If you're planning to sell or buy real estate in Ormond by the Sea or any of the cities in this area, make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa C Hill.

www.LisaHillRealtor.com

I just finished giving annual real estate updates for the year 2007 for

• Daytona Beach
• Daytona Beach Shores
• Port Orange

As I stated in a couple of those posts, my motto for this year is Real Estate is Great in 2008! I came up with that motto with good reason. Just read my post titled Good News for Central Florida Real Estate in 2008.

But this post is about what happened in real estate for the year 2007 for the city of Ormond Beach Florida. This is the year-in-review market report.

Let me start by quoting from my Daytona Beach real estate 2007 year-in-review post.

"Over the last month or so, I noticed an interesting trend. The residential real estate listing base in the Daytona Beach Area Multiple Listing Service (MLS), which includes all of East Volusia County plus some crossover listings from neighboring areas, has been slowly dropping..." You can read the rest of that post by following the Daytona Beach link above. You'll need the information that's in that post to compare to the data in the following chart for Ormond Beach, since these cities are all part of the Daytona Beach Area Association of REALTORS®.

Unlike most of the other surroundng cities, Ormond Beach real estate sales remained fairly steady all the way up to 2006. But the peak years were the same as Daytona Beach, unlike Daytona Beach Shores, where the highest year's sales were in 2004.

I have several more cities to post, to cover all of east Volusia County. Then I'll add a post with a combined chart of all east Volusia cities.

If you're planning to sell or buy real estate in Ormond Beach, make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa Hill.