Orlando Real Estate Blog | Sellers Education Library | Team Donovan - Blog Archive: January, 2018 | Page #6

This unit is on the 4th floor in the Windsor Hills community. The building has elevators to help with those heavy groceries and suitcases on your move in day. It is fully furnished and nicely decorated. This top floor unit also has a balcony that is west facing allowing you to catch the sunset after a day of fun at the theme parks. The Windsor Hills community is only a few minutes away from main attractions such as theme parks, restaurants, and shopping centers making it the perfect place to call home.

Sold Price: $154,000

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Team Donovan enjoyed a record-setting year in 2017. The Orlando real estate firm sold over 210 listings, the most sales in its 13-year history. And it set an MLS (Multiple Listing Service) record for the number of listings sold by an agent. CEO and Real Estate Broker James Donovan attributes the strong showing in part to attractive exchange rates, which motivated many European owners to sell their vacation homes to U.S. and foreign investors for a profit. 

Donovan says his firm’s success is unique in the Central Florida real estate market. “On the listing side, I have not seen any other real estate agent with numbers as high as ours when it comes to vacation home sales,” said Donovan. He credits the high volume of listing sales to the company’s…

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***Published on 1st January 2018***

December "data" from the Resort Area Market...

The final sales activity review of 2017 revealed that the total number of homes listed for sale in the resort area stood at 1,500 which represented a 30.7% decrease in available inventory compared to the December 2016 total of 2,030.  Month on month listings were 70 up on last months 1,430. By listing type, the December inventory comprised 1,450 normal owner listings, down 34.4% from the 1950 December 2016 total. Bank owned listings month on month were down 2 at 29 while short sales also fell by 2 to 21 which compares to 45 bank owned homes and 35 short sales one year ago. Total sales during December of 337 were 25 higher than the corresponding month last year but…

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