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By Anjali Fluker and Denise Hicks  –  Orlando Business Journal Sep 13, 2022 Orlando Business Journal is honoring Central Florida's 2022 Fast 50, our annual list recognizes 50 of fastest-growing private companies in Central Florida. These companies are headquartered...

After historic run, here’s where Orlando’s cooling housing market is headed next. By Alex Soderstrom  –  OBJ Staff Writer & Orlando Inno Reporter, Orlando Business Journal Aug 4, 2022 For the first time in a couple of years, KeAusha Jordan is knocking on doors...

By Alex Soderstrom and Richard Bilbao  –  Orlando Business Journal Jun 20, 2022     The Disney employees who already bought Orlando homes will have to wait longer for the office to follow them. The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) is pushing back its plans to move 2,000...

By Alex Soderstrom  –  OBJ Staff Writer & Orlando Inno Reporter, Orlando Business Journal Jul 18, 2022 Stop me if you've heard this one before: Home prices hit a new record high in metro Orlando. Despite a decline in home sales and a jump in inventory, local home...

By Alex Soderstrom  –  OBJ Staff Writer & Orlando Inno Reporter, Orlando Business Journal Jul 6, 2022 More Orlando sellers cut their listing prices last month than at any point since at least 2018, signaling a shift from the whatever-it-takes housing market faced...

By Alex Soderstrom  –  OBJ Staff Writer & Orlando Inno Reporter, Orlando Business Journal Jun 20, 2022, Updated Jun 21, 2022, When a couple from New York saw the virtual 3D home tour of the house at 13337 Kirby Smith Road in Orlando's Lake Nona area, they fell in...

By Alex Soderstrom  –  OBJ Staff Writer & Orlando Inno Reporter, Orlando Business Journal Jun 8, 2022     The last red-hot U.S. housing market resulted in a popped bubble that contributed to the Great Recession, but economists don’t expect a similar outcome even...

By Alex Soderstrom  –  OBJ Staff Writer & Orlando Inno Reporter, Orlando Business Journal May 23, 2022 Updated May 23, 2022, 1:12pm EDT   A few months ago — thanks to the frenzied housing market activity resulting in homes quickly disappearing off the market —...

By Alex Soderstrom  –  OBJ Staff Writer & Orlando Inno Reporter, Orlando Business Journal May 20, 2022     Deanna Armel knows who she’s looking for. The broker and owner of Kissimmee-based Armel Real Estate Inc. on May 19 listed a $7 million Lake Nona home — the...

By Alex Soderstrom  –  OBJ Staff Writer & Orlando Inno Reporter, Orlando Business Journal Apr 11, 2022   Despite the ability to make a nice profit, one question keeps many homeowners from putting their houses up for sale: Where will they move?  While metro...

By Alex Soderstrom  –  OBJ Staff Writer & Orlando Inno Reporter, Orlando Business Journal Mar 11, 2022     In her 15-year Realtor career, Deanna Armel only twice has waived a financing contingency while putting in an offer on a home.  Both times were in the...

By Alex Soderstrom  –  OBJ Staff Writer & Orlando Inno Reporter, Orlando Business Journal Mar 4, 2022 Updated Mar 10, 2022,   A massive vacation home with 15 bedrooms has sold for $11.7 million, setting a record for an Osceola County home sale. The sale of Villa...