The Yield

Tyler Davis, CFO at SVN SRD, teaches Linda (and the rest of us) about the challenges and requirements in starting an asset management company and the importance of having solid property management services, knowledgable leasing agents, and extensive real estate experience.

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Linda Schultz sits down with the Founder & Managing Director, Dean Saunders. In this episode, Dean talks about his time in the Florida House of Representatives, where he proposed and became one of three main sponsors of Bert J. Harris Private Property Rights Protection Act. This legislation later evolved into Florida’s conservation easements programs.

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Richard "The King" Dempsey is the most tenured real estate advisor at SVN Saunders Ralston Dantzler Real Estate. While Richard prefers transactions dealt only in cash, he has plenty of experience in smaller deals that often lead to bigger headaches. He shares the difficulties in knowing when a lead is worth pursuing and how modern technologies make it easier and, occasionally, more challenging.

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Our annual Lay of the Land Conference archive is full of helpful expertise for landowners. In this podcast from the 2018 conference, Brendon Dedekind, CCIM, provides a high-level view of Central Florida’s industrial market.

Brendon said his clients come into Florida looking for a piece of land where they can build a million square feet in 12 months. We don’t keep that kind of product sitting around on the shelf.

If you own land near road infrastructure that are extensive tracts of land, you must position the land well. Decide if industrial is the highest and best use, and then get that land set for production and industrial. The first one that's ready to deliver is usually the person who gets the last look by the institutional buyers.

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On April 7, the US Treasury Department released a nineteen-page document outlining some of the key provisions in President Biden’s Made in America Tax Plan. In the weeks since, additional provisions and guidance have been released and discussed.

While the effects of the proposed tax changes are different for each industry, they will undoubtedly impact commercial real estate in Florida. In this video, Tyler Davis analyzed a few of the key proposed changes affecting property owners in the state of Florida.

To download these slides or print out a summary article, please visit:  https://www.saundersrealestate.com/the-biden-tax-plans-potential-impacts-on-florida-commercial-real-estate/

Our Lay of the Land Conference archive is full of helpful expertise for landowners. In this podcast from the 2018 conference, Paul Romanowski, the Florida Region President of DR Horton, Inc., reviewed the residential development market. 

Paul provided this overview of the residential market in Florida, which has continued strong growth since the time of this recording. In 2017, the market represented about $140 billion worth of sales and industry, with about one-quarter of the activity in new homes.

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Different forms of air conditioning and refrigeration have been around for centuries. Still, it wasn't until one Floridian came up with a unique idea in the 1840s that progress began, leading to today’s modern air conditioning.

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Millions of citrus acres have been lost to greening, thousands of jobs have been lost, and billions of state income have been lost. Millions of dollars have been spent both by the government and private citizens and companies on research for a cure, but none have been found to date.

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Zora Neale Hurston lived her life to the fullest and became a significant figure in Florida history. Not only was she an extremely accomplished and respected writer, but she spent almost twenty years as an anthropologist, collecting and preserving the cultures she studied. Today her books are mandatory reading in high schools and colleges around the world and a treasured resource of Black history.

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While not as famous as Blackbeard, Black Caesar gave the shores of Florida's east coast the nickname the Gold Coast by burying his gold on the beaches. His infamy grew large enough to gain the attention of Blackbeard, who recruited him to join his crew. After being captured in Africa and sold into slavery, Black Caesar’s journey from tribal chief, to slave, to piracy began.

Read more and find more great Florida history at thelandjournal.net.