5 Bedroom, 3 Bathroom Pool Home in Davenport, FL

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There were just 7 properties left from the weekends Reunion auction held in Orlando Florida. If you would like to make an offer on any of the below properties please contact us here: info@britishhomesgroup.com

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1208 Radiant Drive – Reunion Florida

1210 Radiant Drive – Reunion Florida

1519 Corolla Drive – Reunion Florida

7603 Heritage Crossing Way #202 - Reunion Florida

7818 Whitemarsh Way - Reunion Florida

7841 Palmilla Court - Reunion Florida

7849 Palmilla Court - Reunion Florida

Please contact us here to make offers on these Florida homes or call 0800 096 5989

UK RESIDENTS OFFERED FREE LUXURY HOLIDAY TO ORLANDO AS PART OF LENNAR HOMES INCENTIVE PACKAGE

THE BRITISH HOMES GROUP Florida, experts in providing sales and loans advice to UK property owners in Florida, is giving away a luxury family holiday as part of a package of incentives to encourage UK buyers to consider a LENNAR HOME.  Lennar Homes is the third largest developer in the USA and Florida’s leading developer in 2007.

The free family holiday, worth up to $7,500, includes:

Limousine rides to and from your UK home to a major UK airport
Return airfares to and from Orlando or Sanford International Airport
Limousine rides to and from Lennar Homes’ spectacular new resort community, Paradise Palms
3-Night, 4-Day stay in a 4-bedroom luxurious, fully-furnished town home
Car rental during your stay
VIP property tour of Paradise Palms and The Shire at West Haven Villas
Day passes to a theme park of your choice
Options to extend your stay at special rates

Two resorts, minutes from Walt Disney World in Orlando, have been selected by the British Homes Group for the special treatment:

Paradise Palms – Kissimmee, Florida

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offers two-story town homes that come with private, screened, heated swimming pools. Each home is fully furnished with GE CleanSteel appliances and flat-screen TVs in the living room and all bedrooms.

The “Sabal Palm” floor plan offers 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms at 1,780 sq. ft. The “Beach Palm” offers 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, also at 1,780 sq. ft.and the “Royale Palm” floor plan offers 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms at 1,967 sq. ft.

The Paradise Palms community, just 8 minutes from Walt Disney World, has something for everyone. The superbly-equipped multi-million dollar clubhouse and surrounding amenities are available to both residents and guests. Amenities include a 24-hour manned security gate, resort style pool with tiki bar, waterfalls and grottos as well as a heated spa and children’s pool.  Alongside the pool area is the Tiki Bar and Grill serving drinks and refreshments to order.  

Paradise Palms Resort also features a movie theatre, tennis, basketball and volleyball courts, fitness centre and sauna, tetherball, bocce, badminton, Internet Lounge, game room and gift shop.

The on-site management company that can provide short-term rental assistance should purchasers choose to rent their town home while they are not using it. 

Other promotion incentives include:

• A $10,000 reduction on the current price of the property
• a $6,000 allowance towards mortgage closing costs (legal fees)
• Payment of the first years’ homeowners association service charges and maintenance costs (approximately $5,000)

The Shire at West Haven – Davenport, Florida

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is a development of 4 and 5 bedroom detached villas with 3 and 4 bathrooms and 2-car garages. The “Hampton” floor plan is priced at $385,990 (£194,531), the “Woodford” floor plan is priced at $460,990 (£232,330), and the “Nottingham” floor plan is priced at $490,990 (£247,410).

The villas have private, screened, heated swimming pools, on oversized plots.  Community amenities include tennis, volleyball, children’s play area, clubhouse with fitness centre and lounge. West Haven is located in close proximity to Champions Gate (a 36-hole championship golf course), and Walt Disney World  is just 15 minutes away.

Other promotion incentives offered by Lennar include:

• Lowering of the price of the home by $10,000
• a $6,000 allowance towards mortgage closing costs (legal fees)
• an array of energy saving products and features
• GE appliances fitted as standard
• A furniture voucher worth up to a $20,000

For the British buyer, the value of these incentives is multiplied by the currently highly favourable currency exchange rate of the U.K. pound against the U.S. dollar which makes buying Florida real estate cheaper than it has been for years.  

Lee Weaver, of The British Homes Group, the UK’s favourite “one stop shop” for British villa owners in Florida says: “For the UK buyer, prices of property in Florida are at their lowest level since 2003. The choice is immense and the quality extremely high so it’s a true buyer’s market.  Through British Home Loans, our Orlando-based multi-currency mortgage brokerage company, British and European buyers have the option to arrange a mortgage in 9 different currencies – including Euros, Pounds and U.S. Dollars with future flexibility to change the currency, depending on personal or economic factors. With excess inventory, a reduction in prices, motivated sellers and a strong buying currency, there has never been a better time to buy a Florida home.

“We have never seen such a superb range of real financial incentives to bring the price down lower still.  Florida’s largest and most respected developer, Lennar Homes, has made it so very easy for Brits to come over to inspect the communities and choose which property type is best for them”.

To find out more information on the ‘Free Orlando’ offer please visit: http://www.britishhomesgroup.com/lennar.php or call Lee Weaver at British Homes Group on their UK to Orlando Freephone number 0800 096 5989.

What a great year it has been, this blog has gone from strength to strength and the exchange rate has become great for British buyers in Florida.

Why not start the new year with a great holiday home in the sunshine state?

Please click on the link below or call us on our freephone number 0800 096 5989.

Florida is a true buyers market, with the Pound and Dollar Exchange Rate reachign record levels…Now may be the best time in years to purchase a Florida property.

With 4 Bedroom Pool Homes under $250,000 (£125,000 roughtly at an exchange rate of $2 to £1) it is an opportunity not to be missed!

Please contact us if you are considering buying a property and/or need financing as we can look at loan products in US Dollar, Sterling, Euro and More!

The Guardian is one of the UK’s leading Newspapers and on Saturday released an Article about holiday homes you can afford and one of the locations it selected was Florida, it notes the downturn in the market – which is slowly coming to an end, with home prices in the area seeing a slight upswing! – this has lead to many bargains being available and for British investors the saving is even better by the current exchange rate of $2 to £1 – the best rate in 26 years!

Florida property offers exceedingl good value, with a 4 bedroom luxury  pool home near to the world famous theme parks costing just $250,000 – or in pound, £125,000!

Check out the article to see what the Guardian have to say.

Lee Weaver, Director of Operations for the British Homes Group in Orlando, Florida,  has lived in Central Florida for the last 14 years. He is an ex-pat, owns a vacation home in The Manors at Westridge on Highway 27 and has been involved with thousands of British investors buying or financing property throughout Florida.

We asked Lee for his opinions on the current Real Estate market in Florida and what are some of the options available to existing owners…

As you have mentioned I have lived in and around Orlando for the last 14 years. The past 4 years have been dedicated to providing real estate, mortgage and other related property services to fellow Brits buying anywhere in Florida. I own a buy-to-let villa myself in the Westridge community, close to Walt Disney World. It was originally mortgaged with a U.K. Sterling home loan from GE Money’s U.K. subsidiary, British Mortgages Abroad, but it was recently re-financed to the innovative Lloyds TSB multi-currency mortgage. The home was previously used as short-term rental villa but now has a 2 year tenant.

Our company, The British Homes Group (www.britishhomesgroup.com) and staff members are well respected throughout the industry, both in the U.K. and in Florida and our General Manager, Chris Doran, appears in the ‘Buyers Guide to Florida’ on Real Estate TV’s home page.

Our customer philosophy has always been to ‘advise in the best interest of the client’. This basic principle, along with our British backgrounds, local Florida expertise and genuine concern for our clients’ satisfaction has enabled us to be recognized as the UK’s favourite one-stop shop for British villa owners in Florida since 2001.

The current market condition for Florida, quite simply put, is – great if you are a buyer – particularly if you are buying with British pounds at a current 26 year high against the U.S. dollar – but not so great if you NEED to sell.

One of the strongest factors driving this market turnaround has been inventory levels. 23,500 homes were on the market for sale in March of 2007. Compare that with the 2,500 available in March of 2005, and it’s easy to understand how this huge swing in the supply and demand ratios has influenced current market conditions.

For the buyers the benefits are readily apparent – greater flexibility in negotiations with the sellers, contributions towards closings costs, upgrades and incentives from builders and (although mostly from U.S. owners due to high loan to value ratios) foreclosure opportunities from defaulting borrowers.

Add in a 2 to 1 exchange rate and a settling (or in some cases a reduction) of prices and you can see why purchase enquiries are even stronger than ‘normal’. The scenarios are almost returning to that of about 2 years ago where you could buy a 4 bedroomed pool home for about £125,000. By the time you have paid the 20% deposit, payments can be as low as £600.00 per month and the costs are much more manageable.

Of course the flip side of ‘all that is good’ for the Florida buyer creates an unfortunate condition for the seller.  Nearly all of the owners we talk to want to retain their Florida asset and therefore should not be affected in this short-term lull. At the very least they want to be able to maintain ownership for at least the next couple of years and then re-assess, and there are a number of ways to achieve that goal:

Evaluate your current mortgage position

If you currently have a U.S. mortgage consider a U.K. Sterling home loan while the exchange rate is so strong – you can always switch back to a U.S. product at a later date.

Don’t forget, with the new multi-currency mortgage, you can go through these same currency conversions without paying recurring switching fees and/or closing costs!

Don’t just leave it up to your management company for rentals

Get more involved with the booking of your villa. We consistently talk to owners who are booking to capacity and the underlying element is always that they are actively involved in the marketing of their Florida rental property themselves – not just through U.K. papers and outlets but also through U.S. ones. Americans are increasingly warming to the idea of spending their vacations in a private villa, just as we Brits have done in Europe for years, and there are hundreds of free online and print listing opportunities when you start to consider the U.S. holiday maker. The British Homes Group also has an online rental programme to help our customers rent their properties as well.

Be different

Be creative in your property fixtures and fittings to encourage repeat bookings – use the latest ‘Accreditation Services’ for an independent assessment and rating of your property – find out how you compare to other villas and what you can do to improve the guest’s experience during their stay.

Think long term as well

Long-term rentals are becoming more popular – Kissimmee, Davenport, Clermont and Haines City are the four most popular areas for British short-term rental owners – all four also have large residential communities that provide 1 to 2 year long-term rental options for property owners.

Assess your management company

What are their average number of bookings per year? How do they advertise their homes for rent? Do they have a lot of add on fees? What do they charge to process your bookings? How do they compare with others?

There is a wealth of information on our website to keep all of our customers updated with Florida news and information – our Florida Blog (blog.britishhomesgroup.com), Property Sales and Rental Portals, Advisory Panel contacts and Newsletter subscriptions are all free and are excellent Florida resources.

We have established a freephone number from the UK to Florida – 0800 096 5989 – and welcome questions, comments and enquiries from existing Florida property owners or anyone that is considering entering the Florida real estate market.

Needless to say, all calls are in confidence and without obligation, and our advice, estimates and recommendations are always unbiased and free.

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Phone within UK: 0800 096 59 89 (Freephone)

Phone within US: 407 396 9914 (8 lines)

Email: Info@BritishHomesGroup.com

Web: www.BritishHomesGroup.com

Blog: blog.britishhomesgroup.com

Orlando Area Home Sales may have slowed but the median price is on the up again! The median price for existing home sales in the area is up 1.61% on June 2006. This is great news, however inventory is at a historic high topping 25,000 homes – inventory has risen by 41% this year alone! Now it would take 18 months to clear inventory when 2 years ago there was only 2 months of inventory.

This is great news, home values are stable and on a slight increase fueled by international buyers and wealthy buyers purchasing second homes. All taking advantage of the huge selection of home. A true buyer market.

From an international buyers perspective – especially a Brits – the exchange rate is at its best, with the dollar the weakest in over quarter of a century.

The time to buy is now!

What do you need when you are planning on one of the hottest theme park developments in a decade? You need a contractor. Not your average contractor but one that makes the magic come to life. These specialists – such as ones which build fake rocks for instance! – are aching to get a slice of the $265million Wizarding World of Harry Potter development at Universal Studio’s Orlando.

Members of the ‘theme park building trade’ are eager to get their hands dirty. The development coincides with other theme park developments around the world in response to a global upswing in visitor numbers. The Orlando Sentinel Has the Full Report.

As previously blogged about , the demand for high end homes is still very high and this section of the market is in stark contrast of the lower end which has seen a slight slowdown in recent months. The luxury home builders are finding that they cannot keep up with demand!

Anything from the $500,000 to $2 million dollar mark is selling well! The custom homebuilders are seeing a backlog in work not in weeks but months! This is great news as it shows how popular Florida property is for invesment. There are so many gorgeous locations to have homes built on and many have lake access for boating, fishing and water skiing….the true Florida lifestyle!