Simon Conway's Orlando Real Estate Blog

We have a very busy and exciting radio show for you tomorrow including two guests! The first is attorney Lawrence Hodz who will shed light on Adverse Possession and how it works in Florida. This follows revelations on The Home Team Radio Show about some strange goings on in Colorado!Next up we ha...

This is a one of a kind southern colonial mansion that sits right on Lake Yale. Truly one of the best pieces of real estate in the Mount Dora, Eustis and Grand Island areas.TWIN EAGLES top seven ft white columns at the top of the 900 ft drive that leads to this unique Southern Colonial Mansion.St...

FANTASTIC VALUEfor this 3 bedroom 3 bathroom home in a highly desirable part of Altamonte Springs. This is Altamonte real estate at its very best.GREAT LOCATION!!! This home is seconds from everything including shops, restaurants, major highways, transportation and more. You have to Check out the...

Yes it is hard to believe but demand for mortgages surged this week, reaching a four year high as interest rates continued to fall dramatically.The Mortgage Bankers Association reported that application volume reached 906.4, an increase of 28.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis, up from 706 ...

Now this may or may not come as a shock to you, but homes are still selling inside of two weeks all over the country - even in some struggling areas.The reasons are simple and were recently highlighted in The Baltimore Sun.Some research on that market showed that 13% of the homes that sold in the...

The latest round of back and forth between the State of Florida and Allstate has culminated with the insurance company being banned from writing all business in the State - effective immediately!This took place after just two hours of a scheduled two day meeting between Allstate executives and In...

I am constantly amazed at some of the stories I hear. Yesterday I was showing one of my listings. It is a truly great home - the picture is of the master bathroom and you will find a link to the virtual tour at the bottom of this blog.Anyway the point is, my clients who live in the home, were out...

We have a very exciting radio show for you tomorrow including an in-depth discussion of the countrywide/Bank of America situation - the exact scenario predicted by The Home Team Radio Show more than two months ago.In addition to that we will be talking about Senate hearings coming up which will i...

A law dating back hundreds of years to English common law, has been invoked in Colorado to steal a lot a couple were planning to use to build their dream home on.Boulder couple Don and Susie Kirlin bought a piece of land in the early 1980s some 200 yards from their home. Raising a family delayed ...

Now there's not much unusual here. It happens all the time to all of us. What is different about this one however, is the source of the request.One of my clients had his home listed with me. Due to a variety of circumstances he needs to re-finance the home and so I told him in order for him to do...