Real Estate

Ocala needs more shopping and restaurants on the southwest side, and apartments. We the regular Floridians don’t have the kind of money that these people have coming from out of town places like New York and California, so please develop our beautiful city the way it was intended to be. We missed out on when the Yankee Minor League team wanted to build a stadium here some years back. The older generation complained and it was cancelled. So again, please develop Ocala.

The Florida Realtors agents’ association’s March 2024 market report shows that statewide the median single-family home sale price rose to $420,600, a 3.9% year over year increase, and townhouses and condo median sales price were $330,000, a 3.1% year over year increase. Single-Family Market Sector. Brad O’Connor, senior...

My family came here from Rhode Island when my mother was 18, 37 years ago! I was born and raised here in Ocala, Florida. People from Florida can hardly live here because of the rapid growth, the constant increase in population, and the tearing down of beautiful farms and land for car washes and homes that are not really worth 300+ thousand dollars. To be able to afford to live here I would have to make 20+ an hour. And an employer is hardly ever going to pay that. Can Florida even handle any more of this? When will our city take action on this! It’s really sad to see because Ocala is such a perfect place to be but how it’s looking, not any longer.

The developer secured financing from Huntington National Bank and Nuveen Green Capital. Stark Enterprises will construct Summer Pointe Village, a 454-unit build-to-rent community in Summerfield, Fla. The property will be developed in two phases—of 252 and 202 units—with the first one expected to break ground later this spring, and completion anticipated in the summer of 2026.

OCALA, FL (352today.com) – A blue wave flooded into the auditorium at the McPherson Governmental Campus on Monday, April 22, for a 9 a.m. public hearing before the Marion County Board of County Commissioners. The sea of solidarity were all residents of the On Top of the World (OTOW)...

OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - Developers are building new apartments next to a retirement community, upsetting its residents. Developers with Tillman and Associates Engineering filed a rezoning application, in hopes of changing the 22 acre lot from Community Business to Planned Unit Development. The site is located along Southwest 9th Street...

This is a list of deed transfers of $60,000 or more in Marion County. The list is presented in alphabetical order by subdivision name — if there is a subdivision listed in the deed. If there is no subdivision, or if the subdivision is very small, just "Marion County" is listed. In some cases, there is a subdivision listed but our system is not picking it up. After the subdivision name comes the seller and buyer (presented last name first) and then the sales price.

An Ocala estate in a prestigious community just sold this month for $4.35 million, less than three years after the property sold for under half that amount. The luxury home is located at 3365 NW 85th Terrace, on the 18th Fairway of the Masters Section within the Golden Ocala Golf & Equestrian Club in northwest Ocala. The home is situated just minutes away from both the World Equestrian Center and the Ocala National Golf Club.

A cousin is taking charge at a home in The Villages which has become notorious for hoarding. Mark O’Shea updated the Community Development District 5 Board of Supervisors on Friday about the home at 1889 Blythewood Loop in the Village of Sunset Pointe. The owner, Barbara Packard, claims she...

A set of luxury townhomes is one of the newest additions to the ever-changing residential offering in downtown Ocala. The Watula South townhomes have been under construction in downtown Ocala for over two years. The project is one of several in downtown Ocala developed by the Boyd Group. According to...

As an almost 23-year resident of On Top of the World, I do not believe developers are necessarily greedy, but they are businesses after all. Our developer, in particular, is not building apartments but is rather selling property to others desiring to build apartments, I see this as his right and will be determined by whether they are successful with the rezoning requested, for which there is a process. I do not feel threatened, as some seem to be, by the apartments. People have talked about children riding bikes & skateboards into OTOWs front gates, they are fearful of burglars & undesirable folks entering and I fail to see why the apartments should trigger such fears. Will it add traffic in the area? Probably, but these are things that can be dealt with. I am so glad the doors to Ocala/OTOW were not closed to us when we came here in 2001 and I am happy to welcome new folks to our end of town.

Marcus & Millichap, a commercial real estate brokerage firm specializing in investment sales, financing, research and advisory services, brokers the sale of the Comfort Inn in Ocala, Fla., for $6,615,000. Other terms were not disclosed. "This sale was an encouraging reminder that market challenges still can be navigated for a...

I am very surprised at how you decided not to publish our story about the rezoning of OTOW! This issue is BIG NEWS as it effects every resident that uses SR 200 daily. As anyone can see, the amount of apartment buildings, homes and communities being built, not only will this effect daily travel, soon it will have to accommodate commuters too as they rush to and from work. Building more rental properties without improving the infrastructure is reckless! Police, fire, and other emergency departments will also be effected! Accidents will be more prevalent causing our insurance rates to sore! Delays for emergency vehicles will suffer and deaths will be caused by these delays! Not to mention security issues! Schools being over crowed and more school buses. Especially at OTOW! An adult retirement community will be mostly effected as our way of life will be forever changed! This is BIG NEWS and you choose not to publish it? I think that’s totally irresponsible for a news worthy story to be withheld from your readers!! Perhaps you’re more inclined to publish stories of doom and gloom, rather than preventative stories where people will be informed as to how all of this will effect EVERY SINGLE RESIDENT in this city! And to whom they can contact to maybe slow or even stop this insanity! Greedy developers don’t care about the mayhem they will cause after they’re buildings are complete and they have moved on to reproduce the havoc on another unsuspecting community!.

This is a list of deed transfers of $60,000 or more in Marion County. The list is presented in alphabetical order by subdivision name — if there is a subdivision listed in the deed. If there is no subdivision, or if the subdivision is very small, just "Marion County" is listed. In some cases, there is a subdivision listed but our system is not picking it up. After the subdivision name comes the seller and buyer (presented last name first) and then the sales price.