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Dale Sorensen Real Estate on track for fourth straight $1B year

Even though the island real estate market has slowed since the glory days, Dale Sorensen Real Estate is ...

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Entrepreneur’s ‘360Butler’ venture offers homeowners concierge service

A businessman who has moved here from Miami with a background in packaging rental properties for purchase by ...

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Property values continue to rise here, propelled by ‘raging’ high-end market

Indian River County property values continued upward at a surprising pace in 2023. Even though the year did ...

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Renovated ‘Jones’ house will have new life as museum

A humble cracker house built along the Jungle Trail the year Warren Harding became president is in the ...

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Former Vero star QB brings NFL flavor to youth football camp here

Vero Beach native Shawn O’Dare’s football dreams came true, and he wants football dreams to come true for ...

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Home sales remain steady, prices up in island club communities

Despite continued uncertainty in the real estate market, the island’s club communities had a solid season with sales ...

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Does Sebastian Inlet District owe us millions for sand?

Longtime island resident Bob Bruce, a retired software engineer and entrepreneur and well-known environmental advocate, says the Sebastian ...

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Castaway Cove kid helps lead the Tropical Modern movement in Miami

Architect Paul Fischman’s life has revolved between two wildly divergent cities that share a sub-tropical theme. Born in ...

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Another prime buy rewards Land Trust’s patience

When the Indian River Land Trust snagged a prime, 48-acre, lagoon-front parcel near the Toni Robinson Waterfront Trail ...

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County eager to buy and preserve choice properties

If you know of a beautiful, undeveloped piece of property in your neighborhood – or anywhere else in ...

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‘Proud moment’: Grand Harbor’s beach club renovation caps 3-year, $15M transformation

Three years and three months after taking over ownership of a Grand Harbor Club “that had fallen into ...

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Owners juiced about plans for craft brewery in old packing house

Vero Beach soon will have a third major craft brewery and taproom on the scale of American Icon ...