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With concrete and steel, state armors island to withstand a 100-year storm

Traffic is flowing freely again on north A1A near the Sebastian Inlet after a year and a half ...

Real Estate

Builder meets COVID challenge with clean indoor air features

A Brevard builder founded by two schoolteachers with $10,000 between them in the 1980s that expanded to Indian ...

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Downtown Vero gets its first new office building in a decade

The first new Class-A office building in Downtown Vero Beach in more than a decade is going up ...

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Commercial property owners, hit by pandemic, likely to see property tax reduction in 2021

Commercial property owners on the island and around the county whose businesses were hurt by the pandemic stand ...

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32963 real estate has record summer

The summer of 2020 has been the busiest ever for 32963 barrier island real estate – a record-breaking ...

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$25 million sale breaks record for island residences

The largest house on the barrier island was sold to a California buyer for $25 million last week, ...

Real Estate

John’s Island Real Estate broker ID’s new stream of high-end buyers

The real estate market in John’s Island took a hit during the shutdown but came through in substantially ...

Real Estate

Renewed island real estate activity sees more listings, contracts and closings

Even after a multi-week shutdown of the local economy that hit the real estate business along with most ...

Real Estate

Property values rise more than $1B in county

Property values in Indian River County went up more than $1 billion between January 2019 and January 2020, ...

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Local real estate market comes roaring back from slowdown

Real estate activity here has come roaring back from a brief COVID-19 lull, the upsurge driven in part ...

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2 local banks capture $79 million to provide paychecks to workers here

CenterState Bank Executive VP Chris Bieber was in the middle of an interview with Vero Beach 32963 when ...

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Island real estate market remains active despite coronavirus

While the island is quieter than normal for this time of year, real estate brokers are still showing ...