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Florida Realtor, the Business Magazine of Florida Real Estate and monthly trade publication of Florida Realtors®, recently won nine awards in the 2015 Florida Magazine Association’s (FMA) competition.

CBRE arranged the sale of a prime downtown development site at 100 E. Las Olas Blvd. in the heart of the main business corridor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The 0.88-acre property was acquired from SVP Las Olas Limited Partnership by Kolter Acquisitions, LLC for $17.25 million.

Cushman & Wakefield announced today that it has brokered the sale of Westshore Center, a 216,410-square-foot, Class A office building in Tampa, Florida. Executive Director Mike Davis, Senior Director Rick Brugge, and Senior Director Michael Lerner represented an institutional owner in the transaction. The buyer was Roseview-PMRG Fund I, LLC, a joint venture between The Roseview Group and PM Realty Group (PMRG)

Inc. has announced that RE/MAX Dynamic-The Duncan Duo & Associates has earned the position of 561st on the 2015 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America. They were one of only 159 real estate firms in the nation to appear on the Inc. 5000 and the fastest growing residential real estate sales firm in Tampa Bay. Past companies to make the prestigious list include Microsoft, Oracle and Zappos. This is the second consecutive year RE/MAX Dynamic has made the list, jumping nearly 500 places from the 2014 list in the No. 1,052 spot

Banker Lopez Gassler P.A. is relocating its downtown St. Petersburg office to First Central Tower later this year. The law firm has leased a full floor, 15,296 square feet, at the building. The long term lease was brokered by Mia Jarrell of Colliers International.

CBRE Capital Markets arranged the sale of Hidden River Grande Apartments, a 212-unit waterfront rental community in Tampa, Florida to San Diego-based The Focus Group for $8.3 million. The complex is located at 8024 Hidden River Drive on the Hillsborough River. CBRE represented the seller, NR Investments, in the transaction.

CBRE arranged the sale of Venture Corporate Center, a three-building office community located at 3440 Hollywood Blvd. and 200-300 S. Park Road in Hollywood, Florida. The property, which is improved with three office buildings totaling approximately 253,000 rentable square feet, was acquired from MetLife Real Estate Investors by Dividend Capital Trust

With the release of year-over-year market statistics for the 2nd quarter, we saw trends of consumer confidence in the single family homes sector. Closed sales increased 13.2 percent to 5,383 transactions, and median sale price increased 5.6 percent to $299,900. Meanwhile, median days on market dropped 20.8 percent to 42 days. Also, inventory decreased 7.4 percent to 6,726 active listings, and months’ supply decreased 21.9 percent to 4.5 months

Cushman & Wakefield announced today that it has brokered the sale of Forum Corporate Park II, a 60,777-square-foot Class A office building in Fort Myers, Florida. Senior Director Rick Brugge, Executive Director Mike Davis, Senior Director Michael Lerner, and Songy Highroads Regional Director Robert Brooks represented ownership in the transaction. Holden Properties was the buyer.

CRE Rauch Lupo Robertson, a CRE Florida Partners Company, is pleased to announce the addition of David Walsh to its South Florida team. Walsh has joined CRE as a Multifamily Specialist in our Boca Raton office as Senior Investment Associate. In his new role, Walsh will lead and build the firm’s multi-family businesses in South Florida

CBRE is pleased to announce that José Lobón has been promoted to Vice President. Lobón, who joined CBRE in 2011, is a member of CBRE’s Capital Markets, Institutional Properties team based in Miami. He helps advise many of the largest U.S. real estate investors on their investment, disposition and capitalization strategies.

CBRE has arranged the sale and financing of Rivergate Tower, a Class A, 515,965-square-foot iconic office building located at 400 North Ashley Drive in Tampa, Florida, for an undisclosed price. The sale of Rivergate Tower is the third recent Tampa CBD office tower sale that CBRE has brokered in the last year, following Wells Fargo Plaza and Fifth Third Center.

Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater today announced that the 2015 unclaimed property auction held last Saturday in Jacksonville raised $1.53 million for Florida’s public schools. While entrusted in the state’s care, all unclaimed property funds are placed into the state’s public education trust fund where they support the greater good until claimed.

This week, CFO Jeff Atwater and the Department of Financial Services will host the 2015 Florida Unclaimed Property Auction at the Jacksonville Marriott. Media opportunities begin today, July 30, with the delivery of an unclaimed property check to a local Jacksonville woman. The auction’s public preview will be held Friday, July 31, and the live auction will be held Saturday, August 1. In addition to the media opportunities listed below, interviews can be arranged by request.

Cushman & Wakefield announced today that it has assisted Bridge Development Partners in its efforts to acquire and develop more land for Bridge Point Crossroads (BPC), the Chicago-based developer’s latest industrial project in Hialeah Gardens, Florida.

Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and the Florida Bureau of Unclaimed Property are gearing up for their next auction Saturday in Jacksonville. The items featured are taken from safe deposit boxes that go unclaimed by the families of people who died in Florida.

Cushman & Wakefield announced today that Director John K. Criddle has brokered ±30,000 square feet of new office leases at Cypress Executive Center, a six-story, 140,635-square-foot office building located at 1901 West Cypress Road.

CBRE arranged the sale of University Commons, a 79,998-square-foot, multi-tenant retail center located at 6702-6852 N. University Drive in Tamarac, Florida. Bar Invest Group, Inc. purchased the property for $10,700,000. The seller was University Commons, LLC, affiliated with Boca Raton-based Pebb Enterprises, which hired CBRE to market the asset for sale and negotiate the transaction

CBRE Capital Markets’ Debt & Structured Finance originated $13.75 million in financing for PointOne Holdings’ $17.8 million acquisition of Southwinds Stockbridge, a 240-unit multifamily residential community in the greater Atlanta, Georgia, metropolitan area. PointOne Holdings will rebrand the community as Southwinds Point

Franklin Street announces the sale of Wildwood Villa Apartments located at 600 Wildwood Way in Clearwater, Florida for $810,000. This sales price represents $45,000 per unit. Zachary Ames, Darron Kattan, Kevin Kelleher, and Robert Goldfinger of Franklin Street, represented both the seller, a private partnership based out of Tampa Bay and the buyer, a Canadian-based investor, during the transaction.