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TOP Davidson Realty New Build Transactions of 2022

March 23, 2023

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Posted by in Featured Listings, New Home Construction, News

Davidson Realty Agents prepared for thousands of new home buyers moving to the greater North Florida area in 2022. Through builder liaising, community tours, and interactive selling tools, Davidson Realty enhanced our local market expertise, especially with new home builds. St. Johns and Duval Counties are experiencing a big boost in new construction with the demand for affordable housing. We are pleased to share our top 5 new build transactions from 2022.

 

 

475 Back Creek Drive, Saint Augustine, FL 32092

In the heart of Trailmark, you’ll find this beautiful one-of-a-kind Mastercraft home backing up to Sixmile Creek. Shelley & Tim Nemethy were able to sell this home for $762,000.00, making this home the highest seller of 2022.

 

142 Red Twig Way, Saint Augustine, FL 32092

Located near the World Golf Village area in the tucked-away neighborhood of Trailmark, you’ll find this charming Drees home. This home blends in with nature and has exceptional amenities, giving buyers the best of both worlds. Mirtha Barzaga sold this house for $690,680!

 

188 Shinnecock Drive, Saint Johns, FL 32259

Located in the ever-growing RiverTown Community, you’ll find this 5-bedroom, 4-bath home. With access to some of the best schools in St. Johns County, it is the perfect place to raise a family. Terri Apocada sold this home for $646,182.

 

76 Ladyslipper Drive, Saint Johns, FL 32259

Sold on the first day of June, this beautiful Mattamy build is located in a quiet, secluded area of Rivertown-Watersong. WaterSong is an exclusive neighborhood for Active Adults 55+ that is located within RiverTown. Giving its homeowners a modern, resort-style life in an unspoiled natural setting. Mirtha Barzaga assisted her clients with the purchase of this beautiful home for $600,599.

 

11134 Engineering Way, Jacksonville, FL 32256

This one-of-a-kind, Providence build located in ETown captivated buyers with its luxury features and family-friendly environment. This home is conveniently located between the St. Johns Town Center and Flagler Center on 9B (1-295), just minutes away from everything Jacksonville has to offer. With the help of Caitlyn Hawkins, this beautiful home sold for $590,000.

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TOP DAVIDSON REALTY SALES OF 2022

March 8, 2023

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Posted by in Featured Listings, News

For more than thirty years, Davidson Realty has established a reputation as one of the most respected real estate brokerages in Northeast Florida. We attribute much of this success to our culture of putting people above everything. In 2022, Davidson Realty served thousands of clients across Northeast Florida with more than forty agents. “The Davidson Realty team is strong and mighty! There isn’t a corner of the First Coast that our agents haven’t served and we are proud to have the trust and confidence of the Northeast Florida community,” shares Davison Realty President, Sherry Davidson. We are proud to share some of our top sales for 2022. 

 

10 10th Street Unit #7, Atlantic Beach, Florida 32233

This one-of-a-kind, ground-floor oceanfront Cloister condo captivated potential buyers with its newly renovated interior and ideal location in Atlantic Beach. With the help of Caitlyn Hawkins, this beautiful home sold for more than $1,270,000 cash in just fourteen days! 

 

121 Newport Lane, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida 32082

Located in the exclusive Harbour Island enclave in Marsh Landing, you’ll find this charming Mediterranean, Kevin Gray custom home.  Suzy Evans and Sam Davidson got their clients an all-cash offer of $2,332,500! 

 

152 Corbata Lane, Saint Augustine, Florida 32095

Located on a quiet cul-de-sac behind the gates of the golf community of Palencia, this luxury custom home is complete with a stunning outdoor kitchen overlooking a private backyard. Suzy Evans helped her clients sell this home for more than $1,250,000. 

 

2460 Den Street, Saint Augustine, Florida 32092

Listed by Shelley and Tim Nemethy, this luxurious custom home in the King and Bear community sold for $1,299,000 in June. This spacious home had captivating features including a gourmet kitchen and an enormous screened lanai overlooking the green on the 2nd hole. 

 

6148 Racetrack Road, St. Johns, Florida 32259

This commercial land sale was listed and sold by Sam Davidson for $1,400,000 in just thirty-two days. The property’s location was just one of the many things that made this plot so attractive. It’s located directly across from the new Bartram Pointe retail center at the entrance to Bartram Springs, adjacent to Gate’s Durbin Park PUD, and only a half mile from Gatlin Developments’ new $250 million dollar mixed-use project. 

 

2022 proved to be another successful year for Davidson Realty. If you are interested in buying or selling a home in Northeast Florida, call the experts at Davidson Realty today at (904) 940-5000.

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Fantastic Finish – Davidson Realty 2022 Awards

February 24, 2023

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Posted by in Awards, Events, News, Staff, Top Agents

Each year, the Davidson Realty family feels a renewed sense of gratitude for the Northeast Florida community and each other. In addition to providing expert real expert services to the Northeast Florida community, Davidson Realty held more than thirty charitable and customer appreciation events in 2022, including the Davidson Cares Clay Day event which raised more than $100,000 for local organizations. The 2022 Davidson Realty calendar stayed full with more than twenty-eight training sessions, twenty-six sales meetings, eighteen bible studies, twelve birthday celebrations, and ten pizza and notes sessions. Davidson Realty also proudly welcomed ten new agents to the brokerage. 

 

The annual Davidson Realty Awards Banquet is a special night dedicated to celebrating and reflecting on all that was achieved in the past year. This year, Davidson Realty agents and staff voted for a banquet theme of “Party Through the Decades” and everyone was inspired to dress up accordingly for the occasion. The Tringali Barn in St. Augustine, Florida was decorated with centerpieces and party favors from the 20s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, including lifesize Rubix Cubes and old-fashion car cut outs. The party featured a popcorn and candy bar, build your own root beer float station, Italian food and desserts, and a custom decades cake from Cinottis. A big thank you to the awards committee: Andrea Gallagher, Matt Burkhart, and Mirtha Barzaga who spent months creatively planning. On the day of the event, the committee had additional help and support from Liz Pappaceno and Andrea’s parents (Mike and Mary DelPrete). It gives us great pleasure to acknowledge the hardworking agents and their accomplishments in 2022. 

 

Michele Wiedenhaefer

Davidson Property Management – Most Rentals in 2022

 

 

Terri Apodaca

Davidson Property Management – Most Properties Referred in 2022

4 Million Dollars Closed

3 Million Dollars Sold

 

Malaika Carew

Davidson Property Management – Rookie Agent of the Year

 

 

Bonnie Weinstein

5 Years of Service

4 Million Dollars Closed

3 Million Dollars Sold

 

Matt Burkhart

10 Years of Service

 

Judy Kashou

15 Years of Service

 

Jennifer Todd

3.5 Million Dollars Closed

 

Reba Barkley

4 Million Dollars Closed

 

Candy Gil

3.5 Million Dollars Closed

3 Million Dollars Sold

 

Margherite Myers

3.5 Million Dollars Closed

3.5 Million Dollars Sold

 

Caitlyn Hawkins

3.5 Million Dollars Closed

4.5 Million Dollars Sold

 

Lynn Whitley

4 Million Dollars Closed

4 Million Dollars Sold

 

Ron Savarese

4 Million Dollars Closed

4.5 Million Dollars Sold

 

Liz Pappaceno

4.5 Million Dollars Closed

5 Million Dollars Sold

 

Suzy Evans

6 Million Dollars Closed

6 Million Dollars Sold

$7,500 Bonus

 

Rebecca Schaffer

6 Million Dollars Closed

7.5 Million Dollars Sold

 

Mirtha Barzaga

15 Years of Service

14 Million Dollars Closed

14 Million Dollars Sold

2022 Closing Agent of the Year

2022 Sales Agent of the Year

2022 Listing Agent of the Year

$10,000 Bonus – 7th year

 

TEAMS

Shelley & Tim Nemethy

15 Million Dollars Closed

13 Million Dollars Sold

$7,500 Bonus – 3rd year

 

2022 Special Recognition Awards 

Shirley Barber

The Flower Power Value People First Award – the first to always help anyone, anytime and does it with a smile. She treats the people and this building with such reverence and respect like we were her own family. She does it so quietly and unassumingly. Great example of always putting others first!

 

Rebecca Schaffer

The Break on Through to the Other Side Break Out Year Award – Doubled her business from last year in closings and sales!

 

 

Amy Thorton 

The Totally Tubular Team Player Award – instrumental in helping Sherry with the reconciliations and various accounting tasks in 2022.

 

We would also like to recognize our amazing staff for all their support throughout the year: Shirley Barber, Matt Burkhart, Matt Davidson, Sam Davidson, Rochelle Richardson, and Andrea Gallagher. 

 

Additionally, we’d like to thank our property management team who help take care of all our owners and tenants: Laura Hendricks, Amy Thornton, and Judy Kashou.

 

The Davidson Realty Team is proud of all the hard work displayed in 2022 and is eager to witness the success that will come in 2023. These accolades would not be possible without the trust and loyalty of Davidson Realty clients. Thank you for choosing Davidson Realty for your real estate needs. If you are interested in experiencing the Davidson difference, call us today at (904) 940-5000. 

 

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Congratulations to all our Top Producers for January 2023!

February 20, 2023

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Posted by in Top Agents

January 2023 has started out with a bang.  Our team is hard at work selling lots of real estate as usual.  We want to congratulate our TOP Producers for a successful January!  Our top performers have years and years of expertise and have seen their fair share of some pretty crazy shake of the head or laugh out loud moments.  Please read on as they share the funniest, zaniest, or most off the wall experiences they have had in their real estate business.

 

 

 

 

Our Top Producer and Top Overall Sales Agent for January is Mirtha Barzaga with $5 Million in closings.

 

 

 

Mirtha – Do you want to hear about the time I walked into a house that was supposed to be unoccupied and a couple of teenagers one being a relative of the seller decided to have a little afternoon delight in the uncle’s house while he was out of town?

 

Or maybe not, I’ll tell you about the Gopher Tortoise instead.

 

About 5 years ago I had to relocate a gopher tortoise larger than 2 feet out from under a house I had for sale which backed up to conservation.  The tortoise had created a tunnel under the house that went all the way from the front to the back.

These tortoises are a protected species and I had to go through the wildlife department to obtain the protocol that was involved in relocating them.  We had to hire someone licensed to catch it and relocate it.  After that we had to get a structural engineering company to come out to the house to do a sonogram study in order to figure out if the foundation had been compromised and to know how much of the tunnel had to be filled in with concrete.

This was a very lengthy process not to mention costly in getting this entire incident resolved.

I guess you can say there is never a dull moment in Real Estate.

 

 

 

 

 

Our Top Producing and Top Sales Team for the month is The Nemethy Group with Shelley and Tim Nemethy with $750,000 in closings.

 

 

 

Shelley and Tim – Having been Realtors for many years, the zany stories seem to flow in new frontiers! It’s difficult to narrow in on just one, so we have created a Nemethy Group poem. 

 

A beep awakes the slumbering team as their email takes off with problems and pleas.

 

“Good morning!” says one. “I have a slight problem. A tree has fallen overnight and a roofer I’m calling!”

With the closing scheduled and the walk through approaching, mother nature had other plans with a tree now encroaching!

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Northeast Florida Market Update

February 16, 2023

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Posted by in News, Northeast Florida Market Trends

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

Henry Ford

 

In the 2023-2026 Florida and Metro Forecast, Dr. Sean Snaith, the director of the University of Central Florida Institute of Central Forecasting said “The U.S. economy is either in or on the brink of a recession. Because of the forecasted shape of the recession: a gradual decline into recession and 12 or more months in the downturn followed by a gradual climb out of recession, we have dubbed the recession the Pasta Bowl Recession.” If you haven’t heard him speak, take the opportunity. He is very smart and very funny.

 

A few interesting predictions from the forecast are:

 

Real Gross State Product will mildly contract during the recession as growth will slow to -1.3% in 2023, turning positive in 2024 and accelerating in 2025 to reach 1.7% by 2026.

 

The unemployment rate was 2.9% in 2022. The recession will push up the rate to 4.6% in 2023, and to 5.8% in 2024, before easing slightly to 5.4% in 2025 and 5.0% in 2026.

 

Housing starts were 192,294 in 2022 with starts decelerating to 133,829 in 2023 and 134,755 in 2024 before ticking up to 149,920 in 2025 and 152,865 in 2026.

 

The Northeast Florida Association of Realtors (NEFAR) market stats for January 2023 show the median sales price is stable, closed sales are down, pending sales are up and inventory is up slightly from last month.

 

The median sales price of $330,000 is down 2.4% from December and up 3.4% from last January. There were 1,525 closings which is down 30% from last month and 33% from last year. This reflects the last several months of very low buyer demand.

 

There were 2,248 pending sales in January. This was the most since August of 2022. Nationally, pending sales increased for the first time since May.

 

“This recent low point in home sales activity is likely over,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. “Mortgage rates are the dominant factor driving home sales, and recent declines in rates are clearly helping to stabilize the market.”

 

There were 3,451 new listings in January which is 32% higher than the previous month and 19% higher than last year. The active inventory went from 6,231 last month to 6,403. When you read how much inventory has increased, keep in mind how many of the new listings were absorbed. There is plenty of demand and the spring buying season looks to be warming up.

 

I love this time of year with March Madness coming, Baseball Spring Training starting and the real estate market getting back to a more normal rhythm. If we can help you with any of your real estate needs, please let us know.

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