Daytona Beach Real Estate Blog: November 2009

For this week's Speechless Sunday photo (with words =P), I'm sharing a bit of fun we had in an oceanfront park and playground in New Smyrna Beach a couple of month's ago. My daughter and I, and a couple of friends decided to stop by a little playground located directly on the ocean. It's so much fun to do silly things =)  So here's a shot of my daughter on this playground.  =)

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This is Lisa Hill's real estate blog, for buyers and sellers of real estate in the Daytona Beach/Port Orange/Ponce Inlet Florida areas. But today we're going to venture out of our little corner of the world, and take a look at some fun geography facts. I think these are pretty fascinating, and I hope you enjoy them too =)

For Part 1 of this series, go to Interesting World Geography Facts (Part 1). Some Extra Fun on Lisa Hill's Real Estate Blog.

Now for World Geography part 2...

• New York City was termed "The Big Apple" by touring jazz musicians in the 1930s who used the slang term "apple" for any town or city where they were playing. But to play New York City was to play the Big Time... "The Big Apple".

• The real name for Los Angeles is actually El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciumcula. By shortening all of this to L.A., it becomes only 3.63% of the true size of it's full name!

• The oldest city in existence anywhere, is Damascus, Syria, which was flourishing about 2000 years before Rome was founded in 753 B.C.

• Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world that is actually located on TWO continents!

• The Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, has a depth of about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles (12.261 meters). The hole was dug for scientific research, and turned some very unexpected discoveries, one of which was a giant hydrogen deposit. The hydrogen deposit was so massive that the mud in the hole was "boiling" from it! This hole is officially the deepest hole ever drill by man.

• In the U.S., your chances of finding an unpaved road is 1%. In Canada, your chances of finding an unpaved road is 75%! (Wonder why? Just take a look at a globe!)

• Pitcairn Island in Polynesia, at just 1.75 square miles (4.53 sq km) is the smallest island in the world that is also a country. (I found this one especially cool)

• There is a city called Rome on every continent. Rome, Italy was the 1st city to reach a population of 1 million people, in 133 B.C.

• Antactica is the driest place on Earth. (refer to part 1 for additional Antarctic facts) The valleys of the Antarctic, near Ross Island have seen no rainfall for 2 million years! (Whoa!)

• Irony to follow the Anarctic facts... Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests. (????)

• Spain means "the land of rabbits" (LOL)

• There is a town name Tidikelt in Algeria, in the Sahara Desert, that received no rainfall for an entire decade.

• The smallest sovereign entity in the world has a population of 80... 20 less than the Vatican. It also has 2 tennis courts. (Things that make you go "hmmm?") It's the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M.), located in Rome, Italy. This small entity is a sovereign entity under international law, just like the Vatican.

• The U.S., Eisenhower Interstate System requires that 1 in every 5 miles must be straight so they can be used as airstrips in times of war, or in case of emergency.

• In Venezuela, the water of Angel Falls drops 3.212 feet (979 meters)... it's 15 times higher than Niagara Falls.

Looks like everyone can give thanks for their meals... in whatever form they may come ;-)  Happy Thanksgiving!

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For anyone who has moved to the Daytona Beach area, and for our visitors who are considering a move to the Daytona Beach area; this weekend has an extra special, post-Thanksgiving day treat... a little something extra for which we can be thankful.

On Saturday, November 28 at 7:00 p.m., The Daytona Beach Symphony Society (now in it's 58th season!) will be bringing to us, a special performance by the Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company! This performance will be at the Peabody Audorium, on Peabody Auditorium Blvd., Daytona Beach.

Rather than try to explain the exceptional beauty and talent, view one of the videos below.

For tickets, call Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000, or the Daytona Beach Symphony Society at 386-253-2901.

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I'm now on post number 6 (plus the additional post that compiled the information of the first 4) of my blogging series for each city in East Volusia County, providing real estate information on the available MLS listings; the types of properties, the number available, and the price ranges for each group.

For this post we're featuring the city of Ormond Beach, located to the north of Daytona Beach, with the city of Holly Hill in between Daytona Beach and Ormond Beach (but Holly Hill does not extend over the bridge/Intracoastal Waterway, to the "beachside" which is what Volusia County locals call the area between the Intracoastal and the Atlantic Ocean. It's actually a peninsula. And the city of Ormond Beach DOES extend to the beachside. Actually, Ormond Beach spans the largest area from west to east; greater than any of the other cities in the Daytona Beach area. There are acres and acres of farmland and country houses as you reach the west edge of the city... past the outlying subdivisions, all west of I-95. From I-95 to the Intracoastal you'll find many different types of houses, duplexes, condos and subdivisions. There are also some varied subdivisions(acreage, lake frontage, golf & more) as you travel north on U.S.1, all the way to the point where I-95 makes a turn and crosses U.S.1.

And then there are the beachside homes... so many beautiful, oceanfront condos, and houses within walking distance to the river or the ocean. And then there's the wonderful Ormond Library, the many parks and nature reserves and the fantastic Tomoka State Park on the beautiful Tomoka River.

All that being said, the previously mentioned real estate listings are found in the chart below. All information is from the Daytona Beach Area Association of REALTORS® Multiple Listing Service (MLS). Use this chart to get an idea of what it costs to buy a house, condo, duplex/townhouse... bearing in mind the location: some are on the ocean or river.

If you're considering buying or selling real estate in South Daytona or any of the city in East Volusia county, make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa Hill for all your real estate needs.

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It's Speechless Sunday again. And I LOVE this shot =)   For all you real estate buyers who are looking to buy a home in beautiful, tropical, sunny Florida, I'd love to help with all your real estate needs!

If you're a real estate buyer, or a real estate seller, in the Daytona Beach or Port Orange areas; or anywhere in East Volusia county, I'd love to help with all your real estate needs.

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(Order prints of this photo)

I'm now on post number 5 (plus the additional post that compiled the information of the first 4) of my blogging series for each city in East Volusia County, providing real estate information on the available MLS listings; the types of properties, the number available, and the price ranges for each group.

For this post we're featuring the city of South Daytona, located to the immediate south of Daytona Beach, with the exception that South Daytona does not crossover to the peninsula/beachside/east side of the Intracoastal. But South Daytona does hold some incredible, brand new condos with stunning views of the Intracoastal.

That being said, the previously mentioned real estate listings are found in the chart below. All information is from the Daytona Beach Area Association of REALTORS® Multiple Listing Service (MLS).

If you're considering buying or selling real estate in South Daytona or any of the city in East Volusia county, make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa Hill for all your real estate needs.

This week's photo is really just a follow-up to this past Sunday's photo. It's the same bird from Sunday's blog post, standing in the shallow water at sunset, taken by my friend Nick (fully copyrighted). In this photo, I LOVE the perfect shadow that's reflecting in the water. And I decided that since I had so much trouble deciding which shot to use last week, I should go ahead and share the other one with you today =D

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And if you're interested in buying or selling real estate in the area of Daytona Beach, Florida, make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa Hill with Adams Cameron & Co., REALTORS®.

Over the last couple of weeks I've been providing real estate updates for East Volusia County, going city-by-city. I'm not finished yet but so far I've provided real estate data from the Daytona Beach Area Association of REALTORS and Multiple Listing Service for the cities of...

• Ponce Inlet: Houses, Condos, Duplexes and Townhouses for sale.

• Port Orange: Houses, Condos, Duplexes and Townhouses for sale.

• Daytona Beach: Houses, Condos, Duplexes and Townhouses for sale.

• Daytona Beach Shores: Houses, Condos, Duplexes and Townhouses for sale.

Each of these cities have very different properties and prices ranges, depending on whether or not they're located on the ocean, the Intracoastal, in a deed-restricted community, or any number of locations that effect the individual property values.

Coming up, I'll provide the listings and details available for Ormond Beach, Holly Hill, South Daytona, and Ormond-by-the-Sea. So check back soon!

If you're interested in moving to Central Florida; more specifically, the Daytona Beach area (all of these cities are in the Daytona Beach area), make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa Hill for all your real estate needs.

For specific real estate information, try the following links:

• Information for Real Estate Buyers

• Information for Real Estate Sellers

• Real Estate Bio for Lisa Hill, Professional REALTOR®.

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It's Speechless Sunday, and once again, my post is not speechless. But I will keep this one short and sweet  =)  Once again, my friend Nick (Nickrun on DeviantArt.com) has captured the silhouette of a beautiful bird, in a lake at sunset... two, no make that three, of my favorite things! Lakes, Sunsets and Birds =D

I hope you've enjoyed the photo (which IS copyrighted!) and if you're interested in purchasing any of Nick's images, you can checkout his work by following the link above.

And if you're interested in buying or selling real estate in the area of Daytona Beach Florida, make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa Hill with Adams Cameron & Co., REALTORS.

Lisa Hill is a Daytona Beach Native, and full-time REALTOR with experience selling every type of real estate in every city in East Volusia County and beyond.

Make a Smart Choice today and contact Lisa Hill for YOUR real estate needs!

We're now on post number 4, as I provide you with the current climate of the Volusia County real estate market, based on the active listings on the market, based on information from the Daytona Beach Area Association of REALTORS® and Multiple Listing Service (MLS); with this post focusing on the current real estate listings in Port Orange, Florida.

As I've stated in many of my previous posts, I'm a Daytona Beach Native, which makes it much easier for me to excel in my real estate profession. I've sold all types of real estate in every city in East Volusia County, and beyond.

The following chart contains the active real estate listings that are currently on the market in Port Orange FL. You'll find the types of properties, how many are available of each type, and the price range for each type of property.

Port Orange is a beautiful, family-friendly city with many things to do. Call or e-mail me today for a list of houses, condos, duplexes, townhouses and more, from the Daytona Beach Area Multiple Listing Service. I can make your real estate search as easy as possible, by having our automated system programmed with your personal real estate requirements, which will be automatically e-mailed to you every morning, as soon as they come on the market. You never have to worry about missing out on your dream home!

www.PortOrangeRealEstateSales.com

Lisa Hill is proud to be a Port Orange resident! To buy or sell real estate in Port Orange Floriida, make A Smart Choice and contact Lisa Hill for all your real estate needs.

If you decide to take a stroll around the lighthouse, and parks, and marshes, and jetty of Ponce Inlet... and you walk by or even better... you decide to take a tour of the Ponce Inlet Marine Science Center... just outside you'll find this adorable little sign. I think it's perfect, even if it is a bit silly ;-)

Have some fun and visit the Ponce Inlet Marince Science Center!  =)

If you're interested in buying or selling real estate in Ponce Inlet Florida, make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa Hill for all your real estate needs.

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This is my 3rd post in the last week, presenting our active real estate listings for each city, from the Daytona Beach Area Multiple Listing Service (MLS). This post features one photo of beautiful Daytona Beach Florida, and the listing information that any Daytona Beach real estate buyers may need. Bear in mind, the data here is only the basics of what's available. but I'll be happy to provide extensive information on any houses, condos, duplexes or townhouses in Daytona Beach Florida.

The following chart (again; these are just the basics) contains the type of properties that are currently available for sale, how many of each type are available, and the price range for each category. You'll notice a drastic difference in prices due to the location of a particular listing. You can choose a small, affordable home or a large, luxury house or condo on the Intracoastal Waterway, or the Atlantic Ocean. The possibilities are endless...

If you're interested in buying (or selling) real estate in Daytona Beach Florida, I'd love to help. For more information, or to be added to our automated Multiple Listing System (MLS), feel free to call or e-mail me with your personal specifications and you'll soon be receiving daily listing updates via e-mail, as soon as new listings come on the market! =)

For all your real estate needs, make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa Hill.

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Well, it's that time again. It's time for a "Wordless Wednesday" photo. And as usual... my post is not wordless. lol. BUT, I'm not going to tell you about the photo ;-)  The photo is just a bonus, to show you a little something from the city of Daytona Beach Shores. The rest of this post is a Daytona Beach Shores real estate update, for anyone who's interested in buying real estate in beautiful Daytona Beach Shores... (or selling real estate in beautifu Daytona Beach Shores!)

And now for the recent list of available Daytona Beach Shores MLS condos, houses and duplexes/townhouses (from the Daytona Beach area Multiple Listing Service-MLS).

For each type of Daytona Beach Shores listing on the market, you'll find the number of properties on the market, and the price range from lowest to highest.

If you're interested in buying (or selling) real estate in Daytona Beach Shores, I'd love to help! Call or e-mail me for a list of condos, houses or multi-family homes in Daytona Beach Shores, that will meet your specific needs.

And don't forget to ask me about our automated MLS system that will allow me to save your profile and needs, and have listings, details and photo updates sent directly to you each morning, as soon as new MLS listings come on the market.

Make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa Hill, Daytona Beach Shores REALTOR®, for all your real estate needs. <

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I've been hearing rumors of this, but this is the first definitive information I've read. Thanks to Ken Cook for this.

OK. So as usual, this is not spechless =P 

Happy Sunday! Once again, I'm sharing a photo by my friend Nick. I guess it pays to know some people ;-)  I love his photos! FYI, most of his photos are NOT in the public domain. He's just allowing me to use them in my blogs, so please remember there are copyright laws! If you're interested in purchasing any of Nick's photos, you can find his work on www.DeviantArt.com. I've taken you directly to his work in the embedded DeviantArt link. And I'm sure you'll be seeing more of his work on my blogs in the future ;-)

So for today's photo, I thought this was appropriate for Sunday. I like the way this cross is not perfectly painted, or perfectly aligned, and untouched by any photo softtware. It's not perfect.... like us. The very reason for the cross!  =)

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This week I got a call from a past client who previously bought a beautiful oceanfront house in Ponce Inlet Florida. They're still in the planning stages of consolidating their real estate holdings, so we haven't placed their fabulous house on the market yet, but since their home is so close to the incredible Ponce Inlet lighthouse, I made a little detour after our appointment yesterday. As you've probably noticed from some of my previous posts, (and the fact that I was born here) this is certainly not my first visit to the Ponce Inlet lighthouse area. But it's always a fun visit, and I never seem to tire of taking pictures of our fantastic lighthouse! So enjoy one of my newest lighthouse photos, and if you're interested in buying or selling real estate in Ponce Inlet Florida, here's some recent real estate data...

Ponce Inlet Real Estate: Active Listings, number currently on the market, and asking prices for each category...

*All content, including the photo, the logos, and the chart, is owned and copyrighted by Lisa Hill. The llittle copyright logo is under Public Domain.

You can thank Russel Ray for this one. He actually visited EVERY one of the 5,737 (which grew to 6,035 before he finished) groups on Active Rain, and created a short list of 100 groups that would be good for anyone to join... especially our new members.

This is a fantastic, selfless idea! I personally love it, even though it's going to take me quite a bit of time to check out these 100 groups... which make is even more amazing that Russel went through all 6,035 of them! Now enjoy Russel's post below =)

It's Wednesday, so it's time to enjoy some of the beauty in the world around us. But this is a real estate blog. So instead of the usual odd, or beautiful, or unique, or silly type of photo I feature each week; this week we're going to stick to this subject. And it is still beautiful. But it's also part of a house I have listed for sale in Daytona Beach, FL *wink, wink*  So enjoy this photo.... then if you care to, you can follow the links to view ALL the photos of this house on my real estate web site. Now doesn't this sparkling, screened pool look inviting? And you can walk to the beach too! (Only $184,900)

To sell real estate in Daytona Beach FL, make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa Hill.

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This is Lisa Hill's real estate blog, for buyers and sellers of real estate in the Daytona Beach/Port Orange/Ponce Inlet Florida areas. But today we're going to venture out of our little corner of the world, and take a look at some fun geography facts. I think these are pretty fascinating, and I hope you enjoy them too =)

• More than half of the the U.S. coastline is in Alaska.

• The Amazon Rain Forest produces more than 20% of the world's oxygen supply. (Good reason to protect it!)

• The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean, that more than 100 miles away from the mouth of the river, fresh water can be dipped out of the ocean. 
  

• One more Amazon fact... The volume of water in the Amazon River is greater than the next 8 (yes, that's EIGHT) largest rivers in the world combined, AND more than 3 times (yep, THREE times) the flow of all rivers in the U.S.

• Of all the world's ice, 90% of it covers Antarctica. This same ice also represents 70% of all the world's fresh water.

• As if the Antarctica ice and water stats aren't significant enough... Antarctica is by it's nature, actually a desert! Even with all that ice and water, the average annual precipitation is about 2 inches! It's the driest place on Earth, with an absolute humidity that is lower than the Gobi desert.

• The country of Brazil got it's name from the nut; not the other way around.

• Canada has more lakes than all the lakes in the rest of the world, combined. AND the name Canada is an Indian word which means "Big Village". =)

• Except for Warsaw, Poland... Chicago has the world's largest Polish population.

• Woodward Avenue in Detroit Michigan, was the first paved road, anywhere! Thus, it has the designation of M-1.

• Ohio has no natural lakes. Every one is man-made.

• The first business was setup in St. Paul Minnesota. But it was not originally called St. Paul Minnesota. It was originally called "Pig's Eye"! (lol) Why? Because the man who setup that first business there was named Pierre 'Pig's Eye' Parrant. =)
  

And that's enough for today's lesson in fascinating geography facts. Some even cooler facts are soon to come! =D

Now back to the real nature of my blog... that being real estate, if you're interested in buying or selling real estate in the area of Daytona Beach, FL, I'd love to help.

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To make a Smart Choice for all your Daytona Beach or Port Orange real estate needs, contact Lisa Hill

And to learn more about Lisa Hill, a Daytona Beach Native, and professional REALTOR®

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