Jacksonville Archives : Brian Tuttle

Listed and Sold in Three Days! Next! Jacksonville Real Estate Moves Fast

Brian Tuttle — Sat, 02 May 2020 13:00:40 +0000

Update: UNDER CONTRACT in THREE DAYS!

Freshly face-lifted home in the heart of St Nicholas! Listen to the birds sing while you entertain in the huge backyard with pecan trees, crepe myrtles, a pergola and a giant bougainvillea.

Plenty of room for pets, playgrounds or your pop-up camper. Inside, there’s new Carpet throughout, new Ceramic plank tile flooring, counter-top and sink / fixtures in the kitchen, and a new vanity, sink and lighting in the bathroom. Giant Picture window and windowed ”office” space help bring the outside, inside.

Interested? Call YOUR Jacksonville Realtor, Brian Tuttle at 904-219-3891

I would be HONORED to help you or yours buy, sell, or invest in Real Estate.

See more here:

https://www.flexmls.com/share/3KOLr/1790-MAYFAIR-RD-JACKSONVILLE-FL-32207

Thanks for reading!

About me: my name is Brian Tuttle, and I am a Licensed Jacksonville Realtor. While I speak for myself here, I work with Keller Williams Jacksonville and would be honored to speak with you about your Jacksonville Real Estate needs. I can be reached at 904-219-3891 or brian@briantuttle.org

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Jacksonville Real Estate Market Stats Week April 18th 2020

Brian Tuttle — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 18:00:20 +0000

There’s a lot of uncertainty, but rates are low and people (a lot of people) are buying and selling houses right now. Here are the Jacksonville Real Estate Market Stats for the past week, run on April 18th 2020:

918 New listings came onto market
750 Houses went under contract
710 Transactions CLOSED (Whoohoo!)

What does that mean for you? It means that even in the current environment, record-low mortgage rates mean it’s your money goes further. Important, no matter which side of the transaction you’re on.

Thanks for reading!

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Downtown Jacksonville Implosion Makes Room for Change

Brian Tuttle — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 21:51:50 +0000

https://briantuttle.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20190124_135423-2.mp4

So, maybe not quite as cool as the actual implosion video, but still pretty cool. That’s a big pile of Jacksonville history, making room for Jacksonville’s future.l

And it looks sort of fun…

For those that have no idea what this is: this is what is left of the old Courthouse and City Hall Annex building in Downtown Jacksonville. It was demolished (imploded) last weekend, and now it’s time to clean up.

Thanks for reading.

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Jacksonville and Northeast Florida in 2019

Brian Tuttle — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 18:53:46 +0000

The Jax Daily Record has a nice round-up of plans, projections, and ‘things’ that will happen in the region in 2019. They think that there are some pretty exciting stuff is in store for Jacksonville and NE Florida.

Some items they note:

All City Council seats, and the Mayor’s office, are up for grabs
New construction projects are slated for the Northbank, Southbank, LaVilla, and Brooklyn areas.
The Hart Bridge ramp is being removed to make room for Shad Khan’s development plans
New land is being made available for sale- specifically, land currently owned by the Skinner and Davis families.
Historic neighborhoods are seeing new development / resurgence (San Marco, Murray Hill, Brooklyn, Springfield, etc)
e-commerce continues to grow (holy cow- have you seen the size of those amazon.com warehouses?)
Unemployment in Jacksonville, slightly better than the national average and under 3%, is probably not sustainable
Southeastern Grocers emerged from bankruptcy, but ownership has changed hands as part of that process. The plans of the new owners should be made public in 2019.
Jax will have two new public companies: SharedLabs and LocatorX (I was aware of SharedLabs, but not LocatorX- their intro video is pretty impressive)

There’s more, but these were the ones that jumped out at me. My take is that, if we can, nationally, get through this recent uncertainty without too much damage, NE Florida and Jacksonville will have a great 2019.

Jacksonville labor market looking stronger in 2019: Jax Daily Record

Brian Tuttle — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:57:45 +0000

The Jax Daily Record takes a look at the latest labor report from ManPowerGroup and points out that the Jacksonville labor market looks, well, pretty darned good for 2019!

Hiring expectations are high, with almost a third of companies responding saying they plan to increase employee count, with just a single percent saying they plan to reduce headcount.

This jives with what I personally hear, all the time (especially in the tech industry), that finding good people is harder now than ever before (recent history).

Good stuff for Jacksonville and NE Florida! Read more over here.

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Jacksonville Times-Union: Duval faces $1.08 billion tab to renovate, replace schools

Brian Tuttle — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 11:36:21 +0000

The Times Union has a nice write-up about a common dilemma that reared its ugly head recently: public schools with not enough money.

While they (thankfully) don’t all look like School #4, just a little under a third (56) of the Duval County School buildings are in pretty bad shape and need to be replaced.

Jacobs Engineers was hired by the Duval County School board to create a long-term facilities plan, a plan that will look at the useful life of the buildings while taking into account the expected enrollment, major expenses, etc. The firm continues to gather information.

Some major points and interesting facts:

Duval is one of a handful of urban districts that doesn’t have funding from a second source for building costs (that is: sales taxes or impact fees)
Charter schools continue to grow in number, which removes students as well as funding from the existing schools
129,181 students are enrolled in DCPS Schools (2017-2018)
Of those, 15,943 attend Charter schools (wow- I had no idea there were that many)

Read about enrollment over at DCPS, here.

Read the Times-Union’s article over here.

Thanks for reading.

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Is Jacksonville ready for electric scooters?

Brian Tuttle — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 11:56:01 +0000

With all the great projects happening or planned for Downtown Jacksonville, are we ready for the app-driven, GPS enabled, rentable electric scooters to make an appearance?

The basic idea is that: GPS enabled, electric scooters are made available, basically everywhere in metro areas. They get unlocked / rented, for ‘as little as $1,’ used and dropped off where-ever the renter is done. No need to pick-up and return at a certain location; just pick up and drop off at your convenience!

There are two main competitors in this fledgling industry: Lime and Bird. They both have MANY more locations than I realized:

Lime locations map.

Bird locations map.

Pretty remarkable, seeing as how both companies were founded in 2017. Bird is valued north of $2B in its latest round of funding.

Of course, it’s not all rosy everywhere. The Verge has a piece about some of the downsides of the business model; faster than expected depreciation, vandalism, repair costs, and overall, higher than expected expenses.

And, also of course, personal injury attorneys will do their thing to keep us safe.

I say bring it; where do I sign up? It may not be sustainable, and it may have some downsides, but I for one would have gladly rented four scooters at the last Jags game. We parked about a mile and a half away, and a scooter ride would have made that trip a LOT more entertaining.

The Jacksonville Business Journal and FT have a (paywalled) article about it over here.

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Bay Street buildings set to come down

Brian Tuttle — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 20:42:30 +0000

In order for the new development that we need in downtown Jacksonville, the old stuff has to come down.

And come down it will! Permits for the destruction of the old courthouse and annex on Bay Street were filed and interior destruction has already been started.

On with the new! Out with the old!

Learn more over at the Jax Daily Record

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Daily Record: The Landing food court is closed

Brian Tuttle — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:51:46 +0000

Probably not signifying the best future for the Landing: the escalator to the food court is blocked and the food vendors are gone.

The Jax Daily Record reports that it’s been closed since October, and while it would be easy to say ‘it’s just a food court,’ it’s yet another sign of the unfortunate state of the Landing.

Welcome to briantuttle.org

Brian Tuttle — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:23:18 +0000

Here’s some stuff about my career in the copier & technology industry, my journey as a Jacksonville Realtor and Real Estate professional, and my life in Jacksonville, Florida.

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