Luxury & Beach Realty

Luxury & Beach Realty Luxury & Beach Realty is a real estate brokerage with offices in South Pasadena, Naples & Orlando.

Luxury & Beach Realty is where producing agents find the mentorship, broker accessibility, and collaborative community they can’t get at larger brokerages — without giving up the competitive economics they’ve earned.

There's a kind of brokerage built around the noise — the sales floor, the 7 AM huddle, the leaderboard, the volume conte...
06/19/2026

There's a kind of brokerage built around the noise — the sales floor, the 7 AM huddle, the leaderboard, the volume contest.

We built a different kind.

At Luxury & Beach Realty, the broker is at her desk. Agent support is a phone call away. Transaction support that actually picks up the phone. Marketing runs in the background. Coaching happens one-on-one, not in front of forty people.

It's quiet here on purpose. Because the work that wins for your clients — the call-back you make on a Sunday, the careful read on a counteroffer, the conversation you have with a nervous seller — that work needs space.

If you've spent years at a brokerage that confused activity with productivity, you might be ready for what quiet feels like.

— Luxury & Beach Realty · St. Petersburg, FL

06/19/2026

If you've been told you can't afford a new construction home — Belinda Parker has a 60-second breakdown that's worth saving.

Builder-preferred lenders. Below-market rates. Energy-efficient designs. Closing-cost help that resale homes simply can't match.

The math is different on new construction. Most buyers don't know it — and explaining it well is the work.

This is exactly the kind of specialist expertise we develop our agents to build at LBR. Specialists, not generalists.

Belinda Parker · Luxury & Beach Realty · 727-742-8326

New Coquina Key listing from Betty Rohe — a bayfront 3/3 corner unit with unobstructed Tampa Bay views at $659,000. Wort...
06/19/2026

New Coquina Key listing from Betty Rohe — a bayfront 3/3 corner unit with unobstructed Tampa Bay views at $659,000. Worth a look.📞 Betty Rohe · Luxury & Beach Realty · 301-366-3208

Updated waterfront-community pool home for sale in Tierra Verde.906 Landmark Cir S · Tierra Verde, FL 33715$949,000 · 3 ...
06/18/2026

Updated waterfront-community pool home for sale in Tierra Verde.
906 Landmark Cir S · Tierra Verde, FL 33715

$949,000 · 3 bed · 3 bath · 2,220 sq ft · 2-car garage · pool & spa
The kind of home that lets you live the island life without renovating into it. The major updates are already done:
🏠 New tile roof (2025)
🌪️ Hurricane-impact windows and doors throughout
🚪 Hurricane-impact sliders to the pool
🛁 Fully updated bathrooms
🏊 Pebble Tec-resurfaced pool and spa, new pool filter and plumbing (2025), gas pool/spa heater
🌴 Newly screened lanai (2025) over a large covered patio
🚗 Paver driveway, epoxy garage floor, new garage door

First-floor primary suite with sliding doors straight to the pool, custom walk-in closet, wrap-around double vanity, garden tub, and separate water closet. Five separate access points to the pool deck. Plantation shutters throughout. Water softener + drinking water purification. Average Duke Energy bill ~$210/month.

Tierra Verde puts you minutes from St. Pete Beach, Pass-A-Grille, Fort De Soto, and downtown St. Pete. Isla Del Sol Yacht & Country Club is right down the road for golf, tennis, pickleball, and dining. Waterfront parks, kayaking, paddleboarding, biking trails, and a dog-friendly waterfront park — all in walking or short-driving distance.

For qualified veterans: an assumable VA loan at 2.75% is available with this home. That's a meaningful payment difference at today's rates — worth a conversation with your lender if you qualify.

Recently improved by $46,000.

Listed by Michael Hitchens · Luxury & Beach Realty · 727-688-8314
Contact Michael for a private showing this weekend.

The Fed held rates today — but that's not the real news.The real news is what they took out of the statement.For the pas...
06/18/2026

The Fed held rates today — but that's not the real news.

The real news is what they took out of the statement.

For the past several Fed meetings, the official statement included language signaling that rate cuts were likely later this year. Today, that language was gone. So was any forward guidance about what comes next.

What that means in plain English: the "rate cuts are coming, just hang on" story your clients have been telling themselves since spring just lost its institutional backing.

The Fed didn't just hold rates — they quietly stopped promising cuts.

Three things to bring into client conversations this week:

→ For buyers who've been "waiting for rates to come down" — the case for waiting just got significantly weaker. Today's rates may be closer to next year's rates than to last year's. Run the numbers at today's math.

→ For sellers holding out for "rates to drop so my home moves" — the timeline didn't just stretch. It became unknowable. The pricing conversation needs to happen this week, not next quarter.

→ For everyone in your sphere — headline inflation hit 4.2% in May. Until that number moves toward 2%, the Fed has stated its commitment to price stability. Translation: the rate environment your clients are navigating is the rate environment for the foreseeable future.

This was Kevin Warsh's first meeting as Fed Chair. The shorter statement and the missing forward guidance are early signs of a different communication style — one that gives agents less to forecast against, and more to interpret.

The agents who win markets like this aren't the ones predicting what comes next. They're the ones helping their clients decide what to do today.

📚 Sources: Federal Reserve FOMC statement, June 17, 2026; Financial Post coverage of the FOMC meeting

Congratulations to Jan Adams — Luxury & Beach Realty's Top Listing Agent for May 2026. 👏Listing agents have to be three ...
06/17/2026

Congratulations to Jan Adams — Luxury & Beach Realty's Top Listing Agent for May 2026. 👏

Listing agents have to be three things at once: a marketer who makes the property irresistible, a strategist who knows when to hold the price and when to advise an adjustment, and a negotiator who can keep a deal together when the numbers get tight.

Jan does all three — month after month — with the kind of quiet expertise that turns sellers into repeat clients and referrers.

If you're thinking about listing your home in the Tampa Bay area, Jan is the kind of agent you want walking through your front door.

📞 Jan Adams · Luxury & Beach Realty
📞 727-418-1861
📧 [email protected]

That moment when the inspection report lands in your inbox and you scan it praying nothing's flagged — every agent knows...
06/16/2026

That moment when the inspection report lands in your inbox and you scan it praying nothing's flagged — every agent knows it.

Sometimes nothing's wrong. Sometimes everything is. And sometimes what looks like a dead deal is actually just a renegotiation in disguise.

Here's the experienced-agent move when inspection breaks a deal:

1. Name what bucket you're in. Material defect, repair-cost dispute, or buyer cold feet — those are the three. The bucket determines the play.

2. Call your broker first. Not the buyer, not the listing agent. Your broker has seen all three buckets before and knows which next move actually saves the deal versus which one buries it.

3. Reframe the moment. A dead deal and a renegotiating deal look identical at this stage. The agents who keep deals together aren't the ones who avoid problems — they're the ones who know the difference.

Save this for the next inspection that goes sideways. And if your current brokerage doesn't have a broker who picks up the phone when you need to make this call — that's worth thinking about.

5 things quietly moving Tampa Bay real estate agents forward right now — because not every week of this market is hard. ...
06/12/2026

5 things quietly moving Tampa Bay real estate agents forward right now — because not every week of this market is hard. Some of it's actually working in our favor 👇

1. Florida home sales are up year-over-year for 8 consecutive months.

The headlines focus on rates. The data shows buyers are still moving. Steady demand is the foundation everything else rests on.

2. Buyers are committing despite rate uncertainty.

The clients who've been "waiting" for months are starting to recalculate. Agents who can update payment scenarios and talk seller concessions are turning maybes into contracts.

3. Educational content is converting better than ever.

Every agent who's taught their audience something this year — Reels, carousels, newsletters — is building a pipeline. The trust curve is shorter when you teach first.

4. The "right brokerage" question is getting louder.

Agents are noticing what's missing where they are — broker access, transaction support, real coaching. The bar is rising. The agents who find their right fit grow.

5. The summer slowdown isn't here.

Inventory is normalizing, buyers are active, and Florida's net-migration story hasn't changed. June and July are still working months — not coast months.

These aren't predictions. They're patterns we're watching at LBR. Save this for the week your client asks "is now really the right time?" — and you'll have five honest answers.

📚 Source on Florida sales streak: Florida Realtors (June 5, 2026). Other observations: LBR.

05/07/2025

Congratulations to our own Maria Gallace Gerelus, Luxury & Beach Realty We can't wait to watch the show! You are a natural. 🤩🤩🎉

Address

801 3rd Street South
Saint Petersburg, FL
33701

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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