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Living in Ponce Inlet opens the door to exploring your life as you want to live it. Just as the Spanish explorers came and “discovered” all that the area has to offer, visitors and residents alike find that the area has a great deal to offer.

Specifically, homes in Ponce Inlet offer those who own them to spend as much or as little of their time on the beach as suits their personality and their schedule. On the outside, these homes offer beautiful landscaping, a style that is both natural and beautiful.

On the inside, Ponce Inlet homes offer everything you need to feel at home. For those who count on having a home theater, they’ll find that their space is pre-wired for the best of what home entertainment has to offer. Those who are concerned with security will find that their home was pre-wired for an alarm system that will ensure that they – and their family – are safe.

With spacious kitchens, grand rooms, master suites, room for dining, entertaining and more, living in Ponce Inlet means many different things to many people, but mostly it means that they are free to be themselves.

What could living in Ponce Inlet mean to you? What would you discover?

When people make the choice to mover into a community, there are a number of things that they look for: a great neighborhood, a property that suits their needs, the ability to know that the maintenance will be taken care.

In some cases, however, homebuyers aren’t looking for just any community. For some, it’s all about living on the edge of a golf course. For others it’s about living near the water. For others still, nothing but a waterfront community will do.

Living in a Florida waterfront community is all about having easy access to the Atlantic – as is the case for those who choose to live in a Jacksonville Beach Condo – or it’s about the intercoastal waterway and more exclusive areas like Ponce Inlet and St. Augustine.

It’s simple really: different people have different needs. But when you dig a little deeper and look under the surface, communities all have something in common: a shared passion for the area, an impulse towards a certain lifestyle and a comfortable place to call home.

While Florida’s First Coast communities – Jacksonville, Ponce Inlet and St. Augustine, among many others – are known for providing exceptional golf, that doesn’t mean that the only things to do in the area involve playing 9 or 18 holes.

Yes, golfers will love the First Coast. But those whose idea of a good time strays from the green, Florida’s First Coast communities also provide:

• Access to world class spa resorts
• the opportunity to watch college level and professional football
• access to fishing, biking, kayaking and other outdoor activities
• the chance to explore historic sites
• a broad variety of museums and attractions in the arts
• more than enough beach space for everyone to have a chance to unwind, walk in the surf, watch the tides roll in and out and comb the beach for shells or take part in other activities.

In other words, the area really does have something for everyone – including both residents and vacationers, the young and the older, those who want to be active as well as those who just want to be able to kick back, relax and enjoy all that life has to offer.

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Florida Coastal Real Estate – Seaside Views

When you’ve made a commitment to buying a luxury home in Ponce Inlet, Florida, a few things are obvious.

1. You appreciate the beauty of the Florida Coast and recognize that, in those areas that are less developed, there will be more of the natural beauty left for you to enjoy.
2. You don’t want to sacrifice: you want to have a beautiful home in a beautiful setting.
3. You want to know that your lifestyle will let you take advantage of all of the things that are important to you – the environment, comfort and family (not necessarily in that order).

That implies a number of things, most notably that you want to be able to take care of and spend time with your family; what better way to do that than with family meals?

When your luxury home has a luxury kitchen – plenty of space for prep, putting gourmet meals together and top of the line appliances – preparing and sharing meals with your family is simple.

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Florida Coastal Real Estate – Seaside Views

Those who love the outdoors are often drawn to Florida beaches. Many others are drawn to other environmental aspects of Florida – and one great way of enjoying the Florida environment is to take advantage of all of the opportunities that the area offers to bird watchers.

Sites like the:

Weedon Island Preserve in Pinellas County, Florida has hiking and canoe trails, a fishing pier, kayak rentals, and an observation tower with over a mile of boardwalks through mangrove swamps. (Courtesy of FWC)

offer residents and tourists alike the chance to really take in their environment – whether on foot, by bike or by paddling through the area and just taking it all in.

Projects by Cranewoods Development take the Florida environment into consideration, building in beautiful areas – and providing ways for property owners to enjoy the natural landscape in a way that preserves nature – using turtle safe windows, for example.

As a result, those who choose to live in northeastern Florida are able to make a choice – a choice that allows them to have a home that appeals to their needs as a homeowner and as someone who cares about the environment.

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Florida Coastal Real Estate – Seaside Views

St. Augustine, Florida has more than enough to offer to appeal to everyone; a short list of what’s there looks like this:

(Source)Both fine and casual dining, nationally renowned art galleries, specialty boutiques, historic landmarks and more than 40 miles of oceanfront beaches make this coastal region a popular destination for residents and visitors alike. A charming pedestrians-only street, St. George, is lined with shops that bring together the old and new. Just a short drive away is St. Augustine Beach on Anastasia Island, which has a fishing pier, shopping and dining. Visitors interested in learning more about the area’s long history can enjoy a variety of tours, such as those of Castillo de San Marcos, the nation’s oldest stone fort, and the Gonzalez-Alvarez house, the state’s oldest Spanish Colonial dwelling. Museums include the living history museum, Colonial Spanish Quarter.

Modern homes in an historic area, the formal and the casual, the laid back and the very active: part of what makes St. Augustine so appealing to residents and tourists alike is the way that things that seem as though they could be in contrast seem to merge seamlessly.

That’s the way it is for many people as well – we all have those days when we want to be going nonstop as well as days where we’d like to just kick back and relax. There are days when you want to dress up and go out for a great meal, and then there are those nights when you come home from work and just don’t feel like cooking so you want to go out for a quick bite – no frills.

In St. Augustine, you’ll find what you’re looking for – even if it’s something different that you thought that you would want.

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Florida Coastal Real Estate – Seaside Views

If you were able to start off with a great open floor plan, clean, modern lines, and plenty of space – what would come out of it? Would you choose to decorate with muted colors, or would you choose art prints that would make a bold statement? What kind of lighting would you want the unit to have? Those who look towards making a Florida condominium home will find that there are many options available to them. There are condos available near the water – in both busy areas and in more quiet places like Ponce Inlet. There are different floor plans to choose from, different finishes. It’s the number of options, the wide variety of choices, that make Florida condo living so appealing to those who are thinking about making a life for themselves and their families in Florida: it’s not hard to find a place that suits any unique style; you just have to look for it.

Where can you go to explore the simplistic and elegant sculpture of Minoru Ohira? Where can you go to see sculpture made primarily of recycled wood by Duncan Johnson? Where can you go to experience the sound-based kinetic sculptures of Martha Whittington?

More than just the home to First Wednesday Art Walks, Jacksonville is home to the Museum of Contemporary Art where you can experience short term exhibits like those by Ohira, Johnson and Whittington, as well as a permanent collection of the arts.

MOCA Jacksonville primarily collects work from 1960 to the present. The Museum’s permanent collection currently consists of almost 800 works of art, including painting, printmaking, sculpture, and photography. MOCA Jacksonville endeavors to create a permanent collection of significant depth, scope, and quality to be used for study, scholarly research, and exhibition – all tools that foster an education, awareness and experience with contemporary visual art.

No matter what interests you about the Florida Arts, you’ll find that there is plenty to capture your attention at Jacksonville’s Museum of Contemporary Art – but then, that might mean leaving the work of Florida art that is your Jacksonville loft.

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Florida Coastal Real Estate – Seaside Views

Florida is not only a great place to live – it’s also a great place to vacation, whether for a weekend getaway or as an escape from a long cold winter in another part of the country.

When you have a Florida condominium, you’ll find that you’re able to choose how you use your home.

You could make the decision to make your Florida condo your permanent home. You could choose a condo that would put you in the center of a city like Jacksonville, by the ocean in St. Augustine, Ponce Inlet or Jacksonville Beach, or a Florida condo that puts you close enough to spend the day at a theme park.

Even vacation condos in Florida – another way to use your Florida condo – can be located close enough that your family can enjoy vacation destinations as well as beaches and other activities, just not right in places like Orlando.

Or, because it’s so common for people to make the choice to retire to Florida, a condominium home can be an ideal investment in your future: a place that you know will be there for you when you’re ready to move into the next stage of your life.

When you choose a Florida condo, you’ll be in control of how you use it; you’ll also be sure that you’ve made a great investment.

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Florida Coastal Real Estate – Seaside Views

Jacksonville Beach is a great place to live. You’ve got easy access to the Atlantic, plenty of outdoor activity – whether you’re into parasailing, running, biking, kayaking, swimming or other sports – great restaurants and shopping and easy access to everything else that you’re looking for.

What better way to enjoy Jacksonville Beach than to live in a waterfront home?

At The Northshore Oceanside condos, you’ll find that everything great about living in Jacksonville Beach is just a short distance from home. Wake up and enjoy your morning coffee on the beach and start you day off in a relaxed state of mind. Spend time with friends on the beach – bring a picnic and make an event of it or go out for a great dinner.

Take a short drive and go see more of what Florida has to offer – go ahead and play tourist and know that you’ve still got a great home to go back to, no need to guess and check and hope you pick the right hotel.