2003 may be the best year ever for local home sales - 2003-08-04
To date, it's been a very exciting and active year for real estate. Each month, total home sales have exceeded the same month of the previous year. Just take a look at where we are.

With six months reporting, total home sales are 15 percent ahead of the same reporting period a year ago, which was the previous best year ever. Mortgage interest rates, the lowest since the 1950s, are the driving force.
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CRAIG/is tops list - 2003-08-04
Jeff Craig is nothing if not confident. The 16th floor office his firm, CRAIG/is Ltd., occupies in the Wachovia building effortlessly holds the 117 employees working there now.

The company's work force expanded at an even higher rate: from eight employees when it moved to Jacksonville two years ago to 117 today. It employs lawyers, mortgage brokers, bankers, insurance executives and information technology professionals.
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