Neal Communities, ranked among the top 50 home builders nationally by Builder Magazine, has announced the firm sold 276 homes in the third quarter. The Lakewood Ranch-based builder has sold 856 homes year to date, up from 833 through the first nine months of 2015. The builder hired 70 people in 2016 and now has 320 employees and has built over 10,000 homes in southwest Florida in the last 45 years.
“Consumer confidence was up again in September, according to industry data,” says Pat Neal, chairman of the executive committee of Neal Communities, in a statement. “The Southwest Florida home buying market is normally more robust than housing trends nationwide, and we can clearly see the results of a spike in home buyer confidence through our home sales throughout the third quarter.”
