National homebuilder buys lakefront property near The Grow agrihood

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One of the nation’s busiest homebuilders has closed on the purchase of lakeside property in east Orange County, near the site where the $1 billion mixed-use The Grow agrihood will rise.

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Orange County records show M/I Homes of Orlando LLC on Jan. 10 paid $6.7 million for a roughly 75-acre site on the northeast shore of Corner Lake, at the southwest corner of Lake Pickett Road and County Road 419. The seller was Ann Linder of the Linder Family.

M/I Homes of Orlando is a subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio-based M/I Homes Inc. (NYSE: MHO), which industry publication Builder Magazine ranked as the No. 13 homebuilder in the country in 2023.

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