He advises colleagues to start ventures now because land prices will shock them if they wait until next year.

"Land prices have stabilized nationally, but while the trend is also evident in Central Florida, there is a marked shortage of land where development is currently permitted," the founder/chairman of Maitland, FL-based Realvest Partners Inc. tells GlobeSt.com. "Clearly, higher land prices are imminent."

Livingston, a director of Virginia-based CORFAC International Inc., says, "Given the long lead time to develop, projects that are getting under way now will reap the greatest rewards at the first surge in demand," He stresses, "Now is the time to be aggressive."

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