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Gulf Breeze, Florida Home Up For Auction

If winter has you dreaming of warmer weather, Anderson Realty USA could have your new dream home, a waterfront luxury estate home in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Gulf Breeze is a suburb on Pensacola in the Florida panhandle and this home face in toward East Bay. The home is currently up for online pre-bidding with a live auction scheduled for February 12. The home has 9,449 square feet with five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a screened bayside pool and patio area and a private dock and boatslip.

Built for a casual lifestyle, the home has a recreational and game room with direct access to the pool, multiple living areas and a mother-in-law or guest suite on the first level complete with its own kitchen and living area.

The master suite has two walk-in closets and there is also a private study with wet bar. The property may be inspected February 6 from 1:30pm to 4pm, or by appointment. Bidders can register online to bid on the property. The online pre-bidding will end Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 11:11am CST, just prior to the live auction. For more details about the property, including auction terms, visit www.AndersonRealtyUSA.com or call toll free (877) 654-5300.

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Scenic Highway, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates

Today's home in Pensacola, Florida is all about the view. The waterfront home is perched on the Scenic Highway bluffs with views over Escambia Bay. A new 350-foot dock and a large 42'x42' boathouse offer room for your aquatic toys. The dock boasts 4' deep water year around. The home has two very large balconies giving you views of marine life at play as pelicans, seagulls and occasional osprey dive and even the occasional dolphin can be spotted. The home has a great room with over 20' high ceilings, fireplace, gourmet kitchen with granite countertops and top of the line appliances, formal dining room, polished travertine floors and a balcony that stretches the entire width of the house.

The master suite includes a see-through fireplace, a custom designed master bathroom and closets, generous laundry and separate storage room plus a library/office or another bedroom with in suite bathroom overlooking the landscaped and very private front yard. Two more stories are reached through the interior staircase or via the commercial sized glass elevator where large windows reveal the Bay views as you travel between floors. The second level is taken up by a very large bedroom, huge sitting area and luxurious bathroom a private guest suite. The third story has another very large balcony running along the entire width of the home and two large bedrooms facing the bay with in-suite bathrooms. A second guest kitchen is easily accessed from both bedrooms; and that provides accesses to the gardens and multi-level decks with an outside hot tub and showers under the house.

Back on the ground floor there is a fenced in yard and another gated entrance and driveway to a large parking deck about 35 feet above sea level which is accessed via a private, paved road along the Bay. There is comprehensive hurricane and security protection at the touch of a switch and every window and door has roll down insulated hurricane shutters. This home is listed at $3.7 million.

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Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Hotel Open For Business

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

I've written before about Jimmy Buffett's impressive empire. In addition to being a successful touring musician and novelist Buffett has a carved out a huge business based on a couple of his songs. There is a whole chain of Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurants and Margaritaville cafes in a variety of places including New Orleans, Las Vegas and several Florida resort towns in addition to a beer line made by made by Anheuser-Busch, a tequila made by Seagram, branded clothing, drink blenders and more. All told it reportedly bringing in around $40 million a year. That number might swell with the opening of the first Margaritaville Hotel which debuted on the barrier island of Pensacola Beach in the Gulf of Mexico at the end of last month. Although this isn't optimum timing the 162-room hotel was two years in the making.

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