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Tomas Reyes

Tomas Reyes has worked the Lake Nona market for sixteen years -- long enough to have sold houses in Northlake Park when it was the edge of everything, and to now spend most of his weeks in Laureate Park and the newer villages that have grown up around the town center. His specialty is new construction, and specifically the part of it that buyers find hardest to judge on their own: what a given builder does well, what they cut, which floor plans live better than they show, and how a slab and a frame are supposed to look before the drywall goes up. Tomas walks his buyers' houses at each stage, keeps his own punch list alongside the builder's, and is usually the last person to leave a showing because he is still in the garage looking at the trusses. He also represents the resale side of Lake Nona that gets less attention -- the early-2000s homes in Northlake Park and Village Walk that were built before the area had a name for itself, and that now trade on mature trees and short walks to the lake. He knows which of those need a roof, which have the original systems, and which were quietly done right. Tomas holds the Accredited Buyer's Representative and Certified Residential Specialist designations, and works with a deliberately small roster so that he can be at the inspections, the walkthroughs, and the closings himself. His clients are often engineers, clinicians, and other people who came to Lake Nona for the medical city and the schools, and who appreciate an agent who will read a warranty document as closely as they would. He is not a fast agent, and says so early. Buyers who need to close in three weeks are usually better served by someone else; buyers who want every question answered before they sign tend to stay with him for their next house too. Tomas lives in Lake Nona with his family, within a bike ride of the town center, and coaches youth soccer on the fields at Laureate Park. For buyers weighing new construction in Lake Nona -- or looking at its older, quieter streets -- Tomas Reyes is a careful, patient guide.