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best product on the market. We bring the whole team to the client, making their lives much easier and reducing that stress.”
Bella is looking to continue its exponential growth over the next year while still providing that same high-quality product it prides itself on. Stephen reveals more about the future:“ It’ s important we don’ t grow too fast, enabling us to handle our workload confidently and to the best of our ability. I’ d particularly love to grow the custom homes side of the business – ideally, our spec homes and our custom build projects would be 50 / 50. Right now, we have more spec homes, so I’ d really like to even that out. That’ s our goal. Quite honestly, the industry was a little bit tougher in 2025, but I feel as though we’ re going to have a shift in the market now as there’ s an influx of buyers starting to come to Florida from the New York area. During Covid, everyone was coming down here and buying properties, which drove up prices. This has slowed down over the last 12 to 18
months, however I do think we’ ll see a pickup- interest rates are coming down, as are house prices. These market trends are going to help us in the home-building sector, especially the luxury side of it, which hasn’ t been affected too much by interest rates. People don’ t usually get mortgages in our price range.”
Focusing further ahead, Bella has an exciting and ambitious five-year strategy centered around the scale of its projects.“ We shall continue what we’ re doing while moving up and aiming for bigger projects,” concludes Stephen.“ We’ re looking at purchasing a $ 3 million piece of property and building a $ 40 million home in the next two to three years. This is a monumental step up for us, from building $ 15 million homes, to building homes in the region of $ 40 million to $ 50 million and I’ m undertaking a lot of research to make sure we can execute designs of this level.” ■
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