Homes sales up, but prices staying low – Star-Banner The hospitals have certainly geared up and staffed up to deal with it.” Mr Houghton said that Mr Leeward, from Ocala, Florida, was a real estate developer who had been racing planes since the mid-1970s. He added that most of Leewardaposs family had been at. Kimberly Ann Bryant, president of the Ocala/Marion County Association of Realtors. according to CoreLogic, a real estate date firm. In some areas of Florida, including Marion County, nearly 60 percent of homeowners owe more than what they.