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Record & Observer Blackstone Real Estate owner Jonathan Young said his sales were 26% higher in 2020 than in 2019 and he recorded the top home sale of the year at $7.67 million.

Relocations helping drive the market squeeze. BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER

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Buyers are fleeing more expensive regions of the U.S. because of the pandemic and low interest rates. BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER

ow interest rates and an influx of residents from the Northeast and California helped several Ponte Vedra real estate agents make 2020 the best year in their careers. Agents who sold the region’s most expensive homes in 2020 said they are

seeing more new-to-the-area buyers than ever, many coming from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and California. “People are moving out of the urban areas to smaller communities because of the COVID concerns,” said Elizabeth Hudgins, a Realtor with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services in Atlantic Beach.

MORE REAL ESTATE INSIDE Construction strong: Building permits surge 21.4% from 2019, according to the Northeast Florida Builders Association. Page 3 Ponte Vedra dominates: The Top 10 residential home sales of 2020 in Northeast Florida. Page 4-5 More sales: The Top 10 sales of the fourth quarter in the region. Page 6

Nearly 35,000 home sales closed in 2020, up 8.2% from 2019, according to the Northeast Florida Association of Realtors 2020 annual report. The report encompasses Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau, Putnam and St. Johns counties. The year ended in a low inventory market with a 1.5-month supply of houses for sale, down from a 3.2-month supply at the end of 2019. A typical market would have a 6-month supply, said NEFAR President Missi Howell. She estimates the market has had less than a 4-month supply since about 2016. At the end of 2020, 4,549 homes were on the market. At the end of 2019, 8,569 homes were on the market. Howell said the low inventory market can be attributed to buy-

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“We have no state income taxes. Now that you can live anywhere, why not live in a warm climate? That’s what is drawing a lot of people.” Hudgins sold 2020’s second-highest home by price at 1193 Ponte Vedra Blvd. for $7.6 million and the fourth-highest sale of the year down the street at 1197 Ponte Vedra Blvd. for $7.25 million. She has been a Northeast Florida Realtor for more than 30 years. Hudgins said Ponte Vedra and the beaches, especially oceanfront properties, have been in high demand. Justin Lott, team lead for the Justin Lott Home Selling Team, said the pandemic caused people to Hudgins want more square footage for uses like a home office, home-schooling space or a gym. “At the beginning of 2020, you had a lot of people who were quarantined and realized they didn’t like their house, they didn’t like their property,” Lott said. “They really wanted to improve their property or their lifestyle.” Lott represented the buyer in the sixth-highest home sale of 2020 at 465 Beach Ave. in Atlantic Beach for $6.7 million, the only top 10 property in Duval County. Ponte Vedra buyers also were looking for oceanfront properties, a lower density neighborhood and outdoor entertaining space. Pools are at the top of prospective buyers’ lists, Lott said. Low interest rates and Florida’s lack of income tax made relocating to the area even more appealing. Lott “The Beaches have been a great benefactor of that,” Lott said. Before the pandemic, Ponte Vedra’s location in the St. Johns County School District was one of its most attractive offerings. Now, people are interested in the lifestyle the area provides, said Jonathan Young, the owner of Blackstone Real Estate. Young said his sales were 26% higher in 2020 than in 2019. He sold 1217 Ponte Vedra Blvd. for $7.67 million, the top home sale of the year. With a low inventory of homes for sale, Young said listings are hard to come by, for both agents and buyers. To some extent, Ponte Vedra always is a low inventory market, since there are only so many high-end homes. That has only been compounded by increased

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ers relocating to the area. Local buyers wanted to move into bigger homes to accommodate working and schooling from home, as well. Out-of-state buyers are noticing Jacksonville’s low density and low cost-of-living environment, which is attracting them to the area, she said. “All of those factors have come together in this perfect universe,” Howell said. She said with COVID keeping real estate agents from holding open houses, buyers were making offers on properties they had seen only virtually. “We saw a big shift in the way we were going about the process of getting homes sold,” she said. December 2020’s median sale price was $267,000, 11.3% higher than the $240,000 median price the year before. About 18.6% of homes sold above the asking

WHY THEY SOLD John and Joanne Disebastian, the former homeowners at 1217 Ponte Vedra Blvd., said they sold the oceanfront home they built and lived in for six years for a simpler lifestyle. It sold for $7.67 million, the top sale in 2020. “We knew major repair bills were coming and we didn’t want to worry about monthly payments,” said John Disebastian. They aren’t moving far. Disebastian said they purchased a lot in Osprey Point at Sawgrass Country Club where they soon will begin construction of a 9,000-square-foot home. “I’m 73 years old. I want to live in Sawgrass and have a golf cart,” Disebastian said. MAX MARBUT

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price in December, 55% more than in December 2019. In 2020 overall, homes sold for an average of $309,001, up 11.8% from 2019. Fewer new listings hit the market in 2020. Sellers listed 40,408 Howell homes, down from 41,130 in 2019. Orange Park, Neptune Beach and Atlantic Beach saw the biggest decrease in new listings over the year. Howell said there needs to be more construction, people putting their longtime homes on the market and more affordable housing. “Bottom line is, we need more houses however we can get them,” she said. “I don’t think people are going to stop coming into our market.” KGARWOOD@ JAXDAILYRECORD.COM (904) 356-2466

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No slowdown: Building permits surge 21.4% There were 12,555 single-family residential building permits issued in Duval, Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties last year, up 21.4% from 2019, according to data from the Northeast Florida Builders Association. NEFBA President Keith Ward of Thomas May Construction said despite the pandemic, builders were as busy as ever in 2020. “COVID did not really slow down the construction business, commercial or residential, in Northeast Florida,” Ward said. “I think there is such a high demand for housing, especially in Northeast Florida, right now that we were able to keep moving forward.” With an influx of new residents to Northeast Florida during the pandemic, demand for housing is causing a lowinventory market. Homebuilders are helping to put new properties on the market. “The demand has not slowed down, we don’t have enough housing in stock right now to keep up Ward with the market,” Ward said. Duval County saw the biggest jump in permits over last year, with 5,463 in 2020. That is 29.8% higher than in 2019. Permits in St. Johns increased 20.6%, Nassau increased 11.3% and Clay permits were up 0.9%. At the start of the pandemic, Ward expected the construction industry to take a hit. His company, which focuses on commercial construction, did not have a decrease in business last year. “Most of the people that I know and the larger homebuilders didn’t really see a slowdown,” he said. “Everybody I know has been talking about how they’re as busy as can be.” July was the busiest month for builders in 2020, with 1,251 permits issued in the region. There were 18.5% more permits issued than in the same period in 2019. May had the fewest permits issued, with 791 that month, a 19.8% decrease from May 2019. In 2021, Ward said he expects builders to have more business than in 2020. In addition to new construction, Ward said contractors have been seeing more business from customers wanting to remodel their homes, which will increase business. “The builder’s association is preparing for a 15% growth in permits for 2021,” he said. “We’ve been gaining on the last couple of years.” In the past 20 years that NEFBA has tracked the data, 2020 had the third-highest number of building permits. There were 17,753 permits issued in 2005 and 13,725 in 2004, before the 2007-09 Great Recession. The lowest point was in 2011, with 3,151 permits.

interest in the area. “It is certainly more competitive to get the listings,” Young said. “When you’re representing a buyer, it’s challenging to get them the property that was just listed.” That could change in a few months as more people are vaccinated and life begins to return to normal, Hudgins said. “As the year goes on, people are going to be more comfortable putting their houses on the market,” she said. As a result of the low inventory market, high-end homes that could typically take more than a year to sell are moving faster, said Tricia Bowers with Marsh Landing Country Club Realty. Her sale at 733 Ponte Vedra Blvd. sold in six months for $7.395 million. It was the third-highest sale by price of the year. “The market just picked up out there,” she said. “There were a bunch that sold in that time frame.” Bowers Spring and summer typically are busiest for Northeast Florida real estate agents. While sales were slower in 2020, winter was when many sales took place. “We have been inundated with business over the holidays, whereas in 2019, 2018 and 2017, we were seeing a bit of a slowdown,” Lott said. “Real estate agents can take a little bit of a vacation. Not in 2020. We had Christmas off, and then back to work. It’s something that I think is going to continue into 2021.”

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THE TOP 10 RESIDENTIAL SALES BY MAX MARBUT • ASSOCIATE EDITOR A general rule in residential real estate is that oceanfront property comes with a premium price. That concept was exemplified in Northeast Florida in 2020, when nine of the top 10 sales by price – totalling nearly $67 million – were recorded for homes with property lines at the sand along the Atlantic Ocean. It’s even more specific. Nine of the top 10 local sales are homes in Ponte Vedra Beach in St. Johns County. Eight have addresses along an 8-mile stretch of the same road: Ponte Vedra Boulevard by the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club. The

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other is along a golf course at the club. Jeff Chefan, managing broker at First Coast Sotheby’s International Realty, the firm that represented the buyers of the No. 1 property on the list, said Ponte Vedra Beach is attracting people from outside the area who want a second home or vacation property on the ocean. “The value in Northeast Florida is better than what you can get in other parts of the state like Palm Beach or Broward County or the Sarasota and Naples area,” Chefan said.

$7,670,000

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NO. 1 SALE 1217 Ponte Vedra Blvd. in Ponte Vedra Beach is an oceanfront home built in 2015.

$7,600,000

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$7,395,000

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$7,250,000

1217 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach

1193 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach

733 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach

1197 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach

Type: Single-family Lot size: 1.53 acres House size: 8,818 square feet Buyer: The Judith Hathcock Revocable Trust Seller: John D. and Joanne M. Disebastian Recorded: June 30 Previous sale: $1,925,000 in 2012

Type: Single-family Lot size: 1.24 acres House size: 11,000 square feet Buyer: Wiverson C. Trecenti Seller: Wayne A. and Ann K. Galloway Recorded: Sept. 15

Type: Single-family Lot size: 1.04 acres House size: 9,735 square feet Buyer: Peter and Sarah Von Der Ahe Seller: The John F. Hoffecker Declaration of Trust Recorded: July 20 Previous sale: $6,250,000 in 2011

Type: Single-family Lot size: 1.65 acres House size: 8,654 square feet Buyer: John and Phyllis Patterson Seller: Kim B., Holly L. and Richard W. Forsythe, the 2015 Forsythe Management Trust Recorded: Feb. 4

Another oceanfront two-story home along Ponte Vedra Boulevard, No. 3 has six bedrooms with 7½ baths. Built in 2008, amenities include a 4,000-bottle wine room, theater, sauna, elevator, exercise room, balconies, seven fireplaces, a three-car garage, generator, dune walkover, pool and gated entry.

This oceanfront home has five bedrooms with five full and three halfbaths. The fourth-highest purchase of 2020 features balconies, porches and remote-control metal shutters along the ocean side of the home. It also has a wood-paneled office, an exercise room, six fireplaces (one outdoors), an elevator, a summer kitchen, a four-car garage, an infinity pool and spa, a tennis court and dune walkover.

With five bedrooms and 6½ bathrooms, the two-story oceanfront home in Ponte Vedra Beach was the highest sale price single-family purchase in Northeast Florida last year. Built in 2015 out of insulated concrete on pilings, the home features a theater, butler’s kitchen, outdoor entertainment areas, an infinity pool and a dune walkover for access to the beach.

The second-highest single family purchase last year is a close neighbor of the No. 1 transaction. Behind a security gate along Ponte Vedra Boulevard, it is a European-style estate known as “Turtle Hall.” Built in 2004 and designed to display a collection of fine art, it also has five bedrooms and 6½ baths, along with an infinity pool, a secret garden, outdoor entertainment area and a dune walkover.

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335 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach

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Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.34 acres House size: 9,000 square feet Buyer: The Pace Family Revocable Trust Seller: Benjamin M. and Patricia R. Carter Recorded: Dec. 18

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.32 acres House size: 6,143 square feet Buyer: Osvaldo and Kristine M. Bilotta Seller: David L. and Patricia D. Brown Recorded: Oct. 13 Previous sale: $3,160,000 in 2013

One of the last residential sales in 2020, this Anglo-Caribbean-inspired two-story oceanfront home has seven bedrooms, seven full and two half-baths, within walking distance of the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club. The home was built in 2007. Its design features include loggias, terraces and balconies, reclaimed heart pine and marble floors, an elevator, office, game room, covered patio, porch, heated pool and a dune walkover.

This two-story oceanfront home built in 1998 on 113 pilings features four bedrooms with 5½ baths. Amenities include a chef-inspired kitchen equipped with two refrigerators and cooktops, marble countertops, separate islands and an adjacent informal dining area open to the family room with pool and ocean views. The home has an office, library, porch and patio with pergola, hardwood and tile flooring, gym, pool, spa and a putting green.

6 $6,700,000

465 Beach Ave., Atlantic Beach

409 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.34 acres House size: 6,972 square feet Buyer: Joseph N. and Margo F. Williams Seller: W. Radford Lovett II Recorded: July 23

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.31 acres House size: 5,482 square feet Buyer: Stephen D. and Penny A. Rosen Seller: Mark S. and Janice R. Gold Recorded: Nov. 6 Previous sale: $3,500,000 in 2013

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This two-story oceanfront home in Atlantic Beach has five bedooms, five full and one half-bath. Built in 2003 on a 0.34-acre lot, it has hardwood floors, a library with built-in bookshelves, a wine storage room, a fireplace in the master bedroom and a pool, covered patio and fire pit.

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No. 5: 335 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach

No. 10: 317 San Juan Drive, Ponte Vedra Beach

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$5,650,000

Built in 1956, the coastal two-story oceanfront home was renovated in 2017. It has five bedrooms and 5½ baths. The main house has a first-floor guest suite and an office. The second floor has a large owner’s suite with an oceanfront sitting area, balcony, custom vanities and his/her closets. The garage addition has a guesthouse with pecky cypress beams.

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$5,500,000

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$5,490,000

87 and 89 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach

317 San Juan Drive, Ponte Vedra Beach

Type: Single-family and vacant lot Lot size: 1.63 acres House size: 7,373 square feet Buyer: The Robert B. Baker Revocable Trust Seller: Robert B. Baker Recorded: May 1

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.77 acres House size: 11,985 square feet Buyer: W. Radford Lovett II and Lindley A. Tolbert Seller: Robert C. and Sallie A. Hart Recorded: July 31

The purchase comprised a two-story, four-bedroom, five-bath house and the adjacent 110-foot-wide oceanfront lot across the street from the Ocean Course at Ponte Vedra Inn & Club.

This golf-course-view home built in 2010 has eight bedrooms and 8½ baths. The property also has two guesthouses, a formal garden, infinity pool, geothermal heating and hot-water system, solar generator and a 20,000-gallon rain-harvesting system.

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Top 10 4th-quarter home sales FROM STAFF

Here are the top 10 single-family residential real estate sales in Northeast Florida, comprising Duval and St. Johns counties, recorded in the fourth quarter of 2020.

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$4,575,000

$3,945,000

1317 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach

513 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach

Type: Single-family Lot size: 1.66 acres House size: 7,916 square feet Buyer: The Peduto Living Trust Seller: Christine D. Sallee and the Christine D. Sallee Revocable Trust Previous sale: $4,243,000 in 2005

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.28 acres House size: 3,252 square feet Buyer: The Tidewater Trust Seller: Roger M. and Betty J. O’Steen Previous sale: $3,700,000 in 2005 ST. JOHNS

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$3,699,000

$4,350,000

113 Settlers Row N., Ponte Vedra Beach

7272 Florida A1A S., St. Augustine ST. JOHNS

$7,600,000 1193 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach About the property: Oceanfront home features five bedrooms, 6½ bathrooms, outdoor entertainment area, balconies, pool and dune walkover.

Type: Single-family Lot size: 1.24 acres House size: 11,000 square feet Buyer: Wiverson C. Trecenti Seller: Wayne A. and Ann K. Galloway

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.83 acres House size: 9,498 square feet Buyer: Mark F. and Alecia J. Bailey Seller: Edward F. and Jeannie G. Emack

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.58 acres House size: 7,667 square feet Buyer: Gregory R. and Kathryn M. Blais Seller: William J. and Brittany Horschel Previous sale: $1,525,000 in 2014

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$4,000,000

ST. JOHNS

$3,600,000

519 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach

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$6,600,000

$5,650,000

$4,800,000

345 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach

409 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach

7284 Florida A1A S., St. Augustine

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.32 acres House size: 6,143 square feet Buyer: Osvaldo and Kristine M. Bilotta Seller: David L. and Patricia D. Brown Previous sale: $3,160,000 in 2013

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.31 acres House size: 5,482 square feet Buyer: Stephen D. and Penny A. Rosen Seller: Mark S. and Janice R. Gold Previous sale: $3,500,000 in 2013

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.83 acres House size: 7,291 square feet Buyer: The Lanterman Revocable Living Trust Seller: Jorge L. and Sonia Casimiro

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.28 acres House size: 3,584 square feet Buyer: Paisley Boney IV Seller: Thomas M. Willingham III, the Thomas Marion Willingham II Revocable Trust, Winburn B. Willingham and the Lila Jean Willingham Disclaimer Trust Previous sale: $705,000 in 1989

5 San Juan Circle, Ponte Vedra Beach Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.64 acres House size: 4,959 square feet Buyer: David J. and Kelly M. DeLuca Seller: Tricia R. Andrews and Jeffery K. Jenkins

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Grocery planned along Florida 207 in St. Johns Special to the Daily Record

The Sembler Co. of St. Petersburg plans a shopping center along Florida 207 in St. Augustine.

KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR

start in July or August and be completed in summer 2022. RETAIL NOTES Beyer declined comment when asked if the grocer is Publix. The size of the store offers boarding, day camp, veterinary and Natural Life to Ponte Vedra Beach: Natural “We have real estate comLife, a lifestyle brand for clothing, accessories, grooming services. matches that of Publix mittee approval from a highhome décor and gifts, has a new place to quality grocer and are working Super Markets. Banfield Pet Hospital to Collins Town live. St. Johns County is reviewing a rezoning on a lease,” he said. Center: The city is reviewing a permit application for Natural Life to convert a St. Johns County is reviewPublix spokesperson Chris application for Banfield Pet Hospital former Merrill Lynch building for the Natural ing plans for a groceryNorberg said the company does to build at 7923 Parramore Road near Life corporate and creative studio space to anchored shopping center by not have the location listed on Costco Wholesale in Collins Town Center include a small cafe/coffee shop and retail The Sembler Co. at northeast its approved sites list. in Southwest Jacksonville. David S. space for merchandise sales. The building is Florida 207 and Brickhoff Beyer said he could not comWare Architects is the architect for the at 510 Florida A1A N. in Ponte Vedra Beach. Road, east of Interstate 95, not ment on tenants or the users of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. sold 4,552-square-foot shell building at an far from St. Augustine. the outparcels, pending leases. estimated cost of $590,000 on 0.51 acres. the 1-acre property Jan. 8 to NLPV LLC, led No grocer is identified, He expects five to eight Build-out would be permitted under a by Natural Life Collections Inc. CEO Patricia although its size – 48,387 tenants in the small-shop separate permit. Hughes, for $3 million. Natural Life has been square feet – matches that of buildings, from 1,400 to 3,000 operating online at naturallife.com. It leases Publix Super Markets Inc. square feet each. Walmart upgrades: Walmart Stores LC space in Ponte Vedra Beach for its corporate The center also will have a The outparcels can be sold, applied to the city to renovate two stores at office and it continues to lease a separate 1,400-square-foot liquor store leased or built-to-suit, mean$500,000 each. The Walmart Supercenters distribution center in West Jacksonville. operated by the grocer. ing Sembler would build the at 4250 Philips Highway and at 11900 Atlantic There are two additional tenant’s structure and lease it Blvd. are in review for full remodels. Cuhaci & Pet Paradise in World Golf Village: multitenant retail shops build- to the user. Peterson Architects, Engineers, Planners of Pet Paradise opened its sixth Northeast ings – one on each side of the Beyer said four outparcels Orlando is the agent. Florida location at World Golf Village. The grocery store – totaling 15,400 are in the first phase and a fifth address is 291 Center Place Way in St. square feet. is in a second phase. Augustine. Jacksonville-based Pet Paradise Plans for the 27-acre com“We are in discussions with mercial development show five several groups,” he said. outparcels of 1 to 2.09 acres. Beyer said Sembler is buying The Sembler Co. is based in the property in two purchases. St. Petersburg. The first was completed and he “It’s a prime location to serve miles was 48,775 in the second Sembler also owns Oakleaf Josh Beyer, senior vice expects the second in May. the commuter traffic coming quarter of 2020 and will grow Town Center in Jacksonville. president of development at He said Sembler chose the and going from home,” he said. to a projected 51,017 in 2025. KMATHIS@ The Sembler Co., said Jan. 25 location because of its “treSembler materials say the There is no name yet for the JAXDAILYRECORD.COM he expects construction will mendous growth.” estimated population within center. GRHK-20001 GREYHAWK__JACKSONVILLE DAILY RECORD AD__10.375x8__SEPT2020.qxp_Layout 1 9/4/20 10:12 AM5 Page 1

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