• Ryland Homes has named Julian “Butch” Thanos as home builder for the North Florida division and also appointed Tracy Miller as a sales manager.
• Nancy Shearer, Shirley Poole, Kimberly King and Suzi Ackerman have joined Watson Realty Corp.’s Mandarin North office.
• Vanguard GMAC has opened an office on Atlantic Blvd. in Jacksonville. The staff includes Dana Peterman, Cyette Guerra, Gene Guerra, Cindy Gavin, Tita Garcia, Tonya Anderstrom, Dan Bird, Lydia Learn, Kirk Killebrew, Stan Picus, Nell Musal, Kim Barnett, Tedd Barnett, Kathy Oehler, Nick Ziggas, Ashley Szczukowski, Glenn Brotsker, John Higginbotham, John Smith, Marci-Miller Smith, Shelly Zeisel, Richard Zeiser and Carl Geyer.
• The Fred Miller Group has opened an office in San Marco.
• Ryland Homes in Jacksonville has named Kenny Lee as a builder at Oakleaf Plantation, where the home building company is active in five neighborhoods.
• The site and bulkhead work at the Ortega River Club Condominiums will begin this month and construction will start this fall. Developer Heyward Cantrell said all reservations have been converted to contracts and construction will begin this fall.