Maggi Hall's West Volusia Properties merges with Adams, Cameron real-estate firm

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Part of the Downtown scene — The distinctive country-house look of West Volusia Properties has been a part of the Downtown DeLand scene since West Volusia Properties restored the historic home, starting in 2001.

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Ready for the future — DeLand activist and real-estate broker Maggi Hall is joining her West Volusia Properties firm with Adams, Cameron & Co., but don't expect her to slow down.

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Part of the new Garden District — The Florida Wild Veterinary building at 115 E. Euclid Ave. in DeLand, directly behind the West Volusia Properties office, is an example of the renovated and restored Garden District. Maggi Hall plans to spend more time here, with her veterinarian daughter, Dr. Erin Hall Holder.

Published 2-06-2008

By Pat Hatfield
BEACON STAFF WRITER

In what may be the real-estate merger of the year, DeLand real-estate broker Maggi Hall and her company, West Volusia Properties Inc., has joined forces with Adams, Cameron & Co., which wants to expand in West Volusia.

Hall founded West Volusia Properties in 2001, in a renovated house at the corner of South Woodland Boulevard and Euclid Avenue, on the edge of DeLand's Garden District, which she helped develop.

Adams, Cameron President John Adams said he and Hall have had a good relationship, ever since Hall represented the seller when Adams purchased a building across the street from West Volusia Properties on South Woodland Boulevard in DeLand a few years ago.

Recently, Hall said, "He wandered across the street and said, 'Do you want to join forces?'"

Hall said yes, and will be working with Adams as a broker-associate and an officer in the Adams, Cameron corporation.

Hall's intention has been to retire at age 65, "and that's two years away," Hall said. Working with Adams will give her time to take care of her current listings, many of which are for friends.

Adams, Cameron offers the advantages of offices throughout Volusia and Flagler counties, Hall added. Plus, "Real estate is being marketed in different ways, now, more toward the Web," and Adams, Cameron has superior Internet programs, as well as a caring, family business, she said.

The transition will allow Hall, who was a major force in cleaning up DeLand's Garden District, once a haven for crime, more time to focus on another passion: animals.

She intends to devote more time to working with her daughter, veterinarian Erin Holder, who operates Florida Wild Veterinary Hospital at 115 E. Euclid Ave. in DeLand. Holder rescues and finds adoptive homes for stray and abandoned pets, and Hall has been involved in this effort, and in supporting rescue groups such as United Humanitarians of West Volusia.

In the meantime, Adams, Cameron welcomed Hall aboard Feb. 5 with a cake with a ship atop it. The company, founded in 1963, is one the largest real-estate firms in the Volusia-Flagler area.