Real Estate and Construction, Under One Roof
One dual-licensed team handles acquisition, construction, renovation, and owner-builder guidance across the First Coast.
Conine Coastal provides four core services across Northeast Florida: real estate acquisition, construction management, investment-property renovation, and owner-builder consulting. Every engagement is led by David Conine, who holds both a Florida real estate license and a Florida general contractor license — so buying decisions and building decisions are evaluated by the same person, with the same set of facts.
Real Estate Acquisition
We help buyers and investors identify, evaluate, and acquire property across Northeast Florida.
Real estate acquisition is the search, analysis, negotiation, and purchase of a property. Because every acquisition is led by someone holding both a Florida real estate license and a Florida general contractor license, the evaluation goes beyond comparable sales — it includes a building-condition read and a realistic renovation-cost estimate before you make an offer. That matters most on dated, distressed, or investment properties, where the gap between asking price and true cost of ownership is where buyers win or lose.
What it includes
- Buyer representation and on- and off-market property sourcing
- Comparative market analysis and pricing strategy
- Construction-informed condition assessment during showings
- Offer structuring and negotiation
- Coordination through inspection, appraisal, and closing
Best for: First-time buyers, relocating families, and investors acquiring rental or flip properties.
Construction Management
We plan, schedule, budget, and oversee residential construction and renovation projects.
Construction management is the professional coordination of a building project from pre-construction planning through closeout — scope definition, budgeting, scheduling, permitting, subcontractor selection, quality control, and inspections. With a Construction Management degree and 20+ years in the field, the work is run by someone who understands both the build and the numbers, which keeps scope creep, change orders, and schedule slippage under control. For Northeast Florida specifically, that includes specifying coastal-appropriate materials and navigating county building departments in St. Johns, Nassau, and Duval.
What it includes
- Pre-construction planning, budgeting, and value engineering
- Permitting and inspection coordination
- Subcontractor selection and scheduling
- On-site quality control and progress oversight
- Change-order and cost management
Best for: Homeowners renovating, investors rehabbing, and owners building new on the First Coast.
Investment Property Renovation
We renovate rental and resale properties to maximize return, not just appearance.
Investment-property renovation is renovation scoped to a financial outcome — after-repair value (ARV), rental yield, or flip margin — rather than personal taste. The decisive skill is accurate rehab-cost estimating, which is exactly where inexperienced investors lose money. Pairing real-estate market analysis with hands-on construction estimating means the renovation budget is set against the numbers that drive return: purchase price, ARV, holding cost, and the specific improvements that move value in a given submarket and price point. A $50K kitchen makes sense in a $500K home, not a $200K one.
What it includes
- Scope-to-ARV and scope-to-yield renovation planning
- Accurate rehab cost estimating before purchase
- Improvement selection by ROI for the submarket
- Renovation project management and execution
- Coastal-durable material specification
Best for: Buy-and-hold investors, BRRRR investors, and fix-and-flip buyers in Northeast Florida.
Owner-Builder Consulting
We advise owners acting as their own general contractor on how to do it without costly mistakes.
Owner-builder consulting supports a property owner who pulls a permit as their own contractor and manages their own project. Florida allows owner-builders on their own property within limits, but the owner takes on the general contractor's responsibilities — permitting, code compliance, subcontractor coordination, liability, and the liability disclosures the building department requires. Consulting gives an owner-builder a licensed contractor's guidance on scope, sequencing, bidding subs, and the risks to avoid, without the owner having to learn it the hard way mid-project.
What it includes
- Owner-builder feasibility and risk review
- Permitting and code-compliance guidance
- Scope, sequencing, and schedule planning
- Subcontractor scoping and bid review
- On-call advisory through construction
Best for: Owners who want to self-manage a build or major renovation to save on GC overhead.
See where we work on the Northeast Florida markets we serve, or read answers to common real estate and construction investment questions.
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