Prime rib, cold shrimp and dainty cocktail nibbles lined a buffet spread at the San Antonio Country Club on a recent spring evening.Liquor, beer and wine flowed at an open bar, and there was none of the cheap stuff.

This chi-chi party was not for a wedding, bar mitzvah or any kind of celebration, really. It was a real estate sales pitch.

And the seller, Wade Dokken, isn’t a real estate broker. He’s a millionaire.

Dokken came to San Antonio in April to pitch Ameya Preserve, an 11,000-acre development near Bozeman, Mont., that is focused on nature, science, music, art and gourmet cooking as amenities. It will include 301 homes priced between $650,000 and $2.5 million.

TAVARES — Rising property values could bring in millions worth of extra tax dollars for Lake County governments this year unless state legislators clip their purse strings.

A preliminary tax roll released Thursday shows a 17 percent — roughly $3 billion — increase in land values across the county. That could rake in an extra $60 million in taxes for the county, cities and other local government agencies — many that already have had their budgets swell from years of immense real-estate development.