Sarasota Real Estate News

Offering Incentives to Buyers
If you are like many sellers, you’ve had your Sarasota home for sale for six months to a year with a few or no nibbles, not even many showings. You’ve probably reduced the property three times, and you are completed frustrated. You are certainly not alone. Interesting articles are […]

Southwest Florida Builders See Better Year in 2007
Significant discounting is probably the reason for an uptick in new home sales according to local builder, Lee Wetherington, whose Lakewood Ranch home based building company is also seeing an increase in new homes sales. The Herald Tribune’s article points out that some buyers are not willing […]

Public Record Real Estate Sales for Week - August 23, 2007
High-end sales took the stage this week. One Bay Island home sold for $2.55 milion and three others sold on Siesta Key for $1 million or more. Sarasota real estate’s top three transactions for the week were $925,000, $850,000 and a big gap […]

Sarasota, FL, Vacation Home Paradise

On my 32nd birthday, the Smith family spent a weekend skiing at the Homestead in Hot Springs, VA. My children skied circles around me as I tried to master an old fashion rope tow. Surely, the Homestead has a chairlift now. […]