Great ROAD TRIP article about Bradenton and Anna Maria Island in the Pittsburgh Tribune ~ highlights McKechnie Field, Riverwalk, Village of the Arts, South Florida Museum, and much more.
Baseball isn’t the only game in town in Bradenton, Fla.
Dedicated Pittsburgh Pirates fans arriving from a long line drive of a road trip or a relatively short flight [...]

Bradenton, FL, has been selected by Where to Retire, the only magazine in America geared toward helping people with retirement relocation decisions, as a top retirement destination and will be profiled in the July/August 2012 issue, available nationwide on June 19, 2012.
Where to Retire editor Mary Lu Abbott said Bradenton possesses qualities important to today’s [...]

Bradenton / Sarasota is the #3 most popular area in the nation for home buyers who are searching for homes using the internet.
What does this mean to you if you’re selling a home?  It means that you should be choosing a company who offers the strongest online marketing available: Sea to Sky Realty!
With our company your [...]

Lakewood Ranch ranked as a top-10 selling community by national real estate consulting firm.
California-based John Burns Consulting has ranked Lakewood Ranch as one of the top selling master  planned communities in the United States with 391 new home sales in 2011. Coming  in at number 9, Lakewood Ranch outpaced many other well-established and iconic communities. This is the [...]

More good news for the Bradenton/Sarasota Real Estate Market: Forbes.com names the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota area as #1 area where Americans are hunting for homes!
All of the top 10 cities “picking up strength” are in the Sun Belt. Florida dominates the list with five snow bird hubs in the top 10: the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota area (No.1), [...]

Florida Travel + Life recently ranked our beaches on Anna Maria Island as some of the BEST around!
They feature Anna Maria Island as the place that offers an authentic taste of island living with best beaches for long beach walks, cute beach boutiques, chilled-out beach cafés, funky beach bars - and of course they are right!!!
Here’s the article:

Best Florida Beaches: [...]

Florida Island Living At Its Very Best!
Anna Maria Sound is located in the city of Bradenton, Manatee County, Florida. Harbour Isle, located in beautiful Perico Island, is just minutes away from Anna Maria Island, with its quaint business districts, award-winning restaurants, specialty shops, and arts and entertainment venues that make it one of the nation’s favorite [...]

Drive-out-of-Florida deals are back for 2011 spring and early summer travel.
Each year, there are heavily discounted rates offered to move cars out of Florida after the popular winter-travel season ends. These deals give travelers and vacationers cheap rentals during their Florida vacations. Book one, and you’ll get to see more of the U.S. when you drive out [...]

BRADENTON - The Suncoast population is booming, especially in Manatee County. That’s just one of the new things the 2010 U.S. Census is showing us.
We learned already from the census that Florida will gain two seats in congress due to its population growth. But digging into numbers for Sarasota and Manatee counties shows that we are [...]

MANATEE — Bradenton/Manatee County has again been named among the nation’s 100 Best Communities for Young People because of its abundance of leadership and service opportunities for youth, according to America’s Promise Alliance, a partnership organization dedicated to youth and children.
The 2010 recognition marks the fourth win for Bradenton/Manatee County in the competition. Sarasota also [...]