Property sales for the year 2012 were the fourth highest in the 90-year history of the Sarasota Association of Realtors®, achieving 9,169 total sales.
In 2003, sales in our market hit 9,697, followed by 11,267 in 2004 (the current all-time high) and 10,562 in 2005. The annual sales dropped to 6,358 in 2006 and bottomed out [...]

More good news about the Sarasota real estate market. The Sarasota Association of Realtors issued the following press release today.
With 864 closed sales transactions in June 2012, the Sarasota real estate market achieved the highest level of quarterly sales in seven years, with 2,604 sales from April through June. The 864 closed transactions in June [...]

AmericanStyle Magazine announced the Top 25 Cities for Art (ranked by population into three categories of small, mid-sized and large). Sarasota skyrocketed to first place on the list, and Bradenton claiming the #2 spot.
In the small cities category, which includes all cities with populations less than 100,000, Sarasota was ranked #5 for the past two [...]

TopRetirements.com published a list of best places to retire in the US – with 5 places being in Florida and Sarasota making it to the top!
Here is what made Sarasota No. 1:
Sarasota, Florida Our top pick on Florida’s Gulf Coast has so many things going for it. The economics are very attractive: median home prices [...]

Luxury Sarasota Home Sales Dec 2011
Sarasota – Connecticut residents Neal and Sandra DeFeo bought the most expensive luxury property in Sarasota County in December – a 4,239-square-foot house off Shell Road on Siesta Key. The DeFeo’s paid $3.015 million, or $1.1 million less than Kevin D. Cogan paid in May 2006.
All told, 18 luxury homes [...]

Very few communities in the nation can compete with Sarasota in terms of affordable home values, climate, culture, amenities and the wealth of properties offered here.

According to the Sarasota Association of Realtors, November 2011 property transactions in the Sarasota real estate market totaled 602, up 12.7 percent over last November.
The real estate report from Barbara [...]

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Looking for a new place to call home? Florida Travel + Life picked Sarasota as #1 place to live in Florida!
Here is what they have to say about why Sarasota made the top of the list:

Sarasota has long lured the gifted and creative to its Gulf of Mexico shores. Perhaps it’s the turquoise-tinged water, the [...]

Sarasota got featured on the Today Show as the #1 market where it is time to buy!
„Today“ contributor and Real Estate Expert Barbara Corcoran picked the cities where prices have dropped the most during the downturn, but in the last quarter, prices are shooting up.
 

So if you´re in search of a home or investment property in [...]

Traveling in the near future? Be sure to grab a copy of US Airways magazine, which features a 46-page spread on our beautiful city and its cultural richness.

Here is an excerpt:
One of the key attractions of Sarasota County has been, well, its keys — six barrier islands that lie between the Sarasota Bay and the [...]

Forbes – using Zillow data - recently created a list of “America’s Recession-Resistant Cities For Real Estate.” Florida, one of the states to suffer most from the real estate boom and bust,  contributes six cities to our list – more than any other state. Sarasota came in on #7!
Here are some excerpts from a Sarasota Herald article [...]