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 [...]

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 [...]

We did it again! In a survey conducted by Portfolio.com Bradenton/Sarasota earns the designation as America’s most popular retirement destination. 
Portfolio.com devised a six-part formula to rank the most popular retirement destinations, using raw data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. The study encompassed all 157 metropolitan and micropolitan areas with at least 40,000 senior citizens. 

The [...]

The City of Bradenton is one of eight cities featured in a national magazine’s profile on cities that currently boast the best deals on homes.In the September/October issue of Where to Retire magazine, a national magazine geared toward helping people with retirement relocation decisions, the Bradenton-Sarasota area was named along with Ocala; Phoenix; San Diego; [...]

There are many reasons why people decide to buy a second home for retirement.
For many retirees, a second home can offer a way to stay in a comfortable and familiar neighborhood and at the same time offer an opportunity to start out on a new adventure in a new home in a new destination.
                       
Florida [...]