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 [...]

Short Sale – now is the time to act!
A short-term IRS program that ignores lender-forgiven mortgage debt ends Dec. 31; if you need to short sale your home, you should consider listing now!
You may owe federal income taxes in 2013 if you have a short sale, foreclosure after this year. Now is the time to [...]

International buyers love Florida!
When it comes to foreigners looking to plant roots in the United States, Florida is the hot spot.
The Sunshine State is the most popular among foreign home buyers with 31 percent of all home purchases made there coming from foreign residents, according to a study by Credit Sesame, an online credit and [...]

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), [...]

Though the past four years have seen many cities suffering from large  numbers of foreclosures and a loss in home values, ten of these real estate  markets are now leading the nation towards a general recovery and stability of  the housing sector.  The six markets included – Miami, Orlando, Ft. Myers/Cape Coral, Ft. Lauderdale, Sarasota/Bradenton [...]

After a year of fewer foreclosures, as bankers reeled from revelations that they were falsifying documents in foreclosure cases, the latest monthly numbers suggest banks are starting to repossess houses again.
Here is an excerpt of an interesting article from the Bradenton Herald on this topic:
The big banks are back in the foreclosure business.
 After a year of [...]

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 [...]

Summertime is a popular time for people with children to move since school is out. Moving can be expensive, but the IRS offers 10 tax tips on deducting some of those expenses if your move is related to starting a new job or a new job location.

Move must be closely related to start of work [...]

From time to time the IRS releases tips designed to help people with their taxes. Some of these are quite useful.
If you have a gain from the sale of your main home, you may qualify to exclude all or part of that gain from your income. Here are ten tips from the IRS to keep [...]

The median sales price of listed single-family homes in July was $250,000,  the highest since December 2009, according to the most recent multiple listings report from the Manatee Association of Realtors. The median price of condominiums sold, $121,500, is at the highest point since September 2010. That statistic is just one of several positive developments [...]