Southwest Florida’s home buying season is in full swing — and it’s shaping up to be one of the busiest ever. Despite rapidly rising home prices and lingering inventory woes, homes from Parrish to Punta Gorda continue to change hands at the fastest clip on record, and most industry watchers don’t foresee it slowing any time soon. [...]

Sarasota Area Home Prices Climb 6.9 Percent

Home prices in the Sarasota-Manatee region climbed 6.9 percent in January compared with last year, the most in six months. The increase topped the Florida and U.S. gains, data provider CoreLogic reported Tuesday. Single-family homes’ prices rose even more — [...]

Sarasota Tourism - More people are coming to the Sarasota area on vacation than ever before.

In 2014, Sarasota County topped a 70 percent hotel occupancy rate for the first time in history, said Virginia Haley, president of Visit Sarasota, the county’s tourism [...]

Oscar Worthy in Southwest Florida

Topping the List To wit, Southwest Florida perennially tops just about any list of America’s best places to live, work, play, vacation, start a business, buy a home or retire.  Our beaches are repeatedly ranked among the most beautiful in the world, our public schools among the highest-rated academically in all of Florida; and our [...]