In addition to bringing back some form of seating to Five Points, city staff will experiment with other opportunities to increase activity at the popular downtown park. If you want a place to sit down in Selby Five Points Park, you’ll be in luck soon — although there’s still no set plan for what exactly the new seating will look like. [...]

The owner of the former Sarasota Quay property is taking initial steps toward development.

GreenPointe Communities, which paid $27 million for the 14-acre bayfront site last December, expects to submit a formal development plan to the city of Sarasota early 2016.

The project, called "Sarasota Bayside," will - for now - retain the scope of the development that was approved eight years ago, GreenPointe regional president Rick Harcrow said [...]

Sarasota Market News - The October real estate market in Sarasota and Manatee counties remained strong, with overall sales slightly lower than September and last October, but median sale prices up substantially over last year at this time. [...]

The Sunshine State welcomed an estimated 79.1 million visitors during the first nine months of 2015, the most of any such period in Florida's history.

The nine-month count was a 5.5 percent increase when compared with the same period in 2014.

The third quarter of this year saw an estimated 25.5 million visitors, an increase of 6.8 percent, [...]

SARASOTA - Sarasota has been riding high in the rankings of desirable places to live for the last few years. Now we can add “second-best place to retire” to the trophy shelf, courtesy of Livability. com — a website that slices data on small-to-medium-sized cities in a bunch of different ways. BEST PLACES TO RETIRE 1. Santa Barbara, [...]

Sales Strong in September

Property sales in Sarasota and Manatee counties were somewhat slower in September 2015, but the drop off from August was expected after an unprecedented six month run of record-setting closings. In addition, the start of fall 2015 looks a lot like the same time last year, but with one major exception. [...]

Home buyers in Southwest Florida are still paying with cash at one of the fastest rates in the nation.

Several recent studies show the Sarasota-Bradenton metro area maintains a higher percentage of cash buyers than almost anywhere else in the U.S. It's a similar situation throughout Florida. Of the 10 metro areas with the highest share of [...]

CoreLogic recently released their 2015 2nd Quarter Equity Report which revealed that 759,000 properties had regained equity in the last quarter. That means that 91% of all mortgaged properties (approximately 45.9 million) are now in a positive equity position. Anand Nallathambi, president and CEO of CoreLogic, reported: “For much of the [...]