Hesitant Sellers Leave Buyers with Fewer Choices - Median sale prices for condos and single family homes continue to increase in both Sarasota and Manatee County. Sarasota County single family homes are up 10.5 percent from 2015 to $242,500, while Manatee County experienced an 11.7 percent jump from 2015 to $279,250. Year over year, [...]

Home prices in Southwest Florida still outpace nation and state increases. Single-family home prices rose 7.8 percent in the Sarasota-Manatee region in June over the year, data provider CoreLogic. Prices jumped a stronger 12.7 percent in Charlotte County. Both regions topped the gains of 7 percent for Florida and 5.7 percent for the U.S. [...]

Inventory and Median Prices - The housing data for May reveals that inventory numbers are rising along with the mercury for the Sarasota and Manatee two-county area, likely the result of [...]

Record-Breaking Sales The year 2015 was one for the record books in real estate sales for both Sarasota and Manatee counties, closing out the year with an all-time record of 20,691 in combined closed transactions, 1,302 sales above last year’s numbers. “These truly are exciting times for the real estate community, and reflects the hard [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]