While many younger professionals consider leaving Southwest Florida, a new survey contends this is the place to be for young entrepreneurs. The Sarasota-Manatee region topped a list of Florida’s best cities for young people to start their own business ventures, according to [...]

Advantage Sellers According to the recent numbers compiled by Florida REALTORS® from My Florida Regional MLS, April 2017 reflects an increase in single family closed sales, median sales prices and inventory in Sarasota and Manatee County as compared to April of 2016. Closed sales in Sarasota County increased by 8.3 percent for single [...]

Homes sales in Southwest Florida heated up in March, rising 8.6 percent over the year as the real estate market sailed into the end of the peak-selling season. After a cool-off in 2016 — which followed two record years — sales of previously owned single-family homes and condominiums so far in 2017 are 4.1 percent ahead of last [...]

More Inventory - The combined inventory of single-family homes and condos in the two-county area reached 8,557 in February, the highest number since April of 2012. The number of single family homes for sale in Sarasota County is up by 15.1 percent from February of last year, and is up by 6.5 percent in Manatee County. Condo inventory also [...]

Recent data produced by Florida REALTORS® for our two county area indicates January 2017 to be off to a solid start to Season sales. Inventory has been increasing in the two-county area each month since September. The result of higher inventory is that we are very [...]

Homes Sales Slow, but prices continued to rise. Home sales in Sarasota and Manatee counties fell in January as tight inventory and competition from new homes continued to take a slight edge off the movement of existing properties. There were 1,243 sales of existing homes and condominiums last month, down 2.4 percent from the 1,274 sales in [...]

Condo Market Sarasota and Manatee County Closed sales for condos increased in each county in December as compared to December 2015, with Sarasota at a 12.5 percent increase and Manatee at a 7.8 increase. Single family sales, however, are down from last year. Sarasota County decreased by 6.1, while Manatee experienced an 8.2 percent [...]

Healthy Market - Total closed sales are up by 8.7 percent from November 2015 for single family homes and condos in Sarasota and Manatee counties. Single family homes showed the most improvement from last year, with a 10.5 percent increase in the two-county area, while condos also increased by 4.5 percent. Inventory also showed improvement [...]

Sales and Median Prices Up Total closed sales in September in the two-county area are up 2.6 percent over September of last year, with single family sales up 3.8 percent, and condo sales down just under 1 percent. Single family home sales in Manatee County posted a 13.8 percent increase, while condo sales in Sarasota County were up 3.3 [...]

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. [...]