News from the Sarasota And Manatee Real Estate Market:

Resource: SARASOTA MAGAZINE By Ilene Denton, although written Back in 2015 this article still applies in Today’s real estate world! Photo Credits: SARASOTA MAGAZINE Before You Build Five smart questions to ask up front. Building a new home can be deeply satisfying, or it can be fraught with tension and regret. After all, it’s a complex […]

Now Is the Best Time to Sell a Home in Lakewood Ranch, Florida in 2021

    For years now, affordable housing in Lakewood Ranch has been hard to come by. There were years, like when SMR first started developing here and then post recession years when there were many short sale & foreclosures available. However, now, SMR’s answer to affordable housing is more condominiums, townhouses and apartment dwellings. There […]

Small Manatee-Sarasota, U.S. banks expand commercial lending

Resource: BRADENTON HERALD By Kevin G. Hall and Dian Zhang Smaller banks have sharply stepped up lending for commercial real estate development and business expansion, an important sign the economy is shedding the last vestiges of the Great Recession. These loans underwritten by smaller banks — regional banks with assets of less than $50 billion […]

Market Snapshot: Prestancia Manors

Resource: REAL ESTATE By Online staff , Herald-Tribune Photo Credits: Harold Bubil Prestancia, a gated golf-course community in Palmer Ranch, was named after an old Spanish word meaning “excellence.” It seems appropriate for one of the first neighborhoods developed on land once owned by Bertha Palmer, the Chicago socialite who fell in love with Sarasota upon her […]

News from the Sarasota Real Estate Market: April 2015

Resource: SARASOTA MAGAZINE By Ilene Denton Photo Credits: SARASOTA MAGAZINE Before You Build Five smart questions to ask up front. Building a new home can be deeply satisfying, or it can be fraught with tension and regret. After all, it’s a complex job that can take 16 to 52 weeks—or sometimes longer—as Sarasota contractor John Cannon […]

Now Is the Best Time to Buy a Home in Sarasota, FL

Affordable housing in Sarasota was hard to come by during the real estate boom years. Like many resort areas throughout the country, Sarasota’s beautiful beaches and natural scenery attracted speculative investors, driving up demand and home prices and spurring new development. Many Sarasota buyers are snatching up homes for a median sale price of $170,000. […]

NEW Testimonial – A BIG THANK YOU TO MICHELLE and ROY !

I am writing this message in regards to Michelle and Roy Dunbar. In July of this year we contracted with Caldwell Bankers through Michelle and Roy, to represent my wife and I in the sale of our home in Bradenwoods. Within a couple of days of our initial meeting Michelle was able to present us […]

How The Sarasota Real Estate Business Is Progressing

Resource: The Weekly By Francis Kyle SARASOTA — It’s safe to say that the Sarasota real estate business is now booming. With recent downtown condos being sold and luxurious estates, the real estate market in this beautiful city is seeing its share of progress.There are numerous luxurious high-rise condominium projects that are in the works for […]