You can tour the 19^th annual Jewels on the Bay Designer Showhouse January 19 – February 16. Benefiting the Boys and Girls Club of Sarasota County, twenty-three of Sarasota’s most talented designers have transformed every room of a spectacular bayfront estate. Located at 2145 Alameda Avenue, this Michael Saunders & Company Sarasota home for [...]

Living on Florida's Gulf Coast, we are used to seeing the beauty of the natural world all around us. Sometimes though, the beauty of things that you can’t see is what really counts. This past Friday, MSC agents and staff gathered at the [...]

The newest and most overused phrase in the popular lexicon has got to be “polar vortex.”  Loosely defined, a polar vortex is an unusually frigid weather event usually reserved for the much heartier denizens of Canada.   Or so we’ve heard.  But when one of these weather patterns rudely stumbled across the border into the lower [...]

In 2013 there were over 2 million visits to michaelsaunders.com.  With so many views of Manatee, Charlotte, and Sarasota homes for sale, we were curious just which properties on the Gulf Coast attracted the most attention. Here they are in reverse order: 10. 3315 Bayshore Rd This Sarasota estate in the Museum area is a true hidden gem [...]

I like to do my fair share of antiquing. It’s all about finding that perfect item – overlooked by everyone else (maybe even the shop owner) – but you know it’s true worth and, by golly, you are buying it and bringing it home with you! Fortunately, there is a place in southwest Florida where you may just uncover that forgotten [...]

“Go get my pocket book,” said Christine Del Monte’s buyer, Barbara. It was at a bustling broker’s tour on a Tuesday morning in November. Barbara had just stepped through the front door of a contemporary Sarasota home for sale located West of the Trail. An interior decorator with a discerning eye, she stood in the living room of the [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or perhaps dealing with this northeastern winter storm), chances are you have already heard about ‘Ohana, Michael Saunders & Company’s magnificent new listing that went on the market just last month. Word of this breathtaking beachfront estate has already spread through all the local news [...]