The market for homes throughout our region has been—and indeed remains—a veritable beehive of activity.   Buyers in unprecedented numbers continue to comb every corner of our Gulf Coast communities searching for properties in all price ranges; making ours one of the most active real estate markets in Florida, if not the country.  [...]

You don’t have to love major league baseball to love the spectacle of attending a game, especially when it is played under glorious blue skies with warm, balmy breezes rustling the palms and bright orange pennants flapping aloft at Ed Smith Stadium—or “Birdland South,” as the ball park is officially known when the [...]

Last week we saw a set of statistics that adds an interesting perspective to Florida’s explosive new population growth. In 1910, New York had 43 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives while Florida had four.  Today both states have 27 representatives in the House, with Florida having recently moved past New York to become the third [...]

The region’s housing market performed exceptionally well in 2015. With that in mind, below are nine reasons why there has rarely been a better time to sell a property. 1. Property sales have increased Last year, nearly 28,000 properties were sold throughout Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte Counties; a 7% increase over 2014—itself an [...]

Toward the end of 2015, Headlight Data—a national aggregator of demographic and workforce data—cited the Sarasota-Bradenton-North Port metro area for having the highest percentage of baby boomers of any comparable mid-sized market in America. That was music to our ears, since baby boomers rarely settle for second best when it comes to [...]

Less than a month ago—on November 9^th—a single painting by Amedeo Modigliani fetched the breathtaking sum of $170.4 million at Christie’s Fine Art Auction House, in New York.  In doing so, it established a new world record for a painting by Modigliani; and achieved one of the highest prices ever paid for a work of art at auction. [...]

It was a day-long event never before seen on this side of the Atlantic; and definitely a first for Sarasota—if not our hemisphere.  So naturally we arrived at last year’s American debut of “PINC” bristling with excitement and high expectations, even though most of us had absolutely no clue what to expect. At day’s end, however, [...]

There have been so many articles comparing “owning vs. renting” that a Google search of the phrase yields page after page of results.  Clearly, if you are at a crossroads trying to decide which of the two housing paths to take, there is no shortage of advice and information to guide your thinking. [...]

This time last year, the buzz throughout Southwest Florida’s commercial real estate market focused on the pending debut of the Mall at University Town Center; and whether its opening would establish a new center of gravity for the region’s retail sector. Last week, even as the mall celebrated a successful first year, the fear that it [...]

Decisions. Decisions. Shopping for a Manatee, Charlotte, or Sarasota home for sale should always be a rewarding experience. But with inventories of existing homes stuck in low, many buyers are choosing new construction as a way to create their own unique spaces. For those unacquainted with the process, how one buys a parcel of land—then [...]