As we near the fall season in Sarasota and the surrounding area, many are planning and strategizing what they want to accomplish for the remainder of the year. According to buying trends in our region, this is around the time people start seriously deciding they want to buy a home. Everyone wants a shiny new house with the latest [...]

Our illustrious region has been well-designed over the years to harmoniously blend magnificent beaches, protected estuaries and wildlife preserves, and miles upon miles of nature trails with luxury real estate and cultural downtown city life. Today marks the [...]

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Each month at The Saunders Blog, we channel our inner Barbara Walters and pose a series of questions to the agents, staff or management of Michael Saunders & Company. Here, we interview Dina Van Duyne, who this March will be celebrating her 36^th year with the company – that’s almost as long as Michael herself! Officially, Dina is the [...]

No matter how you slice it, 2013 was an exceptional year for Southwest Florida’s housing market.  In fact, the Sarasota Association of Realtors has officially reported its second most productive year ever in terms of the total number of properties sold.  Indeed, were it not for the shortfall in available properties that these many months [...]

Visitors to Sarasota’s downtown are in for a tuneful treat - a new interactive art project just got underway involving local artists, musicians, and well, pedestrians. Called “Sarasota Keys,” The Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County coordinated the addition of six colorful pianos to the downtown landscape.

Anyone with a desire to run their fingers over the ivories can have a go! (Watch as the crowd begins to grow bigger and [...]

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 [...]