With an average year round temperature of 73 degrees, Southwest Florida has a long history with the sport of golf. In fact,  Sarasota was home to one of the first golf courses in the United States when Colonel John Hamilton Gillespie cleared a spot in the woods in 1886 near present-day downtown to build a practice course consisting of two [...]

Join us this weekend in Manatee County for our final in a series of open house days.  View the full list of open houses below.

BRADENTON

5211 21ST AVENUE W. $639,999.

13106 HARRIERS PLACE. $625,000.

4739 88TH STREET E. $580,000.

4910 18TH AVENUE W. $549,000.

8111 12TH AVENUE NW. $389,000.

5131 54TH STREET W. $319,000.

 

LAKEWOOD RANCH

8306 FARINGTON [...]

Join us in Manatee County for a Sunday series of open house days. We are continuing the event this Sunday, November 13 from 1:00pm-4:00pm. View the full list of open houses [...]

Join us in Manatee County for a Sunday series of open house days. We are kicking it off this Sunday, October 30th from 1:00pm-4:00pm. View the full list of open houses below.

ANNA MARIA ISLAND

518 VILLA ROSA WAY. $1,695,000. Ken Kavanaugh, 941-799-1943. A4143739

2907 AVENUE C. $949,000. Michael Habony, 941-920-2494. A4166866

BRADEN RIVER

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Michael Saunders & Company is proud to announce several successful closings and leases made possible through the professional representation of our agents who work each day to fulfill the unique needs of commercial customers in buying, selling, or [...]

University Park is a popular area of Sarasota/Bradenton these days. Between the new Mall at University Town Center, the Benderson Rowing Park to the south, and residential and commercial developments popping up in the surrounding areas, what was twenty years ago thought to be “out east” is now central to just about everything. And in a [...]

With the Mall at University Town Center opening October 16^th, the excitement for the addition of 100 new stores and restaurants to the Sarasota area is so palpable, it can be cut with a sharp shopping bag. So, we polled part of the management team to find out which new boutiques or restaurants they can’t wait to visit. Check out their [...]

How does a hotel that hasn’t been built yet pay dividends to the region nearly two years before welcoming its first paying guests? Virginia Haley, president of Visit Sarasota—the county’s lead tourism bureau—knows the answer.  Moments before joining other civic leaders at last week’s groundbreaking for the new Westin Sarasota [...]

“Look at your shopping centers.  Are they going down?  Or coming back?” With this simple query, Todd Mathes—the director of development for Benderson Development—prefaced his recent update on the retail market in Sarasota-Manatee before an audience of over 200 agents from [...]