As recently as last spring, the Sarasota-Manatee metro area was ranked second in the nation for its large percentage of residential homes for sale paid for in cash.  But that trend—which at its peak involved two-thirds of all sales—has begun to ebb. By the second quarter of 2015, a 27% rise in local mortgage originations had propelled [...]

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I was recently treated to a tour of Granada Park. An intimate enclave of only 25 homes, Granada Park is located centrally in Sarasota, “West of the Trail”.  It offers low maintenance, gated living convenient to Siesta Key and downtown. This beautifully-planned neighborhood is situated not far from the Publix at Paradise Plaza (which, if you didn’t know, Publix was just ranked the [...]

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Michael Saunders & Company’s affiliate specializing in luxury real estate and the international market, Luxury Portfolio, has released their 2015 white paper examining the emerging class of the global affluent. The study takes an in depth look at consumers in the top 10% in a dozen countries spanning North American, Europe and [...]

There are reams of evidence to support the fact that purchasing a home in today’s housing market is cheaper than renting.  Yet once convinced that buying is the sensible thing to do, many aspiring homebuyers have seen their hopes dashed by many of today’s strict mortgage lending requirements.  That is, until recently. It was lax [...]