Southwest Florida's Leading Luxury Real Estate Firm Adds Award-Winning Agent to Its Distinguished Team

Michael Saunders & Company, a premier luxury real estate firm and member of Luxury Portfolio International, proudly announces the addition of distinguished REALTOR® Lesley Barton to its team of exceptional agents. With nearly a decade of [...]

 

Leading luxury real estate team rejoins the market leader in Southwest Florida

The Fox Leiter Team, recognized as one of the region's most successful real estate teams, has announced their return to Michael Saunders & Company. With decades of combined experience in the Sarasota luxury market, they bring extensive market knowledge and proven [...]

 

The VanDuren Group Brings Distinguished Track Record and Proven Excellence

Michael Saunders & Company is proud to announce that Mark and Sheryl VanDuren, an award-winning real estate team recognized among the top 1% of agents in Sarasota and Manatee counties, have joined the firm’s Venice/Wellen Park office. With a reputation for [...]

Michael Saunders & Company's Mid-Longboat Key office’s real estate agents will soon move to the company’s larger South Longboat Key office 3½ miles away, bringing all its island agents under one roof. The company’s recently renovated two-story office at 440 Gulf of Mexico Drive provides a spacious, welcoming environment that will [...]

Michael Saunders & Company® has been a catalyst for the growth and appeal of Florida’s Gulf Coast, as Michael, Saunders, our founder and CEO, built a company just as special as the place it was born. So, for our second piece dedicated to 2021, we are looking at what it means to create a community for the future. With a longstanding [...]

One of the more prominent customer questions to come out of the acceleration of our Gulf Coast real estate market is "what makes today different from the boom years of the early 2000s?" Looking just at the numbers without context, it's easy to understand how it could look like we're headed toward a bubble. Drayton Saunders, President of [...]

Symbolizing hope and positivity going into the new year, MSC Foundation council members virtually united in December 2020 to award a total of $66,500 to local organizations. This marked the largest contribution since the formation of the Foundation in 2011. Embarking on its [...]

Much has happened since our spring issue of SaundersBest. In the days since – we’ve all been touched by the Covid-19 pandemic - that sadly took many lives- causing great heartache while affecting worldwide economic conditions. It is heartbreaking to see the toll of personal loss and financial hardship that this pandemic has caused [...]

The fourth quarter of 2019 continued to build upon the positive growth and buyer energy seen in previous quarters showing pending sales up 6.7%, closed sales up 5.4% and median price appreciating 2%. Inventory remains down slightly, both overall and in new listings coming to market, with single-family homes taking the brunt of that [...]

The third quarter of 2019 saw the same stabilized growth of Q2 in both new inventory and median sales price. Consistent with a slower summer season, demand cooled with a slight bump of activity in August. Home values are up 2%, with average days on market increasing 8%, showing although buyers are taking their time, pricing is in line with [...]