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A Moveable Feast

After 36 Years on Palm Avenue, Caragiulos Is Moving to Ringling Boulevard Later This Year

The family-owned Italian restaurant is preparing for a fresh start while also honoring its long local legacy.

01/20/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Holding Main Ground

Two Major Buildings in Downtown Sarasota Have Sold for $13 Million

Sarasota-based Baird, Inc. purchased the Sunburn Cannabis Dispensary and Fit2Run buildings for $13 million—but the group plans to keep the Art Deco-style buildings the way they are.

01/17/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Rooms with a View

65 New Luxury Units Are Going Up on Lido Key Beach

The newly built Rosewood Residences condo tower sits on the former site of Coquina on The Beach and Gulf Beach Resort Motel. Prices start at $6.8 million.

01/15/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Sprawlin' and Ballin'

Lakewood Ranch Is a Top Master-Planned Community–Again

For the seventh consecutive year, the master-planned community earned recognition for its sales.

01/09/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Looking Ahead

From Storms to Stability, Three Local Realtors Share Their Predictions for 2025

Drayton Saunders, Judie Berger and Robert Goldman talk price trends, storm impacts and what to expect this year.

01/03/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Year in Review

The Most Expensive Residential Sales of 2024

Despite back-to-back hurricanes and an overall cooldown, people’s pads actually got pricier in 2024.

12/30/2024 By Kim Doleatto

Q & A

New Realtor Association President Debi Reynolds Shares Her Insights on the Local Market

Reynolds shares her answer to the big question: After back-to-back hurricanes, what will the real estate market look like in 2025?

12/23/2024 By Kim Doleatto

Real Estate Report

It's Rising Inventory, Slowing Sales and a More Balanced Market in Sarasota and Manatee Counties

The latest real estate data shows longer time to contract and growing inventory. The median price for a single-family home in Sarasota County is now $490,000 and $430,000 in Manatee County.

12/20/2024 By Kim Doleatto

Year in Review

The Most Notable Real Estate Stories of 2024

New developments galore. A catastrophic hurricane season. Record sales. Headway on affordable housing. It was quite a year for the local real estate market.

12/18/2024 By Kim Doleatto

Spared!

Local Leaders Strike Deal to Save the Colson Hotel for Good

Recently slated for demolition to make way for new townhomes, the historic hotel in the Rosemary District has officially been saved.

12/17/2024 By Kim Doleatto

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Fruitville Hospitality

A New Hotel Is Probably Coming to Downtown Sarasota

A developer purchased three single-story addresses on Fruitville Road that, if approved, would be demolished to make way for a proposed 10-story hotel.

12/16/2024 By Kim Doleatto

Palm Up

Another Condo Development Is Going Up in Downtown Sarasota

With five stories and 12 units, 625 Sarasota at The Palm broke ground last week. Prices start at around $2.5 million each.

11/26/2024 By Kim Doleatto

real estate report

From Surge to Slowdown, Sarasota-Manatee Housing Market Faces Shifting Tides

Closed sales drop, inventory rises and time-to-sale stretches as the real estate market responds to economic pressures and storm recovery.

11/22/2024 By Kim Doleatto

Q & A

Three Local Realtors Share Their Thoughts on Sarasota's Post-Hurricane Residential Real Estate Market

Debi Reynolds, Terrence Cook and Tony Barrett discuss the effects of an unprecedented hurricane season on the local market, which was already experiencing a shift.

11/19/2024 By Kim Doleatto

Sunny Side Up

Sarasota Ranks No. 4 on U.S. News & World Report's List of Best Places to Retire in 2025

This year's list marked Sarasota's return to the top five for the first time since 2021.

11/18/2024 By Kim Doleatto

Sneak Peek

Inside Aster & Links, Downtown Sarasota's Newest Luxury Rental Development

Two 10-story buildings bring 420 units to the market, plus 50,000 square feet of retail space. Let's take a look inside.

11/15/2024 By Kim Doleatto

Engle-Would

New Residential Construction Is Breaking Ground in Englewood

PulteGroup is launching The Shores at Stillwater, a 256-unit residential development with prices starting in the mid-$300,000s. In this post-hurricane world, there could be increased demand for new construction.

11/08/2024 By Kim Doleatto

Born Again

The Oldest Home in Bradenton Is on the Market

Built in 1871 by some of the area's first settlers, the restored Tole Fogarty House proved history reigns. Now it can be yours for $2.15 million.

11/08/2024 By Kim Doleatto

Venice Rising

Almost 300 New Rental Units Are Headed to Venice

Set to break ground in January and identified as "attainable housing," Altera Jacaranda will bring 280 one- to three-bedroom rental units divided among five four-story buildings.

11/06/2024 By Kim Doleatto

Condo High

A Record-Crushing Condo Sale Bucks a Market Slump

At $21,244,000, a double condo sale at the Residences at the St. Regis Longboat Key Resort shows that hurricanes can't stifle the need for more beach.

11/04/2024 By Kim Doleatto

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