Coastal Craftsmanship

Local Builders Sweep the 2025 Aurora Awards

From show-stopping kitchens to meticulously detailed custom homes, local builders prove the Suncoast’s style is award-winning.

08/11/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Dolce Dinaro

This Longboat Key Home Just Sold for $30.3 Million—Cash

The Venetian-style estate known as Serenissima was listed for $35 million in June and sold just 25 days later. It's the most ever paid for a home on Florida's west coast outside the Naples market.

08/01/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Mamma Mia!

Behold the Area's Most Expensive Listing Ever

Dubbed "La Serenissima"—Italian for "super serene"—this opulent Italianate home's $35 million price tag makes it Sarasota and Manatee county's priciest listing to date.

06/10/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Artful Refuge

Inside the Gallery House, an Art-Filled Lido Shores Home

With architect Guy Peterson, a local couple reimagined a midcentury home. It's now for sale for $4,185,000.

05/23/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Putting on a Show

How to Stage Your Home for Sale

The National Association of Realtors estimates that staging increases home offer prices by 1 percent to 5 percent.

04/29/2025 By Tisha Leung

Gulf Grandeur

Inside a $24.95 Million Waterfront Mansion on Longboat Key

A bayfront estate seeks a record sale price on the tiny barrier island.

04/15/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Woot Woot

Sarasota Builders Won Big at This Year’s National Association of Home Builders Awards

Nautilus Custom Homes, Perrone Construction and Trinity Custom Homes stood out from the competition, taking home a total of ten awards.

03/04/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Sky High

With Two Homes on the Market for Around $30 Million, Sarasota's Officially Part of Florida’s Ultra-Luxury Real Estate Club

These Siesta Key listings signal a new peak in our market.

02/21/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Home Body

Let's Look at the Beautiful Spaces on the Junior League of Sarasota's Annual Tour of Homes

The league's 48th annual tour invites architecture and design lovers to check out decor trends and more in some of Sarasota’s prettiest neighborhoods this weekend.

02/19/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Casa Creedence

Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Stu Cook Has Listed His Sarasota Waterfront Home

The Carl Abbott-designed San Remo home that the Hall of Fame bassist shares with his wife Dana is on the market for $9.975 million.

02/05/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Home Is Where the Art Is

Home Tour: A Sarasota Home Rooted in Art and Nature

With an art studio that incorporates true northern light and a lush private garden, this Indian Beach-Sapphire shores home is a reflection of artist Melanie Whaley's creative vision. It's on the market for $3,195,000.

01/30/2025 By Kim Doleatto

Golden Age

Home Tour: A Layered, Low-Key Maximalist Downtown Sarasota Condo

A Virginia transplant designs his dream home on Golden Gate Point.

01/22/2025 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

Mamma mia

This House Is for Sale for $28.35 Million

Frescoes, marble, arches and wrought iron overfloweth in this Italian-inspired villa. It's the most expensive listing in Sarasota County right now.

09/05/2024 By Kim Doleatto

posh pods

This Polynesian-Inspired Compound Is an Old Florida Escape

Accessible only by water, these sprawling pods showcase throwback island vibes. They can all be yours for $8.95 million.

07/19/2024 By Kim Doleatto

The Lovely Bones

This Sarasota School of Architecture Home Is More Than Just Another Siesta Key Getaway

Designed by Ralph Twitchell, one of the movement’s pioneers, this home exemplifies the timelessness of the style.

06/21/2024 By Kim Doleatto

Condo Crown

This Sky-High Downtown Sarasota Condo Sold for a Record-Breaking $11.35 Million Cash

Sure, it's a buyer's market when it comes to condos—but not when they look like this.

06/17/2024 By Kim Doleatto

Aloha

Ohana, on Longboat Key, Has Sold for $19.75 Million Cash

The sprawling property, which has made waves for its sea wall, shattered Longboat Key sale records when it sold in an off-market deal.

06/05/2024 Photography by Kim Doleatto

Wandering Eye

This Siesta Key Home Just Sold for $9.25 Million. Let's Take a Look.

The sale of the waterfront home made for one of the priciest transactions in Sarasota County so far this year.

05/31/2024 By Kim Doleatto

Top Sale

Behold the Most Expensive Residential Sale in Sarasota County

Listed for just under $34 million last year, this Harbor Acres waterfront home sold for $20 million—cash.

05/14/2024 By Kim Doleatto

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