I saw this Bird Key home for sale on caravan not too long ago. It is a really nice home with stunning bay and Sarasota skyline views. It is located on the highly sought after street of Meadow Lark drive. The waterfront homes on this street look out over the bay and have gorgeous city [...]
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429 Meadow Lark Drive – Bird Key Home For Sale
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Finding a bottom in the Sarasota real estate market
Thursday, August 13th, 2009Woo hoo! I can’t help it. I like the look of this 5 year chart of single family home activity in Sarasota, Florida. The light green bars are the number of homes for sale, the dark green bars are the sold homes and the red line represents pending sales.
I had to shrink the graph to [...]
Sanderling Club on Siesta Key
Sunday, July 26th, 2009Want to see a great house? Check out the house below in the Sanderling Club on Siesta Key. The home is located at 7940 Sanderling Club Road, Sarasota, FL 34242. It is a beach home on Siesta Key with 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and over 5,200 square feet. The list price is $9,950,000. I was [...]
Frustrated Buyer Writes Letter to President Obama
Monday, July 6th, 2009A client of mine wrote a letter to President Obama today. He has been entangled in the short sale process for roughly 5 months. He is trying to buy a home at a very fair price (not trying to steal it) that has two mortgages. One of them is Bank of America and the [...]
100 Central Condo For Sale
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009Like the idea of living in an urban setting? Tired of hoping in the car for every meal, meeting with friends or shopping adventure? Take a look at this fabulous condo in 100 Central in downtown Sarasota, Florida. Residents live in the heart of downtown. With Whole Foods Market out the back door there is [...]
Gulf Coast Condos -what’s going on with the condo market?
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Gulf Coast condo activity is picking up!
All along the Gulf Coast condo sales have been picking up. This appears to be true from the Sarasota condo market all the way to the Gulf Shores Alabama Condo market .
I am sure you are aware that the condo market had become extremely overbuilt in the go go [...]
Sarasota Neighborhoods
Saturday, May 16th, 2009Looking for a home in Sarasota, Florida? I put a together a Sarasota Neighborhoods page on my real estate website – luxurysarasotarealestate.com. There is a list of over 150 neighborhoods in the Sarasota/Bradenton area. You can find neighborhoods on the various barrier islands like Siesta Key, Longboat Key, Casey Key, Bird Key and Lido Key. [...]
Chasing the Market Down
Monday, April 27th, 2009I will preface this post by saying that Tom Kelley with Signature Sotheby’s International Realtor is a good buddy of mine and a great Realtor. You can see him here.
Tom has been trying to sell his home in Deer Creek since October 2006. He originally listed the home for $675,000. At the time I was [...]
Does it say “Tour Guide” on my forehead?
Monday, March 30th, 2009So I get a series of emails last weekend from a prospect. He was asking about some condos in the Sarasota, Florida area and wanted more information on the condos. He wanted to set up appointments to see a few of them this coming weekend – April 4th. I sent him more information on the [...]
Markets face ‘irrational pessimism’
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009You’ve heard of “irrational exuberance,” right? That’s the expression Alan Greenspan coined more than a decade ago when he warned that investors could be bidding stock prices too high. His worry was that escalating asset values were trumping reality.
These days, the opposite seems to be the case. Call it “irrational pessimism,” a fear that stock [...]
