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Sarasota - a Decline

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Sarasota-Bradenton posted a pricing decline — 9 percent — to $291,500, though the area’s median has been trending up when compared with the last several months.
The varying pitch of pricing in the region makes perfect sense to David Lipstein, founder of Manasota Key Realty.
“Buyers are looking for bargains — there’s no question about it,” Lipstein […]

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A new housing community is going up in North Englewood. Beechwood Builders will build Heritage Creek, a single-family community to be located off State Road 776 in Englewood, a half-mile south of Manasota Beach Road.
Beechwood Builders is a custom home and remodeling builder and has been in business for more than 15 years in the […]

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Posh hotel could join Ritz

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Officials from Four Seasons, which hopes to open as many as eight new properties annually, according to its Web site, did not return a telephone call for comment.
If Four Seasons does commit, it would mark the second time the Toronto-based hotelier has considered Sarasota.
A decade ago, when plans to develop a Ritz-Carlton were jelling on […]

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Parking reversal

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Changing directions is part of Sarasota’s problem
Some Sarasota city commissioners leave us scratching our heads — such as two months ago, when they rejected parking meters as too inhospitable, then requested higher parking fines instead.
News flash: Joe Tourist doesn’t get a warm and fuzzy feeling about downtown Sarasota when he’s greeted with a big parking […]

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SELLER STRATEGIES

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

An increasing number of sellers are slashing their asking prices to generate interest, pushing down the median price. In Sarasota-Bradenton, for example, the median price went to $277,900 from $340,700 during the year-over-year period ended in October. Economist Stan Geberer of Fishkind and Associates notes that most homeowners who sell this year after making purchases […]

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SARASOTA COUNTY — It took nearly 15 years and a half-dozen proposals, but the county has finally found something it wants at Interstate 75 and University Parkway: a mini-city featuring the region’s biggest mall, 1,750 homes and a trolley system to take homeowners and shoppers to upscale stores.
As it finally won approval for University Town […]

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