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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ah, prognostication. It’s a time-honored profession and one that’s hard to beat in terms of job security. In what other profession can you get it wrong half the time and still be considered pretty good at what you do? If “Bob in accounting” had that kind of track record, he’d be out on the street […]
Once you’ve hit the big time, there are certain perks you become entitled to enjoy: first-class travel, better bottles of wine, a garage full of expensive cars, and a vacation home. But all too often this last luxury takes the shape of a seasonal ski lodge or beach house, usually a good distance from your […]
Counting the Lexuses, BMWs and Mercedes on U.S. 41? This might save you time. One out of eight of the people keeping you company at the stoplights have a household net worth of $1 million or more, not counting their main home. If you think that is a good thing, stick around. By the year […]
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 […]
From Inc. Magazine, May 2006 | Page: 102 By: Joel Kotkin and Michael A. Shires
Employment Base of 150,000-450,000.
1 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida
Hurricanes haven’t dampened population growth in this Gulf Coast area–it’s up 16 percent, to more than 500,000, since 2000. Among the key job generators: tourism, construction, and new service firms, many founded by refugees from […]
The strategy calls for a minimum of affordable housing units in projects.
SARASOTA — A hotly debated strategy for getting more affordable housing built in and near downtown received a tentative endorsement from a divided City Commission on Tuesday night.
The strategy calls for giving developers the right to build two or four times as many homes […]
WASHINGTON — April 11, 2006 — College graduates are flocking to America’s big cities, chasing jobs and culture and driving up home prices. Though many of the largest cities have lost population in the past three decades, nearly all have added college graduates, an analysis by The Associated Press found.
The findings offer hope for urban […]
SARASOTA COUNTY — Like anyone in the Sunshine State who’s come into some money, Sarasota County wants to buy beachfront property.
A 19 percent jump in the value of taxable property will bring extra cash into county coffers next year. As a result, the county could use $10 million of this money to buy boat ramps, […]
PALMETTO — Construction on the third of five buildings has begun at Laguna at Rivera Dunes, which is proving to be a quick seller. The first two buildings facing the harbor are sold out, except for a penthouse at $1,269,000. Building III, facing the river, has 36 of 42 condominiums under contract.
“Boating has been a […]