As reported in my Year-End Sarasota Real Estate Market Report last week, the key statistical markers are pointing toward sustained recovery.  As further evidence I am attaching the Sarasota Association of Realtor’s recently released analysis of our region’s 2011 results.  Property sales up 8.2 percent for full year 2011; prices stable For the full [...]

  All indications point to an active 2012 selling season as the Sarasota real estate market continues to show strong signs of recovery. While I think price appreciation this year will be modest, the general consensus from industry experts is that our prices bottomed out in 2011 and will continue to hover at this level through the [...]

This week Michael Saunders makes the case quite clearly that, despite the recent years of woe in the housing market, real estate remains a secure and desirable form of investment. In Michael’s weekly market report attached below, she cites data prepared by Steve Harney, a national real estate authority, in which he reports that over [...]

  In Michael Saunders’ most recent blog post, not only is it revealed that agents of our fine firm represented 11 “sides” of Sarasota’s top 10 sales in 2011 but, she also reminds us that Michael Saunders & Co. continues to be the market leader in selling the region’s luxury properties. The article further cites [...]

Prepared by Michael Moulton, CRS, Broker-Associate Michael Saunders & Co All indications point to an active fall selling season locally as the Sarasota real estate market continues to show strong signs of recovery. Our monthly average this year of 670 closed properties indicates that we currently have 6.5 months of inventory, a good measure of [...]

Prepared by Michael Moulton, CRS, Broker-Associate Michael Saunders & Co The Sarasota real estate market continues to show recovery, something that has been consistently reported in my monthly releases of statistics. Our monthly average this year of 678 closed properties indicates that we currently have slightly over six months of inventory, a good sign that [...]

Prepared by Michael Moulton, CRS, Broker-Associate Michael Saunders & Co The overall listed inventory of residential properties for sale locally is keeping steady in recent months at the equilibrium level of six months, considered neither a Buyers nor Seller’s market. Our monthly average this year of 694 closed properties indicates that we currently have six [...]

Prepared by Michael Moulton, CRS, Broker-Associate Michael Saunders & Co The sustained decline in the overall listed inventory of residential properties for sale locally, as has been reported in my last several Monthly Real Estate Reports, is on a steady path toward the equilibrium level of six months, considered neither a Buyers nor Seller’s market. [...]

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This delightful ground floor listing of mine, with beautiful bay views of White and Whale Keys, at Sutton Place on LBK is now in the hands of new owners! Congratulations to my sellers and the buyers!