Welcome to My website, designed specifically to help you discover everything you want and need to know about Sarasota.  Feel free to browse - I have several buttons across the top of this page, use them to navigate my site: 

  • Home Page - You are here!
  • Home Search - Enables you to do your own search for homes on the market here
  • Sarasota - All about Sarasota, along with links to a multitude of recreational sites and things to do
  • Our Featured Homes - Properties  listed with MY Realty Company
  • Why Buy Now - Some straight talk about buying/investing
  • Selling Your Home - Information about selling in today's market

You'll also find buttons on the left side of the page.  Browse them for general information to learn about buying and selling real estate here. 

Looking for foreclosures? You'll find a search link at the bottom of this page.

Planning to make Sarasota your home . . . or perhaps your home away from home? 

  • Did you know:  Sarasota's real estate market has been one of Florida's strongest markets over the last three years.  We have consistently out-sold surrounding areas and cities across the state.  Why? Because Sarasota is unique: it's considered the cultural center of FLorida, and it's big-city amenities and small town ambience make it one of the most popular vacation and retirement spots in Florida. 
  • Did you know:  On October 6, 2009 Barbara Corcoran, real estate guru, named Sarasota the number one city in the US to buy real estate. Her criteria: prices in Sarasota dropped a full one third in the last year alone. However, more recently prices have increased by 13%, a significant rebound.

That makes our beautiful city a great place to live and a fabulous place to invest.  And let's face it, whatever your reasons for buying a home, it's always an investment.    

What type of home do you want/need? Here are some options:

  • Urban living: condominiums in the heart of downtown, with shops, fine dining, marina and exhibits along the bay.  If you prefer a house, there are some upscale neighborhoods just outside the downtown area
  • Golf course communities
  • Bay and Gulf front homes and condominiums: located on the mainland and on Siesta, Longboat, and Casey Key.
  • Suburban living: if you want a house, a yard, with nearby school/shopping center/medical facilities
  • Sarasota features new homes, vintage homes,remodelled homes; high rise condo's, maintenance-free villas, over 55 communities . . . and more!

If you're planning to move to Sarasota,  you really can't do it alone. So take the first step - call me.  

 I'm ready to go to work for you! 

 

P.S. Whether you're coming to Sarasota to work or to play, or a little of both, our beaches are waiting for your footprints!








Today's Rates:

Mtg Loan    Rate  APR
30-yr Fixed4.97%5.13%
15-yr Fixed4.33%4.56%
1-yr Adj4.27%5.3%
* national averages



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Sarasota Herald Tribune:
 
Warmer weather means termite time
3/8/2010 9:47 PM
By KATE SPINNER.... Experts look for termite activity to pick up as temperatures climb. Dozens of swarms have already reported in Sarasota, Bradenton and Punta Gorda. ...Read More
 
Sarasota pursues a Google future
3/8/2010 9:22 PM
By MICHAEL POLLICK.... Communities across U.S. vie to be part of experimental network. ...Read More
 
School tax suit highlights political tension
3/8/2010 6:40 PM
By TIFFANY LANKES.... Buzz of a lawsuit aiming to stop the school property tax referendum started more than a month ago, when some of the staunchest critics started exchanging e-mails about potential electioneering violations. ...Read More
 
Rush hour on vehicle burglaries
3/9/2010 7:57 AM
STAFF REPORT.... Police are looking for the culprit or culprits behind rash of recent vehicle burglaries in Manatee County . ...Read More
 
Archaeology lab for New College
3/8/2010 10:09 PM
By CHRISTOPHER O'DONNELL.... The facility will allow anthropology students to do analysis in-house ...Read More
 
Two Sarasota-area banks among state's weakest
3/8/2010 7:20 PM
By JOHN HIELSCHER.... One's ranking goes up a notch; none made money ...Read More
 
Boaters criticize Venice docking plan
3/8/2010 10:02 PM
By TERRY O'CONNOR .... Cruisers say they will not stop in city if free mooring is banned ...Read More
 
Lyons: More to judge's plan than pay or jail
3/8/2010 6:02 PM
Tom Lyons.... I love the plan by the judge who wants to scare people with a court summons and threat of arrest for not paying traffic fines. But Judge Kimberly Bonner's plan isn't really all that "get tough." It's more like "get reasonable." ...Read More
 
Pressure on schools to enact merit pay
3/8/2010 10:09 PM
By BILL KACZOR The Associated Press.... Senate bill would penalize districts that don't adopt the plans ...Read More
 
Jim Brown: Not ignoring gorilla on Key
3/8/2010 6:20 PM
Jim Brown.... The letter carried a mixed message. "Your report on the upcoming races for commissioner was fair and informative as far as it went. Your obvious omission was the 800 pound gorilla issue." ...Read More




 

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