Kelley Luxury Homes | Sarasota Real Estate

A REMODELED SIESTA STEAL!!…Enjoy this Completely Remodeled Two Bedroom, Two Bath Villa in Horizons West, the largest floor plan of its kind in the community (more…)

We all new it was a matter of time, does this proclamation mark the bottom for Sarasota’s Home values??? (more…)

I was out showing property late yesterday afternoon for one of my listings in The Lido Ambassador, Unit 410 on Lido Key.  It’s a nice end unit with lots of daylight, (more…)

I have been waiting for the bottom of the Sarasota Real Estate Market forever it seems, well at least since July 17th, 2005 (more…)

Say what you want about Florida and these turbulent economic times, it hasnt changed how beautiful the beaches are, especially Siesta Key’s Crescent Beach. (more…)

According to Florida Association of Realtors the Sarasota Bradenton Market has pushed up 9.5% from the previous months sales in March and the median price is up $20,000. Does logic indicate that we have missed the bottom or has some form of a housing real estate bear market rise given way for another tumble this summer when the balance of those exotic ARM loans adjust this year for more mortgages to default? (more…)

In case you forgot why moved here, there are plenty of others looking to experience the beauty of Sarasota and her Islands as reported pending sales soar to 981 in April 2009; sales top 500 mark for first time in 11 months

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It’s Not always easy selling property in this market, but when it comes to Siesta key Gulf Front Condos, it’s more like a dream.  Coming from the Northeast, Boston more specifically, I had never seen sand like this before (99% quartz), I was hooked right away.  So when I picked up the Sarasota Herald Tribune this morning and had also hopped on www.msn.com to see the Dr. Beach a.k.a. Dr. Leatherman had released his newest list of the top ten beaches in the Nation I was happily surprised that Siesta Key’s Crescent Beach had jumped from Number #3 to #2 in the Nation.

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Finally, the Sales activity is picking up in Sarasota!!!  it’s like someone turned on the faucet again and something tells me that this is going to be one busy summer, so let me tell you now what the media will tell you in three to four weeks from now…..Pending Sales are through the roof, communities that  didnt have any activity inside of 9 months have been getting 3 to 6 pending sales in a weekend.  For example, look at Laurel Oak Estates, one of, if not, the Country Club in Sarasota had’nt had a decent sale inside 9 months and what I mean by that anything over 500k, now we have 5 pending sales in just the last 2 weeks, one of which is my pending deal at 7590 Albert Tillinghast Drive.  Take another commnity that will make my pal Marc Rasmussen at www.realestaterag.com laugh.  Deer Creek is the community in question where the sales were at an all time low, but now, in the same time frame as the aforementioned country club, has had 5 pending sales just this past week.  I am not sure exactly what the reason is for these brisk sales but I suspect it is the renewed confidence in the past month in the stock market. A quick stat is that the world wide economy has jumped 12% since the markets low of 6500.

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When it comes to working in Southwest Florida’s Real Estate marketplace.

I used to work with Marc Rasmussen at Sky Sotheby’s up until eight months and we would have many conversations about how horrible this market had become for a slew of different reasons.  One of many conversations would end with or begin with a house I had listed in a community in Palmer Ranch called Deer Creek at 8377 Shadow Pine Way in Sarasota, which happened to be my personal home.

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