Neighborhood guides, market trends and local events for Sarasota, Lakewood Ranch and St. Pete.
Bayfront downtown, the Ringling and the opera, historic neighborhoods and the quartz-sand beaches of Siesta and Lido Key.
Source: RASM, Sarasota County single-family summary, September 2026
One of the country's best-selling master-planned communities, with gated golf villages, new construction, Main Street and Waterside Place.
A walkable downtown on Tampa Bay, brick-street historic districts, museums and the Pier, with Gulf beaches from Pass-a-Grille to Clearwater.
Source: Suncoast Tampa Association of REALTORS® (STAR), Pinellas County single-family, September 2026
Art shows, SAVOR St. Pete and the Tarpon Springs Seafood Festival fill the first weekend of November, and 12 more events, most of them for the holidays, joined the calendar. The 30-year mortgage rate fell to 7.24%, and Zillow puts the typical Lakewood Ranch home value at $589,452, down 2.6% from a year ago.
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