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With great sadness, this last blog is to inform:On June 22, 2009, Patricia Taylor passed away at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. A memorial service will be held on July 19, 2009 at 1:00 p.m.Patricia was known for her strong work ethic and her love for family and animals. When she was not selling real estate, she travelled extensively to many countries. All together, she loved life and

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By Michael Saunders & Company On June 17, 2009The region’s beleaguered real estate market exhibits renewed strength with each passing month. Practically no one, not even the most skeptical observers, will dispute that the market has perked-up considerably. For most of this year, closed sales have steadily crept upwards, pending sales have taken a remarkable bounce; and the inventory of

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SUMMER'S HERE!As appearedMichaelSaunders & CompanyOur annual summer rainy season kicked in about six weeks earlier than usual this year; but thankfully not a moment too soon. Not the kind of soggy weather that tosses a wet blanket on anyone’s vacation plans, mind you, but the kind of daily rain event that comes and goes quickly leaving our drought-depleted rivers, lakes and reservoirs a little

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As appearedMichael Saunder@ HomeMay 28th, 2009 Category: The Real Estate MarketNothing pleases us more than to see two droughts ease up just as summer hits its stride.Until very recently, Southwest Florida was gasping for water; choked by a three-year dearth of rainfall, with no let-up in sight—especially as our scorched landscape limped into Spring. Local meteorologists shook their heads and

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May 12th, 2009 The Real Estate MarketHeadlines of an article posted online from the Sarasota Herald Tribune website…“Sarasota-Bradenton Posts Nation’s 7th Biggest Home Price Drop”…and what good news it could be for the homebuyer!Let’s take a closer look at some other “dropping” statistics, but positive ones. In April of 2008, Trendgraphix reported that Sarasota County had a 14.6 month supply of

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As appearedMichael Saunders@HomeMay, 2009The news out of our market has been more encouraging since the last issue of Saunders@Home. After months and months of stormy skies, we are noticing large patches of blue over Southwest Florida. Closed and pending sales have been steadily ticking upwards for months; and March was clearly no exception. Sales of single-family homes in Sarasota-Bradenton were

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INVENTORIES OF PROPERTIES IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA DROP TO LOWESTLEVELS IN 39 MONTHSExerptAs appearedApril 13th, 2009Michael Saunders & CompanyALL INDICATORS POINT TO A MARKET ON THE MEND“It’s an absolute perfect storm from a buyer’s point-of-view,” said Michael Saunders, founder and CEO of Michael Saunders & Company, in explaining the market dynamics behind the substantial uptick in sales and

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As appearedMichael Saunders & CompanyApril 17th, 2009 If you can’t quite put your finger on what gives Venice its innate sense of beauty, order, community and connectedness; you might be surprised to learn it was all planned that way from day one—back in the 1920’s. Even now the most forward-thinking urban planners—hoping to leave their mark on the field the way John Nolen did—visit Venice to

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Siesta Key: Where It's All About The BeachMichael Saunders & Company, Licensed Real Estate BrokerVisit New York and you’re likely to return home humming a Broadway tune. Visit Sarasota and you may depart singing the praises of Siesta Key, who’s renowned Crescent Beach is perennially ranked among America’s ten best by Dr. Stephen Leatherman—better known to coastline connoisseurs as “Dr. Beach.”

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Longboat Key: Off The Beaten TrackAs appeared: Michael Saunders @ HomeMichael Saunder & CompanyLicensed Real Estate BrokerIf you’ve only seen Longboat Key from Gulf of Mexico Drive, you’ve missed most of it. The true Longboat experience is found off the beaten track; along its canopied side streets, fishing its bays and bayous, and kayaking through the maze of mangrove tunnels that pass through

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Mortgage activity heats upHerald-TribuneThursday, March 26, 2009Mortgage applications soared last week by 32 percent after the Federal Reserve said it would buy billions of dollars in Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities, but Southwest Florida brokers and others said borrowers -- like home buyers -- continue to chase a bottom.Following the rates has become challenging in an environment

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As appeared March 11, 2009CNNMoney.comMortgage applications jump 11%Near record low interest rates spur demand for home loans.March 11, 2009: 7:06 AM ETNEW YORK (Reuters) -- U.S. mortgage applications rose for the first time in three weeks as near record-low interest rates spurred demand for home refinancing and purchase loans, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.The jump in demand

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As appeared Sunday, January 11.2009Michael Saunders & CompanyIf we start to sound like a broken record, it’s because one simple truism bears constant repetition in today’s real estate market “Price, price, price” is so fundamental to the success of every new property transaction that we can never say it too often or with too much conviction. If you’re troubled by the lack of potential buyers

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As appeared Sunday, August 24, 2008Michael Saunders & CompanyWhether they motor in from across the Canadian border or crisscross the entire globe to get here, Southwest Florida has a long history of luring international buyers drawn to our irresistible blend of sun, sea and cultural sophistication. Today, with prices right, selections great, and foreign currencies showing unprecedented strength

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As AppearedMichael Saunders & CompanyWith a vast majority of today’s homebuyers beginning their property search online, elevated Web visibility leads to more successful real estate results than ever.Worldwide interest in properties on Florida’s Gulf Coast continues to drive visitors to michaelsaunders.com every day.From July through September of 2008, michaelsaunders.com saw:^ Approximately

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As Appeared Sunday August 17, 2008Michael Saunders & CompanyThere’s an old sales and marketing adage that goes something like this: If you can demonstrate real value in a product or service, people will have no objections to its price.Old adage? Maybe. But it’s one that is certainly apropos of the times when referencing what properties are—and are not—selling in a real estate market that

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As appeared November 30, 2008Michael Saunders & CompanyYou can own the best boat, buy the best equipment and attach the best bait to your hook; but if you don’t fish where the fish are, it all adds up to a colossal waste of time and money. Your prospects of netting“the big one” are slim.The same logic applies to selling a luxury home in Southwest Florida. You can own the best home in the best

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as Appeared September 2008Michael Saunders & CompanyForeclosures. They’re a painful and sobering blot on the psyche of an already beleaguered real estate market. Unless we as a real estate community unite in dealing resolutely with this year’s unprecedented wave of new foreclosures—many of them tied in one way or another to investors who long ago fled their fiscal responsibilities—the phenomenon

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as Appeared November 9, 2008Michael Saunder & CompanyNot even the sharpest financial minds can predict with any sort of precision when the nation’s real estate markets will recapture the momentum needed to shore-up eroding home prices. One can, however, be reasonably certain that the housing market’s comeback will be a major priority, if not the top priority, of the next administration in

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As appeared in Sarasota Realtor MagazineNovember 2008Sarasota remains an amazing place to resideThe national (and now international) wave of economic angst and crisis may sometimes seem overwhelming, putting many people in a fearful mood. But through all the historic cycles in the real estate market, Sarasota has always emerged as a market leader during the recovery phase.Why? It only requires a

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As appeared Sunday, September 28, 2008Michael Saunders & CompanyAmid all the hugely unsettling news that continues to explode daily from the canyons of Wall Street, several highly-regarded economists are still able to detect signs that our wounded real estate market is slowly beginning to heal.According to financial analyst Eric Landry—writing for Morningstar, Inc., a leading provider of

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Michael Saunders & CompanyAs appeared October 19, 2008Much has been written, broadcast and otherwise communicated about the crisis infecting the world’s credit and financial markets. Far from being a uniquely American predicament, the fiscal emergency has now stretched its tentacles to include most of the world’s industrializednations.The clue that the crisis would spread well beyond our borders

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As appeared Sunday October 12, 2008Michael Saunders & CompanyThe word “confidence,” as in “lack of,” has been the watchword most commonly attributed to the increasingly turbulent housing, credit and financial crisis now infecting markets throughout the world. Confidence in our housing market, in our banking institutions, in our government and its ability to protect us from corporate greed and

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as appeared on CNN.comOctober 12, 2008Longboat Key offers serenity nowThousands of visitors from colder climates flock to Longboat Key in winterOff season, the island feels like the closest thing to having a private beachLongboat Key is less than 11 miles in length and no more than a mile wideNeighboring St. Armands Key offers a shopping circle of boutiques and restaurantsLONGBOAT KEY, Florida (

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