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Longboat Key | Real Estate

    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • October 20, 2009
Sabal Cove home sells for $2 million

In March 2005, as the recent real-estate bubble was about to burst, a Bloomington, Ill., real-estate firm known as DKS Properties Inc., led by its president, David Stark, purchased a 5,238-square-foot residence in the exclusive Sabal Cove subdivision, within the heart of the Bay Isles peninsula, for $2,125,000.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • October 15, 2009
Horns join Michael Saunders & Co. Longboat Key South office

Realtors Maureen and Steve Horn previously worked for Prudential Palms Realty.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Kent Chetlain
  • October 14, 2009
Lido Shores home sells for $3.25 million

On July 25, 2003, Robert Trosten, the 33-year-old chief financial officer of Refco, an active commodities brokerage firm, paid $650,000 to buy Unit 15-D at the 15-story Sea Gate Club, 2425 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • October 14, 2009
Real Estate Reports

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  • By Kent Chetlain
  • October 7, 2009
Beach Residences unit sells for $2,731,800

Despite a slight sales lull during the recording week of Sept. 21 through Sept. 25, two of six keys transactions surpassed $1 million. Both were consummated on Lido Beach.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Kent Chetlain
  • September 30, 2009
Water Club condo sells for $2.2 million

The leading real-estate transaction for the recording week of Sept. 14 through Sept. 18 was the $2.2 million that Karen and Steven Shapiro, from Chappaqua, N.Y., paid for Unit 808 at the 11-story, 86-unit Water Club Tower II.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 23, 2009
Smart shopping

Real-estate bargains are available even on Longboat Key. And real-estate officials say that buyers are getting smart, asking about more than price and location.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Kent Chetlain
  • September 23, 2009
Emerald Harbor home sells for $1,375,000

Vicki and Paul White, from York, Pa., purchased the canal-front home at 771 Old Compass Road in the 81-lot Emerald Harbor subdivision from Lloyd Turman and his wife, Susan Atherton, for $1,375,000.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Kent Chetlain
  • September 16, 2009
St. Armands home sells for $3.25 million

A seven-year-old St. Armands mansion on Sarasota Bay at 236 N. Washington Drive was sold Sept. 1 by Jacqueline and Edward Bongart to Jacqueline Sullivan for $3.25 million.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 16, 2009
Real Estate Reports

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  • By Kent Chetlain
  • September 9, 2009
Key Real Estate

Orchid Beach unit sells for $2.35 million

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  • Real Estate
  • By Kent Chetlain
  • September 2, 2009
$1.25 million sale at Water Club II

The sale of Unit 4 in the 11-story, 86-unit Water Club II tower for $1.25 million was one of three more than $1 million sales that highlighted the 10 realty transactions recorded on the keys during the third week of August.

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  • By Kent Chetlain
  • August 26, 2009
Weston Pointe home sells for $910,000

Elena Benedict-Smith, of Sarasota, sold her home at Weston Pointe on the Bay Isles peninsula for $910,000 to Katherine and Warren Coopersmith.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Kent Chetlain
  • August 19, 2009
Sleepy Lagoon home sells for $2.4 million

The largest transaction on the Key the first week of August was the $2.4 million sale of the Gulf-front home on the north-end beach at 6429 Gulfside Road by Settlers Hill Limited Partnership, of North Chatham, Mass., and 444 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Kent Chetlain
  • August 12, 2009
Two-week sale surge ends in last week of July

After the real-estate-sales surge of 15 transactions for two consecutive weeks in mid-July, realty activity on the keys slipped back to seven for the final week of the month.

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