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You’ve got this mental picture of the Sarasota/Bradenton/mid-Gulf coast area of Florida. White haired retirees who couldn’t quite afford Naples but wanted to be close enough to the action of Tampa Bay for their grandkids to not feel exiled when they came to visit. In some ways, that picture’s pretty close. The pace is a little slower than Tampa/St. Pete, the prices a little lower than the private enclaves further south in Naples. Yet as a home of great golf communities, the Sarasota area’s not only cooler than the bustling cities to the north, its hotter as a housing market than any other area, anywhere.
Information from the National Association of Realtors has Bradenton and
Sarasota ranked 1-2 in home price appreciation in the first quarter of
2005 over the first quarter of ’04, Bradenton up over 45%, Sarasota up
over 36%. Even with those soaring home values, the cost of living is
still lower than many northern markets. In recent research from the
National Golf Foundation, the area is among the Top-25 in the country
in all 3 of its listings of golf accessibility, the most number of
public golf holes per resident, the number of private holes per
resident and the total number of holes per resident with a Top-10
ranking in the private holes list. Nearby Punta Gorda, which qualified
as its own area in the NGF study, ranked 6th in the number of public
golf holes per resident, and Golf Digest recently named Punta Gorda the
3rd best place to play in the country- using accessibility, weather,
value and quality of the golf as criteria. |
University Park Country Club has consistently earned awards from independent readers’ surveys, professional golf writers, planning and homebuilders’ associations.
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