SARASOTA FL COMMUNITIES
Mid town Sarasota is the bustling, exciting heart of the Sarasota Bay Region. Located here are most of the performance venues, great restaurants, galleries, world class museums, downtown shopping and clubs. Here you will also find many new features of Sarasota FL real estate. A wide variety of villas, town homes, and low-rise, mid-rise and hi-rise condos in all price ranges are available. New pricing on many of the projects allow us to bring our customers truly unusual values. An elegant new addition to mid-town Sarasota FL is The Ritz Carlton, the crème de la crème of hotels offering five star dining and luxury resort lodging, sumptuous spa and harbor side relaxation. Guests and residents are also invited to indulge themselves at the fabulous Ritz Carlton Beach Club located on Lido Key and the sandy beaches facing the Gulf of Mexico and the Ritz Carlton Golf Club a short distance away. The Ritz Carlton also presents Sarasota FL real estate buyers with the opportunity to own their own luxury condominium in the new Ritz Carlton Towers. You may contact us for information about this opportunity.
St. Armands Circle and Bird Key are just across the splendid new $80,000,000 Ringling bridge from mid-town Sarasota. Bird Key is a "water world" of extraordinary homes and estates, most on deep water canals with boat moorings. St. Armands Circle is world renowned as a shopping and dining mecca with over 100 shops, restaurants, services and boutiques all within walking distance and only a short stroll to Lido Beach. Here you will also find some of the finest Sarasota FL real estate on secluded streets and protected canals. We have a number of excellent values available in both of these neighborhoods.
The Museum District - In 1926 Mabel and John Ringling built their phenomenal estate Ca´da zon (house of John) along the crystal shores of Sarasota Bay and several hundred adjoining acres. Through a generous gift to the people of Florida and future generations, the Ringlings left not only the estate but a magnificent museum complex, parts of which have now become the official Art Museum of the State of Florida. In addition, the Ringling inheritance provides acreage used by the Museum of the Circus, the Asolo Theatre Company, the University of South Florida at Sarasota/Bradenton, the State´s Honors College, New College, and the Ringling School of Art and Design among other extraordinary cultural opportunities. All of this has become known as the Museum District. Here you will find some of Sarasota FL´s most engaging and architecturally interesting waterfront and waterside estates. Many of which represent the internationally acknowledged "Sarasota School of Architecture" as well as modern and traditional designs. We have a number of extraordinary purchase opportunities available in the Museum District.
Longboat Key Many critical observers have commented that Longboat Key is the "crown jewel" of Sarasota FL real estate. The southern half of this eleven mile barrier island is connected to the mainland by way of St. Armands Circle and the great Ringling Bridge. Originally slated by Ringling to be the site of the Ritz Carlton in the late 1920´s, its birth and development was interrupted by the Great Depression. By the 1950´s a few quaint cottage estates arose here but not much else. By the mid-1950´s Ringling´s dream was rediscovered and carried forth in grand scale by the entrepreneur Arthur Vining Davis whose company subsequently became known as Arvida. Today Longboat Key is a truly spectacular array of elegant condominiums, luxury homes, canal front properties, a world class tennis club and the five star resort known as The Longboat Key Club with its beachside hotel, The Inn on the Beach. It offers the quintessential island paradise lifestyle desired by so many. It has not been more affordable to own your own piece of paradise on Longboat Key in many years. We can assist you with every style and type of property from under $350,000 to over $11,000,000 on this spectacular island.
Siesta Key - "The whitest finest baby powder sand beaches in the world". Made from 99% pure quartz, Siesta´s beach sand is soft, floury, and cool to the touch. It´s a favorite among people from all over the world. Siesta´s incredibly wide variety of Sarasota FL real estate includes exclusive private gated enclaves, elegant condominiums, beach cottages and single family homes as well as popularly priced condominiums and rental properties ? all or near the beach, bay, or "the Village". We have available all of these types of properties in every imaginable price range from under $275,000 to over $7,000,000.
Great Golf Communities According to Sarasota Golf Net, there are over 40 public and private courses in Bradenton FL and Sarasota FL, the home of "golf play" in Florida. Many of the private and a few of the public courses have outstanding residential communities associated with them. Too numerous to mention, many of these communities offer a variety of housing options including independent family homes and estates in gated and protected communities, free standing single family homes, paired villas, townhomes, condominiums and upcoming fractional ownership. Play can be as low as $55 in Season, of course with the addition of cart fees or caddies. The private course memberships may be from a low under $10,000 to a high of over $125,000 at the Ritz Carlton Members Club. We have numerous categories of properties at all price ranges available throughout the Manatee and Sarasota FL areas. Call us with your specific questions.
Extraordinary Planned Communities
University Park, Lakewood Ranch, Heritage Harbour and Waterlefe
University Park and its top rated golf course has a number of extraordinary distinctions including the Best Community Design in America by the National Association of Home Builders, Best Community in the Region by Reader´s Choice Award, Best Country Club Community by the National Association of Home Builder´s Magazine, Best Place to Play Tennis by Sarasota Magazine, and #1 Golf Course in Southwest Florida by Florida Golf News. The unique neighborhoods and superb homes distinguish University Park and its Sarasota FL real estate. Here your insistence on excellence is rewarded at every turn. The natural beauty of the land takes precedence and the homes are carefully placed in the natural environment with many overlooking lakes, golf course, or preserve areas. Because the developer´s attention to detail and commitment to preserving the environment is as uncompromising as your own, you will enjoy nature´s beauty for a lifetime at University Park.
Lakewood Ranch where all the components of fine living are found. This Master Planned Community is one of the highest ranked and most award winning of its type in the nation with its combination of great schools, medical facilities, residential villages and enclaves, recreational amenities, ever increasing and more convenient shopping, as well as office and commercial opportunities. The 28,000 acre Schroeder-Manatee Ranch is the setting for this almost 6,000 acre Master Planned Community. It includes seven residential village-like communities offering a variety of lifestyles, price ranges and settings. A Town Centre and Main Street with entertainment and medical facilities, shopping, dining and schools, as well as upcoming hotels are set in a corporate park. A true Master Planned Hometown with opportunities for its patrons to recreate, learn, work and live within the new town of Lakewood Ranch.
Heritage Harbour offers many planned communities for all lifestyles with a hometown feeling and shopping and recreational conveniences. Once in this attractively manicured community with natural preserves and lush landscaping along boulevards, Heritage Harbour´s grand signature Lighthouse welcomes all visitors to the Gateway Bridge along the sparkling 70 acre lake. Residents in any of the ever growing neighborhoods may take full advantage of the Arthur Hills designed Stoney Brook Golf Course and Club, the Recreation Center, Central Park, fishing and boating on the nearby Manatee River, and children´s activities on the numerous playgrounds and parks. Its prime location encompassing more than 2500 acres at the northeast corner of I75 and SR64 allows easy access to Sarasota, Naples, Tampa, St. Pete and Orlando as well as three international airports.
Waterlefe WCI communities are known for being some of the most innovative and lifestyle abundant of any in the country. Waterlefe Golf and River Club is a superior example of these qualities featuring championship golf, as well as a marina on 622 acres of pristine beauty, melding perfectly with natural conservation areas and riverfront.
Waterlefe neighborhoods including the Arbors, the Cape, the Cascades, the Estuary, the Glades, the Marsh, the Meadows, the Oaks, the Palms, the Reserve, the Retreat, the Sanctuary, the Shore, and the Strand, as well as two condominium communities, the Watch and the Landings, make up the extraordinary residential variety at Waterlefe. Recreational and fitness center facilities include the Country Club, the Athletic Center, the fine dining River Club, the 59 dock marina, the nature trails and boardwalks, and The Pointe family gathering area are a few of the almost endless varieties available at Waterlefe.
For the sports enthusiasts, you are just minutes away from Raymond James Stadium, home of the World Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers, or catch hockey fever with the Tampa Bay Lightning at the Forum. If baseball is your past time, there are several MLB teams that spring train nearby and St. Pete is the home of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
We have extraordinary opportunities and special "buys" available in each of these four communities. Tell us where you would like to begin your search for your dream home.
We have detailed here just a few of the neighborhoods and communities which make up Sarasota FL real estate. Your Florida Realtors, Team Vitale, are knowledgeable about most all of the communities between the southside of Tampa Bay and Casey Key and southern Sarasota County. You need only ask and we will find the type, price range and location of the property which you would like to consider. You need only ask ? we will deliver.
