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        <description>Sarasota Real Estate and Community News Blog by Bryan Guentner of REMAX Platinum Realty in Sarasota and Venice Florida</description>
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            <title>Good Numbers for Sarasota-Manatee Economy</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ A range of statistics on unemployment and business sales all point in the same good direction for the Sarasota-Manatee economy, but differ on how fast the economy is recovering. 
Most notably, the local unemployment rate has fallen much more quickly than the national average.&nbsp; Unemployment in the two counties stood at 12.7% in September 2010, but had fallen to 10.3% by last month. The national rate fell much more slowly over that same period, from 9.6% to 9%.

Meanwhile, a look at the sales... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:54:24 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>bryanguentner@gmail.com (Bryan Guentner)</author>
            <title>Florida Leads Top 10 Cities for Home List Price Increases</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
Florida communities, including the Sarasota real estate market and Charlotte County-North Port, dominated a list of the 10 cities that have seen the largest percentage increase in median list prices when comparing September with a year earlier.

The list from the National Association of Realtors speaks to the lack of available properties on the low end of the market; to the growing number of high-end owners getting off the fence and trying to sell; and perhaps to seller's confidence about what ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:17:20 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>bryanguentner@gmail.com (Bryan Guentner)</author>
            <title>Venice Real Estate Market Gaining Stability.</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
The Venice, Fl. area's housing market seems to be reaching a level of stability in supplies and pricing, according to a recent analysis.&nbsp; 

The number of homes for sale continues to drop and the number of new listings also is decreasing.&nbsp; As of the end of September, 966 homes were for sale, compared with 1,215 a year ago, a decline of 20.5%.&nbsp; There were 162 new listings last month, compared with 176 in August.

The supply of homes, based on the current pace of sales, represented ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:52:33 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>bryanguentner@gmail.com (Bryan Guentner)</author>
            <title>Supply of homes for sale decreasing in Southwest Florida</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
Housing inventories across Southwest Florida continued at levels that are considered a market in equilibrium.&nbsp; 

The largest decline on a percentage basis was in Lakewood Ranch, which is proving to be one of the epicenters of the housing recovery in Southwest Florida. There were 321 homes for sale in the master-planned community last month, down 8 percent from August and nearly 34 percent from a year ago.

That inventory is a six-month supply at the current sales pace, a level that is cons... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:55:50 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>bryanguentner@gmail.com (Bryan Guentner)</author>
            <title>Sales snapshot shows improvement in the Sarasota-Manatee Economy.</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
The Sarasota-Manatee economy has shrunk by $4 billion since its peak in 2006, but that is actually an improvement.&nbsp;&nbsp; While 50 industries -- from manufacturing to gas stations -- are still performing well below boomtime levels, a growing number in the two counties have recovered to 2006 sales levels.

For example, in the 12 months ending in June -- the latest data available -- apparel stores in the two counties sold $446 million in merchandise, 7% more than they did in 2006.&nbsp; In a... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:57:58 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>bryanguentner@gmail.com (Bryan Guentner)</author>
            <title>Siesta Key in Sarasota reaps benefits of No. 1 beach ranking</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ In the weeks since Siesta Beach was ranked as America's top sand for 2011, visitor interest in Sarasota and area lodging bookings at many properties have skyrocketed, hoteliers and tourism officials say.&nbsp; Traffic was so high in late May on the Sarasota Convention &amp; Visitors Bureau's website that it almost crashed and the organization had to get more digital capacity. 
Although exact visitors' figures are not known, Stephen &quot;Dr. Beach&quot; Leatherman's May 27 ranking of Siesta as t... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:49:49 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>bryanguentner@gmail.com (Bryan Guentner)</author>
            <title>Sales in Sarasota Real Estate Market Reach the Highest Level in Six Years!</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
Total property sales in the Sarasota real estate market hit 800 for the month of March 2011, the highest level since September 2005 when sales started to decline.&nbsp; The other great news in March - prices rose in double digits for both single family homes and condos from the previous month, pending sales were the highest since the real estate boom ended in 2005, and the inventory dropped to 5,501 - less than a third of the available properties on the market during the boom.

What makes the s... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:33:23 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>bryanguentner@gmail.com (Bryan Guentner)</author>
            <title>Makeover Planned for Siesta Key Beach!</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
Sarasota County has proposed to make improvements to Siesta Public Beach including replacing the public safety building.&nbsp; The plan also calls for expanding the Siesta Public Beach parking lot.

Some of the new amenities will be a pedestrian esplanade, expanded and upgraded restrooms and multi-use shelters.&nbsp; Recent estimates for the makeover have been around $12,000,000.

There will be 2 new concession areas, a lawn for concerts and other activities, restoration of a historic pavilion,... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:43:53 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>bryanguentner@gmail.com (Bryan Guentner)</author>
            <title>Florida is Helping with Late Mortgages!</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ Florida will finally launch a $1 billion effort to help homeowners struggling to pay the mortgage, more than a year after the federal government first announced the program. 
The program's fate had been in doubt amid worries that Gov. Rick Scott's harsh criticism of federal spending could lead Florida to reject the money. Scott recently turned down $2.4 billion in money from the federal economic stimulus package that would have been used for high-speed rail. And on the campaign trail, he repeate... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:42:51 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>bryanguentner@gmail.com (Bryan Guentner)</author>
            <title>Jackson Lab picks Sarasota County</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
Genetics researcher Jackson Laboratory formally committed to building its new personalized medicine institute in Sarasota County, ending an intense contest with Hillsborough County and beginning a collaboration with Sarasota Memorial Hospital, the Gulfcoast Community Foundation of Venice and the University of South Florida that many describe as a game-changer for the local economy.

&quot;Together we're going to create a biomedical village,&quot; said Chuck Hewett, Jackson Laboratory's chief op... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:05:02 -0500</pubDate>
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