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SW Florida Fine Homes Ed Grabowski, Broker Assoc. Preferred Shore Real Estate
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09/09/2026

Palmer Ranch looks like one market from the outside. It is not.

Some pockets are moving fast right now. Others are sitting for months, even at similar price points. I get into why in this month's Palmer Ranch Market Watch, including a look inside Turtle Rock, Silver Oak, and Prestancia.

If you own here, this is the kind of read that changes how you think about timing a sale.

Watch above. Which of these three communities do you think is moving fastest right now?

Have you ever wondered why two homes in the same community can produce very different outcomes?Two Turtle Rock homes sol...
09/08/2026

Have you ever wondered why two homes in the same community can produce very different outcomes?

Two Turtle Rock homes sold for nearly the same price in August: $650,000 vs $640,000.

One secured a contract in 19 days. The other took 158 days.

The smaller home also sold for approximately $311/ft, compared with $254/ft.

That does not mean square footage did not matter. It means buyers considered the complete property: condition, presentation, improvements, competition and how each home was positioned.

A desirable community can bring buyers into the neighborhood. It does not guarantee they will choose your home.

Build Interest. Create Leverage. Net More.

Most home sales follow the same script. List it. Wait. React to whatever offer shows up.I do it differently. Build inter...
09/05/2026

Most home sales follow the same script. List it. Wait. React to whatever offer shows up.

I do it differently. Build interest before the sign goes in the yard. Create leverage before you need it. That is the difference between netting more and netting whatever showed up.

Follow along, more soon.

When you last sold or bought, did you have leverage, or were you reacting to their terms?

Is Palmer Ranch a seller's market? I'd say it depends on the price. Overall supply sits at 2.6 months. In the $700K to $...
09/04/2026

Is Palmer Ranch a seller's market? I'd say it depends on the price. Overall supply sits at 2.6 months. In the $700K to $1M range, that jumps to 4.1, as financing pressure narrows the buyer pool right where the market used to feel strongest. Follow for monthly Palmer Ranch insights.

Have you noticed homes in your neighborhood moving quickly, or sitting longer?

09/02/2026

324 homes sold in the City of Sarasota last month. In that same 31 days, 192 sellers pulled their home off the market without selling. Same city, same buyers, same 31 days.

The market actually improved year over year: more sales, higher prices, faster contracts. So why did 192 sellers walk away with nothing.

Full breakdown is in the video.

If you had to guess what separates the 324 that sold from the 192 that did not, would you put your money on price, condition, or timing?

09/02/2026

The first 21 days a home is on the market do more work than most sellers expect. Not because of one factor. Price plays a part, but so does presentation, timing, and how quickly buyer attention forms and fades. I have been looking at why some Sarasota listings hold that attention and others lose it fast.

What do you think matters most in those first three weeks: the price, the presentation, or something else entirely?

08/28/2026

Three weeks in with no offers usually comes down to one of three things: price, condition, or comparison to what else is on the market. Wednesday's video walked through how to diagnose which one you're actually facing before making a change.

Here's the quick decision tree. If showings are strong but offers aren't coming, the issue is usually price. If showings themselves are thin, the issue is usually exposure or condition. If you're being shown alongside two or three similar homes and losing every time, the issue is comparison, not your home in isolation.

Most sellers jump straight to a price cut because it's the easiest lever to pull. It isn't always the right one.

If you had to guess right now, which of those three would you bet is most often the real problem: price, condition, or comparison?

08/21/2026

This month's Gulf Coast Homeowner Brief is out. It connects Sarasota County's improving but divided market, builder competition, and the latest Palmer Ranch activity, through the lens of an owner who doesn't live here full time and can't watch the market day to day.

Subscribe to read this month's issue.

If you only had time to track one thing about this market from a distance, would it be pricing, inventory, or how fast homes are moving?

08/19/2026

The July numbers are in for Palmer Ranch, and here's the sharpest signal: what's asking, what's being selected, and what's actually closing are three different prices, 23% apart at the widest point. Active listings carry a median of $759,000. Pending sales sit at $631,500. Closed sales land at $581,050. Homes here are also closing about nine days faster than the Sarasota County median, and more than half of July's closings were cash.

The community-level story varies too. Sandhill Preserve and VillageWalk were the busiest corners of Palmer Ranch these last two months. Meanwhile a home in Esplanade at Legacy Estates just closed $395,000 below its original list price after three reductions, a reminder that pricing accuracy still decides the outcome even in a market moving this fast.

Full breakdown and the video are linked below.

If you're weighing a Palmer Ranch listing right now, which changes your thinking more: the size of the asking-to-closing gap, how fast some communities are moving, or how much a slow start can cost you?

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