MANATEE - The bad news: the number of existing-home sales fell 8 percent in Bradenton-Sarasota in January, compared to a year earlier. The good news: Bradenton-Sarasota was the second strongest performing market in the state, which saw the number of sales fall 27 percent.
Helping more homes change hands was a 20 percent fall in the [...]

A year after the first visible slowdown in the local real estate market, real estate agents are still feeling the effects.
The third quarter of 2006 saw single-family existing home sales plummet 34 percent from the year before while condo sales tumbled 55 percent in Bradenton-Sarasota. It was the third quarter of 2005 that first showed [...]