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Oct 7, 2024 – Louise Bolger
September 10, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Condominium deconversion

Remember The Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida? Probably haven’t heard that name in a while, but it was the very shocking collapse of the tower with loss of the building and los…
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September 9, 2024
By Leslie Lake
County to purchase Seafood Shack for $13 million

County to purchase Seafood Shack for $13 million

CORTEZ – Ending speculation about the identity of the new owner of the Seafood Shack Restaurant and Marina, the Manatee Board of County Commissioners unanimously approved its $13 million purchase at…
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September 3, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Will declining mortgage rates fix the market?

It may take more than the Federal Reserve throwing us a lower interest rate bone this month to make everyone happy. Nevertheless, when it comes to lower rates, we’ll take what we can get, but will it…
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September 3, 2024
By Leslie Lake
Homeowners’ property erroneously named in Kaleta lawsuit

Homeowners’ property erroneously named in Kaleta lawsuit

BRADENTON BEACH – Two city homeowners were surprised to see their property erroneously identified in a July lawsuit filed by Easy Parking Group (EPG) against developer Shawn Kaleta. “I’ve never had…
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August 27, 2024
By Louise Bolger

The day has arrived

Starting this month, the rules have changed for governing real estate commissions. We’ve been talking about this since the National Association of Realtors (NAR) voted on this change to the commissio…
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August 26, 2024
By Leslie Lake

Tourism visitation flat, room rates up

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – Visitor numbers are down slightly in the Bradenton area from last year, but higher room rates are pointing to confidence in the market, Bradenton Area Convention and Visitors Bure…
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August 26, 2024
By Leslie Lake
TDC members explain benefits of tourist tax increase

TDC members explain benefits of tourist tax increase

ANNA MARIA – A referendum to raise the Manatee County tourist tax from 5% to 6% will be on the November ballot, and the county’s chief tourism official spoke about the benefits and misperceptions of…
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August 26, 2024
By SUN contributor
Lighting strikes two Holmes Beach businesses

Lighting strikes two Holmes Beach businesses

HOLMES BEACH – A lightning strike started a fire on Aug. 22 that damaged two local businesses – West Coast Air Conditioning and Heating and Fun and More Rentals. A press release from West Manatee Fi…
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August 20, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Mortgage rate relief?

Aug. 9 was an interesting day. Manatee County was still cleaning up from the flooding and record-breaking rain from Debby and the mortgage rates hit the lowest level in over a year. What’s the connec…
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August 12, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Real estate brats

One of the things I love about writing this column is that while I’m doing my research, I frequently stumble on things I never heard of and likely never would in my day-to-day life. This month I lear…
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