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Real estate | Development

April 1, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Buyers, sellers, hurricanes – and remorse

Remorse is the feeling of regret, second thoughts or disappointment in a decision recently made. When it comes to buying and selling real estate, it’s difficult not to have some level of remorse abou…
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March 25, 2025
By Louise Bolger

It’s the buyers turn

Balance of power is something we usually talk about as it relates to international positioning between powerful nations. Now the phrase is lending itself to the real estate market and the buyers are…
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March 25, 2025
By Louise Bolger

It’s the buyers turn

Balance of power is something we usually talk about as it relates to international positioning between powerful nations. Now the phrase is lending itself to the real estate market and the buyers are…
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March 19, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Tax relief on the beach

It’s tax time again and tax time is never fun, but this year could be particularly not fun. In view of the 2024 storms, this tax filing season could be quite a bit different in addition to the normal…
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March 11, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Time for a kitchen redo

I don’t know about you, but I’m just now getting my condo back in pre-Milton shape. It took five months and there are still a few jobs to finish up, not to mention the dust that has settled in the cr…
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March 3, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Life-changing events can reset priorities

To say that a combination of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton less than two weeks apart changed the lives of everyone on Anna Maria Island and most of the coastal areas of Manatee County would b…
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February 26, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Vacation rental registration fees increased

Vacation rental registration fees increased

ANNA MARIA – The City Com­mission unanimously established the occupancy-based annual vacation rental registration fees that take effect on April 1 and remain in place through March 31, 2026. Adopted…
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February 26, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Everything is negotiable

About a month ago, we talked about being in uncharted territory as it relates to the real estate market. Not much has changed for the better in the last month and the statistics for January will conf…
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February 18, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Expenses increasing for homeowners

The day you close on your home, whether it’s your first or fifth, is always a happy day – almost as happy as the day your mortgage commitment is approved – but that’s just the beginning of homeowners…
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January 27, 2025
By Leslie Lake
Pines owners offer to sell to homeowners for $75 million

Pines owners offer to sell to homeowners for $75 million

BRADENTON BEACH – In a Jan. 27 letter to the Pines Trailer Park Homeowners Association (HOA), Pines Park Investors LLC offered to sell the mobile home park to the residents for $75 million. At that…
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Upcoming Events

April 9, 2025
11:45 am

The Off-Stage Ladies of the Island Players, April luncheon meeting