{"id":17578,"date":"2026-05-25T09:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/?p=17578"},"modified":"2026-05-24T07:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:17:27","slug":"sarasota-county-single-family-home-market-update-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/2026\/05\/25\/sarasota-county-single-family-home-market-update-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarasota County Single-Family Home Market Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sarasota County\u2019s single\u2011family home market in April 2026 showed modest growth in sales and prices. Closed sales reached 824, up 0.9% year\u2011over\u2011year, while the median sale price rose to $490,000, an increase of 4.3% from a year earlier. New pending sales were strong at 874, up 17%, indicating continued buyer activity despite mixed listing trends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supply tightened significantly compared with last year: active inventory fell to 3,258, down 27%, and new listings dropped to 989, down 12%. Cash purchases accounted for 43.9% of closed sales, a slight decline from 46.1%. See the infographic below, from Florida Realtors, for more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/srq2604-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/srq2604-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/srq2604-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/srq2604-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/srq2604.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarasota County\u2019s single\u2011family home market in April 2026 showed modest growth in sales and prices. Closed sales reached 824, up 0.9% year\u2011over\u2011year, while the median sale price rose to $490,000, an increase of 4.3% from a year earlier. New pending sales were strong at 874, up 17%, indicating continued buyer activity despite mixed listing trends. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,26,1],"tags":[12,13,15,20,19,6,17],"class_list":["post-17578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-buying","category-home-selling","category-real-estate","tag-home-buying","tag-home-selling","tag-real-estate","tag-real-estate-agent","tag-realtor","tag-sarasota","tag-sarasota-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17580,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17578\/revisions\/17580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}