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Why Out-of-State Buyers Keep Getting Surprised by Sarasota’s Hidden Costs

Tuesday, June 23, 2026Alejandra RodriguezView original
Sarasota looks straightforward from a distance: warm weather, beaches, a real downtown, prices that still undercut Tampa and St. Pete. For buyers relocating from out of state, the value case seems obvious. What agents on the ground keep finding, though, is that the costs most likely to derail those purchases never appear in the listing […]