Sarasota Herald-Tribune New auction house goes high tech A Sarasota business is taking auctions to the big screen. The first sale will be Saturday at Sarasota Estate Auction, which the company describes as a “high-end, online, live auction house.” The 7,000-square-foot space in a...

By John Hielscher, Sarasota Herald-Tribune SARASOTA – A bayfront mansion formerly owned by Sarasota Ponzi schemers John and Marian Morgan has sold for $3.2 million. The Morgans paid $5.2 million in 2006 for the then-new, 7,500-square-foot home with money from Morgan European...

By Ashley Gurbal Kritzer, Tampa Bay Business Journal Fifth Third Bank has sold a waterfront mansion in Sarasota that it foreclosed on earlier this year. Brent and Megan Bogart paid $3.2 million for the 6,500-square-foot home in the Coral Cove community on Sarasota Bay. The sale, which closed...

By Chris Angermann, Sarasota Herald-Tribune Not only is Summer Cove one of the most attractive luxury condo complexes on Siesta Key, but also it has one of the most beautiful clubhouses in the region. Nestled in a pocket of pristine Florida jungle, the building was built as a restaurant that...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune Title company joins law firm Island House Title, of Vero Beach, has merged with the law firm of Boss, Arrighi & Hoag PL and its title affiliate, Protected Title Services LLC, which have offices in Sarasota, Vero Beach, St. Petersburg and Tampa. The merger creates a...

Florida’s Treasure Coast and Palm Beaches VERO BEACH — Island House Title of Vero Beach Merges with Boss, Arrighi & Hoag Law Firm Island House Title of Vero Beach has merged with the law firm of Boss, Arrighi & Hoag, P.L. and its title affiliate, Protected Title Services, LLC....

By Harold Bubil, Sarasota Herald-Tribune An unlikely combination of historical footnotes makes a Casey Key property one of the most interesting listings on the market. No lesser names than U.S. Steel, Teddy Roosevelt, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Cassius Clay are indirectly connected to the...

Iverson’s unveils refurbished stores Iverson’s Furniture, which has been at 2223 Bee Ridge Road in Sarasota since 1957, has traded its terracotta color for a silver paint job. The company also has redone the interiors of the Bee Ridge store and its Clark Road store, which has been...

By Josh Salman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune; Staff Photo: Rachel S. O’Hara BRYAN AND CHERI GUENTNER opened their real estate brokerage at the onset of the region’s worst housing market in decades. But rather than grow anxious and become defeated by the inauspicious timing, the couple...

By John Hielscher, Sarasota Herald-Tribune Hillsborough Title has acquired CornerStone Title in Lakewood Ranch. Founder Mary Howard will continue to serve as relationship manager for Cornerstone Title, which still operate under that name and remain at its Lakewood Ranch location. “We are...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune Rick Helbing, of Suncoast Advisory Group in Sarasota, has been named among the 150 Best Financial Advisers for Doctors by Medical Economics magazine. He has made the list every year since 2009. Helbing is a Certified Financial Planner and Chartered Financial Consultant...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune Amy Robinson, a broker-associate with RE/MAX Alliance Group, will appear in a 10-minute segment on the British real estate show “A Place in the Sun.” Like the American show “House Hunters,” “A Place in the Sun” shows British house...