Bradenton Herald MANATEE – ReMax Alliance Group, a real estate company with locations throughout Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties, has climbed the ranks of ReMax offices. The franchise leads Florida as the top office in the state for both transactions and sales volume, and climbed...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune Duane and Rhonda Finney, of Re/Max Alliance Group, have won the Re/Max Chairman’s Club Award, which recognizes the highest producing Re/Max associates based on performance. In 2015, the Chairman’s Club Award was presented to fewer than 2 percent of all active Re/Max...

By Chris Angermann, Sarasota Herald-Tribune Although many of them were beautiful homes, not all the residents were fans. Janet Minker still remembers arriving in Lido Shores in 2009 and getting ready to build a home there. “The first question neighbors asked was, ‘What kind of house will it...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune Ron and Bozena Suponcic, of Re/Max Alliance Group, have once again earned  the Five Star Real Estate Agent Award, for a combined total of 16 times. Based on an independent survey of recent home buyers, the Five Star Award is presented to fewer than 7 percent of real...

By Abby Weingarten, Sarasota Herald-Tribune Chef Cinzia Giulia Zanco of Osteria 7.13 (543 S. Pineapple Ave., Sarasota, 552-8657) — a new Italian cafe on the corner of Pineapple and Orange Avenues in downtown Sarasota — brings a worldly culinary past to the table. She was born in Venice to a...

Published in The Antique Shoppe by Elizabeth Lathrop Ford “Reduce, reuse, recyle” is now a popular slogan as more and more people look for ways to cut down on waste, conserve natural resources and protect the environment. While everyone is familiar with sustainable practices such...

Oct. 7, 2015 – PRLog — American Classic Car Sales of Sarasota has been ranked among the top Florida Gulf Coast companies in the Gulf Coast 500 annual list compiled by the Business Observer. American Classic Car Sales ranked Number 452 with $5.2 million in gross revenue in 2014, a...

By Cooper Levey-Baker, Sarasota Herald-Tribune Looking to graze on locally produced foods away from the punishing heat of a daytime farmers’ market? Me too. Sample Sarasota, a new “twilight foodie market,” launches this Thursday evening at downtown Sarasota’s...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune Andrew and Elizabeth Ford have acquired Sarasota Trading Co., at 522 S. Pineapple Ave., in Sarasota, from Lance Stahl. The deal includes the rights to the name and first right of refusal to purchase the 4,500-square-foot building. The Fords have expanded their store...

By Chris Angermann, Sarasota Herald-Tribune Hidden Bay is both a well-established and up-and-coming neighborhood. The condo community in Osprey has been around since 1997, when it was developed. But only two of its three sections were built out over the next four years. The third and final...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune STAFF PHOTO / RACHEL S. O’HARA STAGE ONE Home Showcasing has moved from White Plains, N.Y., to Sarasota. Owner Carol Myers works with Realtors, their clients and home owners to prepare the home for a quicker and more profitable sale. Myers has three fee...

By Billy Cox, Sarasota Herald-Tribune SARASOTA – “Indiana Jones” creator George Lucas has long insisted his inspiration for Harrison Ford’s whip-cracking adventurer were the generic B-movie swashbucklers of the 1950s. But that’s never stopped those familiar with...