Downtown Sarasota Living
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Downtown Sarasota Real Estate
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4 Bed • 5 Bath • 6,131 Sf • 2 Acres
$8,050,000
200 Quay Commons #ph1903, Sarasota
Under Construction. One Of Only Three Remaining Ph Floorplans. Located On The Last Premier Waterfront Site In Downtown Sarasota, The Ritz-carlton R...
View Listing4 Bed • 6 Bath • 8,111 Sf
$6,500,000
990 Blvd Of The Arts #1800, Sarasota
Soaring Above The Waterfront And The Evolutionary Sarasota Skyline, The Penthouse At Beau Ciel Takes The City Living Experience To Panoramic New He...
View Listing4 Bed • 7 Bath • 5,500 Sf • 1 Acres
$6,400,000
1224 Blvd Of The Arts #ph1, Sarasota
Pre-construction. To Be Built. One Word, Stunning. The 5500 Sqft North Penthouse Of Blvd Sarasota Is Now Available And Is Unlike Anything Sarasota...
View Listing4 Bed • 5 Bath • 4,855 Sf
$6,300,000
100 Ritz-carlton Cir #ph1902, Sarasota
Pre-construction. To Be Built. Recently Released This 19th Floor Penthouse Offers 4,855 Square Feet Of Living Space, 4br/5baths, 12- Foot Ceilings ...
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$6,100,000
35 Watergate Dr #ph-1802, Sarasota
Rarely Available, This Stunning Ritz-carlton Tower Penthouse, In A Most Desirable Corner, Is One Of Four Grand Penthouse Residences On The Top 18th...
View Listing4 Bed • 5 Bath • 5,655 Sf • 1 Acres
$5,899,000
605 S Gulfstream Ave #11, Sarasota
Pre-construction-to Be Built." If You’re Looking For A Downtown Condominium With Custom Home Quality, Look No Further Than This Rare Full-floor Res...
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Downtown Sarasota

About Downtown Sarasota
Internationally-acclaimed opera. Live theater. Art galleries. Fine restaurants. Sidewalk cafés. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. Technicolor sunsets over Sarasota Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Saturday Farmers Market.
Everything’s close by when you live in Downtown Sarasota.
Photos by Louis Wery
Residential Market Overview for Downtown Sarasota
- Total Listings for Downtown Sarasota: 4,222
- Average Listing Price for Downtown Sarasota: $667,453
- Highest Listing Price for Downtown Sarasota: $17,000,000
- Lowest Listing Price for Downtown Sarasota: $10,000
Market Statistics for Downtown Sarasota
This overview graphs activity for single-family homes and condos in ZIP Code 34236 during the past 12 months.
More about Downtown Sarasota
Downtown Sarasota residents extol living at the center of Florida’s Cultural Coast. Located less than 15 minutes away from the famous Gulf beaches, the City of Sarasota clusters most everything cultural at its center.
The Theater District includes the Sarasota Opera House, which draws audiences from all over the world to its famous Verdi Cycle. The Florida Studio Theatre campus looks like a village of theaters – the historic Keating and Gompertz Theatres, and the Parisian-style Goldstein Cabaret.
We call Palm Avenue “Gallery Row,” but there are art galleries or crafts galleries on most streets downtown. Palm Avenue’s First Friday Gallery Walk expanded to include Main and State streets, and the event’s popularity inspired a Third Friday Art Walk at nearby Towles Court Art District.
The Burns Court Cinemas screen independent and foreign films and the Sarasota Chalk Festival takes place annually in nearby Burns Square.
Downtown Sarasota hosts a vibrant nightlife with excellent restaurants, frequent street festivals and music events all within walking distance of the city center.
The Fanciful Legend of Sara de Soto
Sarasotans have been known to make up stories about where Sarasota got its name. No doubt, you’ve heard that the town was named for the explorer Hernando de Soto’s daughter, Sara. Thus Sara Sota.
The embellished tale included a romantic story about how she fell for an Indian brave who fell ill. After he had recovered, Sara came down with the same disease and died. She was buried in Sarasota Bay, and supposedly 100 Indian men drowned themselves so that their souls could protect her for all eternity.
Some storytellers take the yarn further and claim that’s why Sarasota has been protected from hurricanes. The City of Sarasota has not experienced a direct hit in more than a century, but we’ve had our share of near misses in times since the de Sotos were here.
Historians point out that a 1763 land-grant map showed the name Zarazote or Zara Zote for this area. Some think that the word may derive from the indigenous Calusa language and mean “Place of the Dance.” Others see references to the dunes or the Sahara in the first syllable and, in the second, the azure blue Sarasota Bay.
In other words, how Sarasota got its name was lost in time. Federal postal regulations in the 1800s may have combined Sara and Sota to become Sarasota.
Location Map for Downtown Sarasota
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Listing information last updated on February 16th, 2019 at 4:15am EST.