{"id":93,"date":"2026-10-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cindyfurtadorealtor.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2026-10-10T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:00:00","slug":"why-sarasota-stopped-being-a-bargain-sarasotaluxuryrealestate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cindyfurtadorealtor.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/10\/why-sarasota-stopped-being-a-bargain-sarasotaluxuryrealestate\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Sarasota Stopped Being a Bargain | SarasotaLuxuryRealEstate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/cindy-furtado-1354105\/smart-retirees-buying-remotion-videos-d76b\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Sarasota still offers clear retirement draws, including beaches, cultural institutions, and a major hospital, yet many buyers often underprice ongoing ownership costs.<br \/>\nIn Sarasota, Gulf Coast ownership costs can widen retirement budgets because named-storm deductibles tie out-of-pocket exposure to dwelling value instead of a flat amount.<br \/>\nFor Sarasota homes in mapped flood zones, federal flood coverage can add another premium, while older condos face inspections, reserve funding, and assessments.<br \/>\nThat cost stack matters for retirees: one hurricane year can create a liquidity hit that a standard withdrawal budget was not designed to absorb.<br \/>\nEven with those tradeoffs, Sarasota is the answer when Gulf sunsets, beach access, and its established retirement lifestyle are truly non-negotiable for buyers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarasota still offers clear retirement draws, including beaches, cultural institutions, and a major hospital, yet many buyers often underprice ongoing ownership costs. In Sarasota, Gulf Coast ownership costs can widen retirement budgets because named-storm deductibles tie out-of-pocket exposure to dwelling value instead of a flat amount. For Sarasota homes in mapped flood zones, federal flood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":94,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfurtadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfurtadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfurtadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfurtadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfurtadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfurtadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfurtadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfurtadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfurtadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfurtadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfurtadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}