$4.75 million sale on Longboat Key

By Harold Bubil , Herald-Tribune

/ Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Cheryl Loeffler, a top-selling agent with Premier Sotheby's International Realty, has announced the sale of a waterfront house on Longboat Key at $4.75 million.

The sale is the fifth highest-priced residential transaction in Sarasota County this year.

The 5,000-square-foot house, at 560 Harbor Point Road in Bay Isles South, was listed by Loeffler at $5.2 million.

Jon Fox of Michael Saunders & Co. represented the buyers.

Loeffler had both sides of a record $6.75 million condo sale on Longboat Key in April.

Other top sales this year: $10 million for a house on north Siesta Key, $7 million for a house in Sarasota's Harbor Acres and $6.35 million for a house in Lido Shores on Lido Key.

Harold Bubil

Recipient of the 2015 Bob Graham Architectural Awareness Award from the American Institute of Architects/Florida-Caribbean, Harold Bubil is real estate editor of the Herald-Tribune Media Group. Born in Newport, R.I., his family moved to Sarasota in 1958. Harold graduated from Sarasota High School in 1970 and the University of Florida in 1974 with a degree in journalism. For the Herald-Tribune, he writes and edits stories about residential real estate, architecture, green building and local development history. He also is a photographer and public speaker. Contact him via email, or at (941) 361-4805.