Big week so far for Saunders agent

By Harold Bubil , Herald-Tribune

/ Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Michael Saunders & Co. agent Stephanie Church has had a good week, and there are still three days to go.

Today, she sold a 2-acre beachfront compound that she had listed in Siesta Key's gated Sanderling Club at $6.25 million. Linda Weber of Coldwell Banker brought in the buyer.

On Monday, Church brought the buyer to the $4 million sale of Residence #1101 at The Beach Residences at the Ritz-Carlton, located at 1300 Benjamin Franklin Drive, on Lido Key. That transaction, which closed at $953 per square foot—the highest in the building since 2005—also represented the highest year-to-date sale of a condominium in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties.

The condo was listed at $4.395 million by Cheryl Loeffler of Premier Sotheby’s.

That is $10.275 million in volume in two days for Church.

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.