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Sarasota / Bradenton, FL housing market

Sarasota / Bradenton, FL median sale price $580K in Aug 2026, up 10.9% year over year. Also days on market, price cuts, affordability and ZIP-code figures.

The median sale price in Sarasota / Bradenton, FL is $580K as of Aug 2026, up 10.9% from a year earlier. That is the 10th-largest year-over-year gain of the 195 U.S. metros Pecan Street ranks on this measure. FHFA's repeat-sales index for the metro points the other way: down 0.5% through Q2 2026.

On median sale price, Sarasota / Bradenton ($580K) ranks 3rd of the 11 Florida metros Pecan Street tracks, between Miami / Fort Lauderdale ($650K) and Tampa / St. Petersburg ($472K). On median days on market, Sarasota / Bradenton (88 days) ranks 3rd of the 11 Florida metros, between Fort Myers / Cape Coral (91 days) and Miami / Fort Lauderdale (85 days). On share of listings with a price cut, Sarasota / Bradenton (30%) ranks 8th of the 11 Florida metros, between Pensacola (33%) and Fort Myers / Cape Coral (29%).

Listings spent a median 88 days on market in Sep 2026, the 6th-most of the 195 metros. 30% of active listings carry a price cut, 1.3 points fewer than a year earlier. That share is lower than in most of the 195 metros. Building permits authorized 1,140 new housing units in Aug 2026.

At the 7.45% 30-year fixed rate with 20% down, principal and interest on a median-priced home come to $3,228 a month; at 28% of gross income, that takes about $138K a year. The median sale price equals about 17 years of HUD Fair Market Rent, a ratio up 1.4% from a year earlier. That ratio is higher than in most of the 195 metros. Active listings ask a median $264 per square foot, down 2.6% from a year earlier.

In nine of the 12 ZIP codes in the table below, median list prices are lower than a year earlier; three are higher.

Headline

Median sale price

Aug 2026

$580K

+10.9% year-over-year

How it’s calculated

Rolling 3-month median sale price vs. same 3 months one year prior.

Mortgage rate

Oct 6, 2026

7.45%

30-year fixed

Where it comes from

National benchmark: Optimal Blue OBMMI 30-year conforming, via FRED. An average of rates borrowers have actually locked, updated daily.

The same rate appears on every market page.

Monthly payment

Principal & interest

$3,228/mo

$138K/yr income needed

How it’s calculated

Payment — this market’s median sale price with 20% down, on a 30-year fixed loan at the rate shown. Principal and interest only — no property tax, insurance, PMI or HOA.

Income needed — that payment at 28% of gross income. A rule of thumb, not a lending decision.

How Sarasota / Bradenton compares to other U.S. metros

Days on market	↑6th of 195 (top 4%)
Home-price growth	↑10th of 195 (top 6%)
Price cuts	↓160th of 195
Price-to-rent	↑52nd of 195 (top 27%)

Rank across the U.S. metros Pecan Street tracks, on market data alone — a higher rank means more of that measure (more price cuts, faster price growth, a wider asking-vs-sale gap, a higher price-to-rent ratio, or more days on market). The bar shows where this metro sits within that metric’s own cohort (left is more, right is less); ↑ and ↓ mark the positions furthest from the middle, and rows are ordered the same way. Metrics without data for this metro are omitted.

Affordability

Price-to-rent ratio	≈ 17 +1.4% YoY ↑52nd of 195 (top 27%)
Asking price / sq ft	$264 -2.6% YoY

Price-to-rent divides the median sale price by the annual HUD Fair Market Rent (a 3-bedroom, 40th-percentile benchmark), so it is a directional rent-vs-buy read, not a cap rate; its year-over-year change is directional in the same way. Asking price per square foot is the median across active for-sale listings (Realtor.com), as of Sep 2026. The bar under a figure places this metro among the U.S. metros we track on that measure, highest first.

Market pressure

Listings with a price cut	≈ 30% -1.3 pts YoY ↓160th of 195
New housing units permitted	1,140

Price-cut share is the portion of active for-sale listings that have taken a price reduction (Realtor.com), as of Sep 2026. New housing units authorized by residential building permits in the metro that month — new supply in the pipeline, which counts of existing listings don't capture (US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey), as of Aug 2026. The bar under a figure places this metro among the U.S. metros we track on that measure, highest first.

Market facts

ZIPs with listing data	12 shown of 43
MLS board of record	Stellar MLS
Price methodology	Redfin vs FHFA HPI
Data as of	Aug 2026

Recent signals

No signals flagged for this market right now.

Recent notable readings

Zillow home values were lower than a year earlier in 36 of 43 ZIP codes across the Sarasota / Bradenton metro (Aug 2026): the 5th-highest share among the 174 U.S. metros Pecan Street tracks with enough ZIP-level data to compare.
Single-family building permits rose 21% over the 12 months through Aug 2026 (11,717 homes, against 9,706 the year before): the largest increase among the 37 metros that permit 5,000+ single-family homes a year and the 12th-largest of the 195 U.S. metros Pecan Street tracks.
The FHFA house price index for the metro fell 51% from Q2 2006 to Q2 2011: the 9th-deepest bust of the 195 U.S. metros Pecan Street tracks with FHFA data; it has risen 215% since Q2 2011: the 13th-largest rebound of the 194 metros whose prices fell.

Readings from the latest data that sit at one end of the U.S. metros Pecan Street tracks, from the nightly cross-metro comparison. They are not signal alerts.

Price reconciliation

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Redfin (city)

+10.9%

FHFA HPI · Q2 2026

-0.5%

Year-over-year home-price change from two independent methods — Redfin (monthly sold price) and FHFA (quarterly repeat-sales index). When they diverge, the market is mid-shift; cite the figure with that in mind.

Market dispatches

Citable market dispatches for Sarasota / Bradenton → Latest dispatch: Jul 10, 2026.

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ZIP-level data

ZIP	Median list price	Active listings	New listings	Price reductions	Days on market	Home value
34209	$400K↓	288↓	72↑	98↓	87↓	$390K↓
34210	$296K↓	226↓	64↑	64↑	97↓	$275K↓
34211	$565K↓	328↓	128↑	134↓	73↓	$548K↓
34219	$423K↓	348↓	136↑	154↓	73↓	$413K↓
34221	$416K↑	298↓	84↓	138↑	80↓	$353K↓
34228	$1.0M↓	211↓	56↑	36↓	141↑	$956K↓
34231	$412K↓	224↓	70↑	52↓	88↓	$366K↓
34236	$1.9M↑	313↓	52↑	34↓	140↑	$1.0M↓
34238	$420K↓	206↓	54↑	64↓	96↓	$497K↓
34242	$1.1M↑	266↓	42↑	34↓	123↑	$846K↓
34287	$299K↓	210↓	48↑	64↓	75↓	$252K↓
34293	$392K↓	379↓	130↓	104↓	82↓	$366K↓

ZIP figures from Realtor.com listing data; home value from Zillow ZHVI. ZIP codes shown have the most complete listing-data history and active for-sale inventory in this metro; the latest available month is shown per ZIP. Arrows show the direction of each figure against the same three months a year earlier; no arrow means the change rounds to zero or the comparison isn't available.