My FLORIDA HOUSING MARKET Predictions 2025
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My name is Adam Hancock.
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Today I wanna talk about, like the title suggests,
some predictions of sorts.
I have eight topics that are kind of thought exercises
I wanna explore.
I think it's a good time.
We're in November.
It's a weird time in Sarasota right now
with the storms and the holidays and all this kind of stuff.
So we're really gearing up for Q1.
And I have some things that have recently happened
that I think will continue to happen
to hopefully give you an advantage.
We're gonna talk about the juxtaposition
of the progression of inland suburbs stretching.
The Northeast Lakewood Ranch perished onto Welland Park.
We're gonna talk about,
can bad or less desirable parts of town historically
be solved by master plan concepts that insulate it?
We're gonna talk about the storm effects
on the suburbs versus the coast.
Missed opportunities in 2020 that you can get today.
I have a golf update for you.
Talking villas versus single families and a lot more.
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All right, point number one, no particular order.
What I've been seeing a lot lately,
especially over the last six months
in more volume than previous,
they're still choosing those master plan suburbs, of course,
especially in Southwest Florida.
But instead of just choosing the suburb itself,
I'm seeing a lot of this heave over a tipping point
of leaning into the fringe part of those suburbs.
So for instance, Lakewood Ranch, Florida,
12 miles city center wise-ish to the town itself.
The beaches, all the stuff you move to Sarasota for.
Well, a lot of folks are moving into those areas
that are 19, 20, 22 miles, just above a couple cross streets.
Paris, Florida, more extreme version,
28 miles one way versus 12.
Welland Park, a lot of the new developments
are going even further south.
It's all bleeding into this like,
in borderline, your address is gonna be Englewood
or Northport in the future here,
where previously in like most years,
that would have been a deterrent in a lot of people's eyes
because you're just too far.
You're like, okay, I'll move to Lakewood,
but I'm not crossing this limit
of whatever this imaginary stretch of too far
versus not too far.
What I'm seeing happening is people are saying like,
I was never really gonna move to downtown Sarasota.
It was never 23 miles to Star Farms versus two
in the middle of Bay of Vista.
It was always, I'm gonna live in a suburb already,
and I'm most likely in my criteria,
if I'm looking on the fringe,
I'm in the same criteria that's maybe 16 miles one way
or 15 miles.
All I'm doing is stretching the 15 to 21,
where all I'm doing is stretching Star Farms from 23
to Parrish being 28.
If you look at that juxtaposition,
it's not a great sacrifice in a lot of people's eyes,
but what they gain in house is huge, literally,
like no pun intended.
You get maybe that 62 foot front plain lot,
and you get that 3,300 square foot house
with a three bedroom, two and a half den,
a bigger backyard versus if you try to jam that
into the lower part of Lakewood Ranch,
maybe it would have been the 52.
Maybe you could only afford the Farnese
versus the Palazzo or the Lincoln or something like that.
They're getting that pool
where they would have not gotten it
because they saved 150 grand
and now they can do the pool build
and that whole patio and screened in
and the travertine and all that
where they wouldn't have been able to
because they wanted the bigger house,
they would have lost the pool.
Space in general, thinking about amenities,
what Del Webb Catalina is gonna do.
I mean, you see these restaurants
and all these things that aren't in normal,
non-golf based communities that are just ridiculous.
They have these huge lakes
and all this kind of stuff they can do out there.
And I'm just generally seeing it as a lot less of an issue.
We're gonna talk about in a minute here,
especially when it comes to the storms
and all that kind of thing.
And if you can lean into that
before everyone else has done so,
you can gain a pretty big benefit.
Okay, number two is gonna roll
right off the back of number one.
And that is simply how much does Master Plan
really solve any geography issues that may exist?
You know, if developers carved out,
let's say 3000 acres
and they have 11 to 14 neighborhoods,
they build all of them from scratch,
the roads, the infrastructure,
even the trees, the plants and the grass,
everything completely from scratch.
Would it matter once you got over there
realistically day to day,
where that set in town?
You know, a great example,
if you took Waterside's district of Lakewood Ranch,
if you drop that in any part of Sarasota,
any part of Manatee,
would it not feel really similar once you got over there?
Seaflower is a great example.
Seaflower, the new one,
if you haven't heard me talk about,
is above the SRQ Airport,
above the, you know, the tennis,
the Voluntary Academy and all of that
in Western Bradenton, Mainland,
in an area that typically is not laden
with new construction beyond Palmasola,
is a little bit choppy house to house,
value to value,
it's an old area,
it's up and coming,
all that kind of stuff.
What Seaflower is gonna do
is drop something similar to what I just described,
is they're gonna drop,
not as big to start,
but probably eventually,
a defunct flower farm turned into 1500 acres
that are gonna have seven, eight builders
that you've heard of,
building it all from scratch,
they're gonna have like a town square,
around a big lake,
farmer's markets,
all that kind of thing,
in an area that is unbelievable on a map.
If you're not that familiar with Sarasota,
but you're looking at geography alone on Google Maps,
unbelievable,
3.2 miles to the beach,
Longboat Keys right there,
Bradenton Beach,
Anna Maria Island,
the bays in between,
but once you get over there,
it does not feel like that.
If Seaflower immaturity is there,
does that change the conversation?
North River Ranch is even a simpler example,
North River Ranch in Parrish,
that area again,
28 miles one way to the stuff,
and you could say,
oh, it's not that far from Tampa,
not that far from Sarasota,
which I agree with all of it,
but it's still 28 miles one way
from what,
why most people move to Sarasota.
If you work,
if you commute,
you're dealing with all of that.
Well, they built a place that makes the argument for,
especially if you work from home,
of how often do you have to leave,
how often do you wanna leave,
but you gain huge benefits when it comes to cost.
I mean, if you wanna really take that on steroids,
look at Sunbridge in Orlando,
that's built in like St. Cloud,
like would not be necessarily a destination spot
historically.
Look at Siena,
south of downtown Houston,
Easton Park outside of Austin,
look at the Grove in DFW.
These are all spots
where you can make the argument of,
if you pick them up and drop them in other spots,
would it take away a lot of the negatives
that came with geography and logistics
of the town themselves?
So I'm gonna let that rest,
but I think an interesting thought exercise.
All right, number three is a little bit of a sensitive one,
but I just wanna touch on it,
cause I don't do this a lot,
but that is the idea of the effect of the recent storms
and hurricanes within the Southwest Florida area
to the suburbs.
And you know, if empathetic wise,
like I grew up on Siesta Key,
my parents in the first one,
not even the second one that hit Siesta Key directly,
the first one that had the surge from Big Bend
lost everything,
lost their cars,
they live on a canal,
they lost everything.
They're parallel, they're on high goal,
parallel to the like the ODA Academy.
I get it if you're watching this and you were affected,
trust me.
What I wanna talk about is,
you know, the unique geography of Southwest Florida
when it comes to how they line the master plan to the coast
and like how that day-to-day lives,
you know, cause if you go from the downtown Naples
all the way up to like Westy Chapel,
so you're crossing Collier County, Lee,
you know, Charlotte and all through that,
Sarasota, Manatee, Pinellas, Pasco, Hillsborough County,
all the way covering the Southwest Florida corridor
and look to the right, right?
That's the simplicity of the water being left
is you look to the right
and you sit in that 10 plus mile range.
The stack of the new construction
suburb master plan concepts,
way greater in Sarasota and a little bit in Tampa.
And then I would say third would be the Naples,
but it's unique.
You have some of the most unbelievable
coastline historically.
And then you have some of the biggest,
sexiest master plan concepts
in the United States as a whole
that hug these small towns.
But if you take the way that 10 to 15 miles lives
versus jamming your way in just to be closer,
what you gain I think is tremendous security.
I mean, no one knows what's gonna happen, right?
The storm hits Big Bend
and my parents lose their house in Siesta Key.
Like no one knows,
like these are a hundred year events, right?
So I'm not gonna get crazy about the insurance
and all that kind of stuff
because these are disasters
that are mostly out of our control beyond preparation.
I lived in the aisles.
My really good buddy has a couple of houses
in Summerfield and Lakewood Ranch.
Most of our agents live in the Lakewood Ranch area,
at least North of Fruitville.
And just the effect on the recent storms to them
versus all my friends and family
that live on the coast is insane.
But you're talking 15 minutes further to drive this stuff.
And not only do you kind of buffered by that kind of stuff,
but you're also, you gain mostly everything.
You gain new construction,
which gives you the modern coding,
impact windows if hopefully.
One of the benefits of,
you can hate plot a new construction,
but one of the benefits of being in the suburbs
to plot a new construction is the,
everything's underground.
A lot of the internet's underground.
The power lines are underground.
It's just stuff that if it already existed, it's there.
If you're in the, like the aisles is a great example.
You run that university corridor
and people are like, I hate seeing power lines.
Well, that's just because that stuff was already there.
Again, the loads of benefits you gain
because people think it's a bummer
to live that far from the coast.
I just think in Southwest Florida,
what it gives you the benefit, it's not like Orlando.
You're not an hour and a half versus not.
You're talking 15, 18 minutes in a commute
that if you're from the Northeast or any of these areas,
like, I mean, I talked to people that are five years
removed from living in like New Jersey
and they're like, yes, there is traffic.
There's not no traffic,
but the traffic is palm trees and beautiful water.
And I'm driving over bridges.
I'm not sitting in small traffic.
So even perspective, I think the negatives
aren't that negative in comparison.
So if you look at, so with that being said,
I mean, I think that's where a lot of this is gonna go.
It's just people are like, I'm not gonna,
if you've been through one of these events
and you're on the key, I just think people are tired.
You know, I don't know.
I think my parents are gonna,
they'll ride that out for the rest of their lives for sure.
But I think people are tired.
And you look at like Babcock Ranch in Punta Gorda.
You look at like what Lakewood Ranch is doing.
Parish is like saying like, maybe I should look at that.
What Wesley Chapel's doing, East of Brandon,
you got Alva, North Fort Myers,
and then you throw on top of like Del Webb's
and all these in the conversation.
So I don't wanna get too crazy here,
but it was just a thought.
I mean, I think like if you see what happened
two to five miles from the coast
from what happened 15, 25 miles from the coast
in the same exact town, insane.
Insane about the rebuild versus the not.
And let alone like the insurance costs
that are gonna come with this and all this kind of stuff.
It's just something to think about
if you're moving to Southwest Florida
is that the benefit is that we do have the option
of one or the other.
And a lot of coastal towns in Florida don't.
You know, if you go inland,
it's not Lakewood Ranch that sits beside you.
You know, it's just random towns
with these random houses that were already there.
So anyway, that is point number three.
All right, point number four is kind of a random one,
but what I've been seeing in kind of the advent
of the world we live in now of all of this development,
all this new construction going on
where things are being pushed East and North and South
naturally because this stuff was already built
in front of them.
I've seen developers start to back their way
into carving out little tiny pieces of land
to do these small concepts in desirable areas.
Where you couldn't build another 500 to 1,000 homes.
And a really good example of this is the new Waterbury Park,
if you've ever heard of that.
That is, it's brand new,
but it's in the Lakewood Ranch area.
And it's gonna be like 21 total homes
built by Neil Signature.
It's this little sliver,
but where it sits is on University.
It's above the aisles by Toll Brothers.
It's adjacent to the Lake Club.
It's right by the Del Webb, the original one.
It's an area that people really enjoy,
but you just can't simply do one of those bigger concepts.
And then what they're adding on top of it
to kind of sweeten the pot
is a uniqueness and a boutiqueness
of a home style, size, et cetera,
that'll allow people to get something
that it would be hard to replicate.
If you loved, this is kind of a niche example,
but if you loved the Lake Club at one point,
especially the previous regime before stock came in,
you loved Wild Blue, maybe the Oaks down in the Encomas,
and it just didn't work out, wasn't for you.
Maybe you don't want 600 neighbors.
Maybe the timing didn't work out, whatever.
Then this would give you another shot.
Neil's Signature, the semi-custom outfit,
is going to do 3,500 to 4,500 square foot homes here.
There's gonna be 100 plus front with planes.
That's not your average.
Most of these neighborhoods don't even go up to 90.
And then this one comes in.
It's probably gonna be 1.5 to 2.5 million on average
where maybe Monarch Estates with John Cannon next to it
is three to eight million.
The concessions is expensive.
And Kingfisher Estates down in Waterside
is a little bit more expensive.
So they're trying to add layers that would fit 21 people,
not everyone, but are also in areas
that people want to be to that you can't do again.
So this is the thing is like,
it looks like there's a billion homes to pick from
when you look at these areas remotely.
But when you get into your unique criteria,
you start to chop it down,
whether it's timing or whatever it may be,
criteria, all of this kind of stuff.
A lot of people don't even have a short list
of two to three in my experience
that they would actually buy versus each other.
And a lot of reasons that people don't buy at all
fit in this crowd of being like perfect,
but I don't wanna live in Star Farms
or something like that.
So anyway, I think it's interesting.
I think you're gonna see a lot more of this
because it does not take a lot of land to accomplish.
There are no frills, not amenity rich,
but if you want a nice luxury boutique house
in a beautiful part of Southwest Florida,
this is a great way to achieve it.
All right, point number five is,
especially for that person that was sitting here
in 2019, 2020 and hasn't bought yet
or bought something they regretted.
But also is for the new people.
And that is the idea of missed opportunities
and what you can do today.
There are a lot of fantastic releases
that have just come out or about to come out,
especially in the Sarasota-Manatee area
that are versions of what already has happened
that people were obsessed with at the time they happened.
So whether you want to get early in for equity,
you want to get the new version of what you used to want,
but you don't wanna buy the resale of that one.
This is a great thing to look at
and history is a great predictor
of the future in this realm.
So Del Webb Lakewood Ranch, people are obsessed with,
it was one of the only 55 and up new construction
at the time.
And then Crestwind came in, of course,
but Del Webb Catalina is the new kid on the block.
It sits directly north of it.
It's gonna be unbelievable,
very similar floor plans to what they've always done,
but the amenities are gonna go from broke.
Del Webb Bayview was the parish version of Del Webb
and Del Webb is the 55 and up
active adult living brand of Pulte, if you weren't familiar.
But Del Webb Bayview Parish is where I would take people
to juxtapose Del Webb Lakewood Ranch.
You could save 150 to $200,000 a floor plan at the time
because of the sacrifice to the location.
Well, Del Webb Sunchase is now the new version of that.
Another great example is the Esplanade brand.
So people have always been obsessed
with the Esplanade brand by Taylor Morrison.
It's some of the best trade-off of amenities for the cost
and floor plans on each size of their collection.
Just amazing orientation, beautiful, beautiful communities,
amazing amenities, and a lot of options.
Well, so they basically had a bunch of Esplanades
in Sarasota and then they built Esplanade Golf
and Country Club out in Lakewood Ranch.
People really liked that.
It was deeded golf,
which we're gonna talk about in this video as well.
And then Esplanade Zario hit and people went crazy.
What's happening now?
And then Esplanade Sky Ranch.
So really the last couple of years,
we've had Esplanade Zario versus Esplanade Sky Ranch,
very different communities, very different locations.
So Esplanade Welland Park is the new one.
It's out by the Myakka Ponds Golf Club.
I've talked about that a little bit.
That's gonna be like 850 total homes.
They're gonna have the Bahama Bar out there
and that has basically close access
to all the Welland Park stuff.
Potentially golf in the future, not now,
but gonna be beautiful.
And then they're gonna build an Esplanade
in the Waterside area that's above Wild Blue, I believe.
So these are two to really look at
that I think will go as crazy, especially the Waterside one,
is gonna go as crazy as anything has
over the last couple of years.
And it'll give you another chance
to take a fresh chance at the villas,
the condos in some of these communities,
take a fresh chance at the collection
like the Farnese and the Lazio at the 52 foot.
I don't think they're gonna do a lot of the Beacon
and the Lincoln with the larger lots here,
but you're gonna get the Palazzo in play here.
There's a lot of, I mean, the Roma,
there's a lot of opportunity if you get in early.
And think about the phases.
The phases is almost like, in a lot of ways,
it's almost like, it's weird what to say,
but it almost price fixes comparable values.
So if they're gonna build a community
that's 1,000 homes, for instance,
especially in this kind of market,
it might take like three, five plus years to build that out.
Well, phase one to the end of the phases,
think about how all the appraisal values are made.
Like they don't want these things to under-appraise
when you're in contract, right?
So think about the rate, them trying to time everything.
TaylorMorris is a huge company,
them trying to time phase one to phase three to phase four.
If you get in early potentially on these,
and if you guess right,
and you get the right incentives
and all these kinds of things,
then it almost guarantees,
the old world guaranteed like two to 300,000 of equity,
but it almost guarantees you're good.
So while they're building yours out,
while you get in pre amenity, right?
It's because you're taking a chance
because there's no amenities yet.
A lot of times you'll benefit in a 50, 100 plus K in equity,
if you can play your cards right,
no guarantee of course,
but I think it's a really interesting way to invest,
even if it's your homestead.
Okay, point number six,
I'm gonna hit just because I just mentioned
that Roma and Esplanade, the model made me think of it,
is the idea that villas are really becoming in vogue.
Like if a lot of people from out of state,
they don't think of villas,
like we think of them in Florida,
but a villa in Florida would just be like two houses
that are attached in a master plan,
new construction neighborhood,
it's the ones that I'm speaking about.
They're the closest thing that live like a single family
without being it,
but there's a lot of perks.
I think one of my greatest mistakes I've ever made,
especially in the last like 10 years,
was I had a video,
I forgot which video,
but probably in 2020,
where I was like screaming from the rooftops at the time,
I wasn't liquid enough to do anything,
but I was screaming at the rooftops
to buy all the villas you possibly could think of
inside the Windward community by Neil.
They were like 260 grand,
extended patios,
and I was walking all these models that were like next door
that were just single family.
It's just the idea of villa versus single family
that a lot of people probably rightfully so
are thinking about resale and all this kind of stuff.
And there were like $200,000 difference in price,
but very similar square footage.
And when you got inside,
they walked similar.
A lot of villas have two car garages.
Literally it's like two houses that were touching,
but it doesn't feel like it once you get inside.
And those villas,
I mean, the amount of those that sold for 500 plus $1,000,
$600,000 like three years later was monumental.
Big regret of mine,
but can't go back in hindsight here.
Yeah, we've been seeing that become a big, big thing.
It's something to really look at
is if you look at these 14 to 18,
2100 square foot villas,
they sit in these new construction neighborhoods
and they have the cheapest HOA because of the size.
A lot of that HOA fees cascade by size.
They've shared amenities and maintenance
because the roofs touch.
A lot of the lawns in these communities now are turnkey.
You know, it's built in the HOA anyway,
and it allows you to get in unbelievably desirable areas.
It's like the better version of doing a condo.
A condo you get in great areas
because they use height instead of width for lands.
They can pack units in a stack.
But a lot of condos,
most condos are like fiscally,
it's not that responsible of a decision
because you're just laden with fees and reserves
and all these kinds of things.
Assessments,
villas are the opposite.
You get maybe all the perks,
less of the benefits other than perceived value on resale.
So if you look at like the Neal Villas,
Taylor Morrison's,
you get in these Esplanade communities,
you could buy into Deeded Golf.
They were selling these at 350, $360,000.
If you're like a snowbird
or you want to buy one
while your 5,000 square foot house is being built,
or you want to just buy something into Deeded Golf,
which is very hard to come by.
Like you're like, okay,
I'm building a Arthur Ruttenberg house over here,
but I want to Deeded Golf into Lakewood National
or the Colusa National,
the new version,
one of the Esplanade.
This is a fantastic way to do it.
And I would really,
if you've ever taken a look and you're like,
oh, I would never do a villa,
I would really take a second look.
And we've seen this switch in people's minds greatly.
If you think you're taking a chance
by buying new construction right now,
I mean, really think about this.
Look at the cost differences.
All of these communities hop in width.
If you have different collections,
they're like Neal has these five collections
or these guys have these six collections.
Look at what they're doing.
It's either going to be home type
and or it's going to be width.
So they're going to,
say a villa is going to be home type one, right?
It's going to be a narrow lot,
two houses attached.
And then typically they're going to hop
to like a 40 something foot width collection.
And then they're going to hop to maybe 52,
something like that,
hop to 60, 62,
and then they go from there.
Look at the price differences
in the smallest single families versus the villas.
This is where I'd really focus.
I'd look at Neal,
I'd look at Taylor Morrison.
Homes by Town has some really, really sweet,
very small homes.
And then you can get in most desirable areas
of the entire town
in typically the most expensive areas
of the entire town.
And you'd be sitting over here
while everything's over here.
If you, even if you don't take it from me,
just the pure data is showing
that this is where people are really leaning
from risk mitigation and potential equity upside.
Okay, I just want to hit two more updates
for this particular video.
And this one is for golfers.
If you're looking in the market right now
and you're a golfer,
I have two quick updates
as far as communities and timing.
And then we're going to do more content
on this as well.
So the first one is called Calusa Country Club.
This is the new version of Lakewood National,
which was in Lakewood Ranch.
Just sits right beside it.
So it's all Lenar.
Lenar, the big spec builder.
Pre-sales started last week.
We're looking at timeline here.
And again, we're going to do more stuff on this.
You can reach out in between,
but we expect the course to be completed
around January 25.
Single family home delivery,
starting around April 25
and then condos around August
or like somewhere in the summer of 25.
So a lot of people bought investments for these.
A lot of people,
this is just, again, a great way,
a great and affordable way to buy into deeded golf,
which is a little bit scarce at the moment.
The second one's probably in the opposite end
of the spectrum as far as type of community.
And that's called Soleta.
S-O-L-E-T-A.
This is one of the,
this is going to be really, really unique.
This one is a Nick Price designed 18 hole course.
David Ledbetter design academy,
practice and training facility.
They're attracting just world-class staff
from all over the place
because of the prominence of who's building this thing.
Under a hundred homes total,
it's all going to be anchor and John Cannon.
So a super custom outfit,
also weirdly family friendly.
So it's not going to be pretentious custom.
It's going to be like a throwback to old Florida
based on the location and everything.
So I think it's a really nice,
like refreshing change
to like a lot of what's being built right now.
You know, it's at a premium 1.7 plus,
but you could do like the three to 5 million,
really, really nice stuff out here as well.
What else?
A couple of things from timing.
It's supposed to be this month in November 24
that the golf course opens to members.
Fall 25,
we believe there's going to be the completion
of the lagoon style pool.
Full food and beverage facility
is supposed to be there as well.
The kids club and the performance center.
And then early 25 somewhere,
anticipated vertical construction of custom homes.
Believe 14 to 17 homes are expected to be underway
by the first quarter.
So both really interesting.
Again, reach out.
We have a lot more detail than that.
And let me give you one more update.
All right, my eighth and final point I want to make today,
I'm just going to kind of deem as filling the gaps.
I talk a lot about bookends, you know,
Parish, Northeast Lakewood Ranch, Welland Park,
you know, these opposite ends of town.
Well, what's in the middle is Sarasota itself.
And there is that whole same Eastern inland area
that's the same distance to the coast
and all that kind of stuff.
We don't talk about a ton.
And that's the area that's maybe 10, 11, 12 miles east
of Siesta Key, the real central area.
Well, there's a community out there right now
called Sky Ranch, which, you know,
a lot of people really, really enjoy.
It's quite beautiful.
You had a community out there called Artistry.
There's another one called Worthington
that was across the street from that.
Grand Parks over there.
And then a lot of just old school Sarasota,
all the neighborhoods that kind of surrounded
the Twin Lakes Ballpark.
And then the reason it's 10 miles is, you know,
all that in between is this kind of hodgepodge
of random neighborhoods.
That's where like a lot of the Mennonite country is
and pine crafts and all that.
Well, what's going to happen
and the reason I'm saying filling the gap
is that's going to change quite drastically
from let's say 2024 to 2040.
And it's really going to get,
the point here would be,
it's going to be a nice third option.
That's a nice juxtaposition.
So you're going to see this area called 3H Ranch,
which is going to be like 12 to 14 different neighborhoods.
There's going to be, you know,
Pulte and a lot of the normal built,
Neal's all going to be in there.
My opinion, they're going to build, you know,
master plan areas that look like,
kind of like a water side.
You're going to have a commercial and office space
around a bunch of different neighborhoods.
And it's going to look a lot different
than just randomly Sky Ranch sitting there in the middle.
The reason we talk about these others so much
is they look like they do online.
They look like full Pleasantville.
When you get there, it's simple.
It's cool.
It's beautiful.
It's potentially looks better in person
than it does online.
And that is rare.
You drive over to Sky Ranch.
It looks like a random, nice neighborhood
in between what you can't make context of
if you're not from Sarasota.
In the future, it's going to look quite different.
But what I do think it'll do,
it won't look exactly the same.
So maybe Lakewood Ranch's traffic is getting too crazy.
Maybe you don't want to commute from Parrish.
Maybe there's, maybe that's not for you.
Maybe you want new construction
and you do like the idea of communal amenities,
but you don't need 33,000 acres of it.
And maybe Welland Park's too far south, something like that.
And, you know, a lot of people deem
Siesta Key as the Holy Grail.
You know, like I said,
I mentioned at the beginning of the video,
I grew up like, you know, bordering the island.
My parents have lived on the key
for the last 20 years or something.
And so I'm romantic about it.
I get that whole thing.
I love Lido in downtown as well,
but a lot of people feel like
that's the reason they moved to Sarasota.
That is what they picture in the picture of Sarasota.
And this area gives it a little bit closer access to it.
If Waterside is a certain distance to Lido,
well, this is your Siesta Key version.
So anyway, I'd keep an eye out for that.
If there'd be a lot of opportunity in the future there,
because it's so vague and ambiguous,
that I do think just like early Welland Park
is if you can make moves envisioning what it may be
before people can see what it actually is going to be,
then of course you'll get an advantage for that trade-off.
All right, folks, that is a wrap for today's video.
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