Meet Your Local Professional in Venice
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adno=3853382-1 As she grew up with sand between her toes, as she puts it, she wondered where her vocation lay. She made her nameplate her shingle and opened her fi rst offi ce on St. Armand's Circle in 1976, catering to elite waterfront luxury homes in Sarasota. • e company has since expanded to 23 branch offi ces throughout Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties, ranking as a market leader and the largest local independent brokerage. As a company, we have aligned ourselves with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® and Luxury Portfolio Internation®. As members of these global networks, we can assit home buyers and sellers beyond our tri-county area through 550 of the best-known local and regional real estate fi rms, with 4,600 offi ces and 150,000 sales associates in over 70 countries. Following a year of economic uncertainty and leveraging digital solutions in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic, we set a new record in sales volume, reaching $4.79 billion for 2021. 1200 South McCall Road, Englewood Open Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm Sat -9am-4pm/ Sun- 10am-4pm 941-473-7750 2022 2022 Saunders's parents named her for an Elizabethan ancestor, English poet Michael Drayton. As a child, she moved with them from Tampa to north Longboat Key, where her father opened a marina. "I grew up in a family of entrepreneurs, some more successful than others," she says. "But entrepreneurial thinking held that you could do anything you wanted in life – if you were prepared to pay the price." Meet your local Real Estate Company Meet Your Local Pro July 30, 2022 | Venice Gondolier Sun 16