Brooke Walters tells her students at Sarasota High School that a big part of success in life is knowing the rules and then following them. The veteran Spanish teacher sees herself very much as a rule ...

Property owners who suffered damage from Hurricane Debby may be entitled to reductions in their property taxes, according to an email from Sarasota County Property Appraiser Bill Furst's office.

Sarasota County Property Appraiser Bill Furst's office will no longer increase a homesteaded property's taxable value for routinely replacing a roof after two homeowners successfully challenged the ...

SARASOTA — The Sarasota County Property Appraiser’s challenge to Marie Selby Botanical Gardens' tax-exempt status was thwarted on Monday even before arguments over whether the $58 million property ...

Rejecting lower-court decisions, the Florida Supreme Court said that a Sarasota man should not have received a homestead property-tax exemption for part of his house that he rented out. The Supreme ...

Correction: Selby Gardens controlled all aspects of the event space renovation for what would later be renamed “Michael’s on the Bay.” This included approving plans and contractors. A previous version ...

*The Sarasota County Property Appraiser recorded 1,267 purchases from buyers outside the U.S. totaling $216,225,600 from Aug. 1, 2013-Sept. 30, 2014. During the same period, Manatee County recorded ...

Florida homeowners have increasingly been forced by insurance companies to replace their roofs under threat of huge spikes in premiums — that is, if they can get coverage at all. At the same time, in ...

Sarasota City Commissioners file annual financial disclosure forms, with their professional backgrounds ranging from law and marketing to retirement. A 2023 Florida law requiring more detailed ...