Longboat Key, Florida Longboat Key, an island oasis stretching 12 miles between the Gulf of Mexico and Sarasota Bay, is an ideal setting for your vacation or retirement home. While easily accessible, Longboat Key also allows you to get away from it all - in style. Longboat Key Homes for Sale This tropical paradise offers luxury real estate with a variety of housing options at nearly every price range: single-family homes, condominiums, townhouses, waterfront properties, as well as resort and maintenance-free lifestyles within prestigious and exclusive gated communities. Along its coastline, Longboat Key has waterfront canal homes of every size and shape.  Inside the Village of Longboat Key are quaint and historic homes for sale. Longboat Key Virtual Tour Longboat Key Activities Not only... 05/23/2012

Here's a fabulous opportunity to purchase an investment for now and the future!  This old florida concrete block home is situated beautifully on a deep water canal front lot (almost 10,000 sq ft). The owner has taken such good care of this home.  It has a newer roof and some newer appliances, too.  There are two very large bedrooms and two very large bathrooms, both with walk in showers.  There's a one car garage and indoor laundry room, too. One fascinating feature of this home is that the original owner was a fine art painter.  In three areas of the home, she painted beautiful murals like this one. Here's some photos of the interior of the home.     Now comes the BEST part.  This home is valued BELOW the land value.  That means that you can purchase this deep sailboat water lot with ... 10/26/2008

A Peacock Kills the Deal...As I was unlocking the door (2nd showing) to this beautiful home on the north tip of our glorious Longboat Key, the buyer, who had taken a stroll out back, came running around the front and said, "Nicki, don't bother with turning on the lights..." and as he was saying it, I opened the front door and there they were, female Peacocks sitting on, pooping on and dropping their feathers on, the beautiful architectural balcony of the $1.2 Million Dollar home...."that killed it for me,"he said. He said when he went out back, they were sitting on the steps and walking all over the yard.  I looked out.  There were about 10 of them.  None of them beautiful, as the females are not beautiful.  We had a good laugh, but I explained that if he put a caged pool in or even a c... 10/28/2007