however, as buying those pretty tiles can take the price higher.” A good location close to Siesta Key is Village Walk, part of Palmer Ranch, with two swimming pools, basketball and tennis courts, and gas station inside the gates (see pic, below). A three-bedroom townhouse is $200,000 (£127,413) and a villa with ‘shared wall’ (semi-detached) ranges between $275,000 (£175,193) and $325,000 (£207,047). One of the best current deals, adds Horn, is Stonehaven – four miles from Siesta Key – where a new three- bedroom, two-bathroom condominium with a garage to hold all the beach toys
is only $150,000 (£95,560). “But you need to move fast, as these homes will sell out over the next few months,” says Horn. Having vacationed in Sarasota
20 years ago, Tony and Gillian Bartlett, now 49 and 48, moved there permanently last June with their sons, Myles, 17, and Mason, 11. “It’s a great place to holiday, but it’s also a real place to live,” says Tony. The Bartletts managed to get an E2 visa to live in the US by buying a hairdressing salon. Their visa runs for three years, when it’s assessed for renewal on the profi tability of the business. Meanwhile, they’re building
up the company, while commuting back to the UK every few months to work for an airline. After looking at gated sub-divisions
(gated housing development) the family decided weren’t for them, they bought a traditional clapboard four- bedroom house on the mainland through Esti Baughen at Prudential Palms Realty (
www.estibaughen.com), where they can cycle over the bridge to Siesta Key in fi ve minutes. “Our house is on the canal with a
dock and boathouse (we’ve yet to buy a boat) and we can walk to the local supermarket and restaurants,” Tony adds.
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The Bartletts with their clapboard home & dock
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Three-bed home on Village Walk, $249k (£158k) through Maureen Horn
Right (inset) Typical Lakewood Ranch four bed/three- bath home for $540k (£344k) from Pat Tan
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