Downtown Sarasota Lot Sold in Absolute Auction

A downtown Sarasota property once slated to become a luxury condominium sold Thursday for $555,000 at a no-reserve, open-air auction.

That price was nearly $200,000 less than the developer paid two years ago for the same piece of dirt and probably half what the land might have commanded during the peak of the real estate boom.

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