Elena Ruiz
Longboat Key · Downtown Sarasota
Reads a condominium association’s reserve study before she reads the listing photos.
Beacon Realty, Sarasota
Which shore is yours?
An independent brokerage with an agent on every stretch of the coast.
Siesta KeyLongboat KeyDowntown SarasotaLakewood RanchVeniceAnna Maria Island
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Hear about it first
Tell us the shore, the kind of home and the price you have in mind. When a Beacon listing fits, the agent who holds it writes to you before it goes anywhere else.
About Beacon
A firm built around its agents
Sarasota is a coast of small markets that behave differently from one another. Beacon keeps a small group of agents, each rooted in a few of them, so the person who answers your call already knows the streets you are asking about.
The office sits above a bakery on Palm Avenue, a short walk from the bay. Listings, valuations and closings are handled in-house, and every agent’s name is on the sign.
How the firm works
Agents keep their markets
Each agent works the shores they know. When a call comes in for Venice, it goes to someone who has walked Venice.
Listings carry a name
Every Beacon listing names the agent who holds it, on the sign, the flyer and the page you are reading.
Questions get straight answers
Insurance, flood zone, association reserves: an agent tells you what the paperwork says, and says when it is not clear.
The agents
Ask for someone by name
Every Beacon agent is listed here with the shores they work and the kinds of home they know. Filter by either, then call the agent directly.
Meet a few of us
Daniel Whitcomb
Siesta Key · Anna Maria Island
Sails Sarasota Bay on Sunday mornings and knows which docks stay dry in a king tide.
Camila Ortega
Lakewood Ranch · Venice
Reads a builder’s floor plans and specification sheet line by line before anyone signs.
Marcus Bell
Downtown Sarasota · Siesta Key
Moved here from Chicago in his twenties and still keeps the list of questions he asked first.
Shore
Specialty
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Elena Ruiz
Condominiums · Waterfront
Longboat Key · Downtown Sarasota
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Daniel Whitcomb
Waterfront · Estates and land
Siesta Key · Anna Maria Island
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Camila Ortega
New construction · Relocation
Lakewood Ranch · Venice
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Marcus Bell
Condominiums · Relocation
Downtown Sarasota · Siesta Key
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Hannah Lindqvist
Waterfront · Estates and land
Anna Maria Island · Longboat Key
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Tomás Reyes
Relocation · New construction
Venice · Lakewood Ranch
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Ingrid Solheim
Waterfront · Condominiums
Siesta Key · Longboat Key
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Owen Achebe
Condominiums · New construction
Downtown Sarasota
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Rosalind Park
Estates and land · Relocation
Venice
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Julian Moreau
New construction · Estates and land
Lakewood Ranch
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Farah Haddad
Condominiums · Relocation
Longboat Key · Anna Maria Island
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Wesley Tran
Waterfront · New construction
Siesta Key · Downtown Sarasota
No agent covers that pair yet. Try a wider shore or a different specialty.
From the bay to the beach,
each with its own agents
Barrier islands and mainland neighborhoods carry different flood zones, insurance costs and association rules. Choose a shore for the local read, then meet the agents who work it.
A barrier island of Gulf-front condominiums, low-rise beach cottages and canal-side homes, with the village and its public beach at the center.
A narrow island with the Gulf on one side and the bay on the other: low-rise condominium communities, private beach clubs and single-family homes on deep-water canals.
Bayfront towers, mid-rise condominiums and older bungalow streets around the marina, with the converted warehouses of the Rosemary District to the north.
A master-planned community east of the interstate: lake and golf neighborhoods, newer construction and amenities run by community associations.
A Gulf Coast town of Northern Italian architecture and a walkable historic center, with single-family neighborhoods and canal homes farther south.
A seven-mile island of beach cottages, small rentals and a pier, low-rise by local rule and reached by bridge.
Exclusive listings
Homes with a name on the sign
Homes currently listed by Beacon agents across Sarasota, the keys and Lakewood Ranch. Each one names the agent who holds it.
Recently sold
Closed on streets like yours
Homes Beacon agents have recently closed on the same shores.
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Buying and selling, in the order it happens
Buying on the Gulf coast has its own homework
Insurance, flood zones and association reserves decide what a Gulf coast home costs to own. Your agent reads all three before you fall for the kitchen.
Meet your agent
A short call about the shore you want, your timing and the questions that keep you up. We match you with the agent who works that shore.
Set the terms
Budget, financing and insurance quotes come first, so you know what a home costs to own as well as to buy. Your agent walks you through each quote until the numbers make sense.
Walk the streets
Showings run in a planned order. Your agent flags flood zones, elevation, roof age and association rules as you go.
Write the offer
Price, inspection period and closing date, written with the paperwork already read. You see every draft before it goes out.
Take the keys
We stay through the closing table and hand over the keys, with the number for every contractor we would call.
Price is the first thing a buyer reads
A price grounded in the last sales on your street, photography and copy written for your house, and a call every week until closing.
Get an opinion of value
Send the address. An agent who works your shore writes back with a range and the recent sales behind it.
Prepare the house
A short list of repairs and paperwork worth doing first: the roof and wind-mitigation reports, the survey, the association documents. Your agent tells you what is worth doing and what can wait.
Go to market
Photography, a floor plan and a listing written for your house, shared with the buyers already on file. You approve everything before it goes live.
Read the offers
Every offer is laid out side by side: price, terms, timing and what the buyer’s paperwork says. Your agent explains each one before you answer.
Close and hand over
One person coordinates the inspection, the title company and the move-out date until the keys change hands. You always know who to call.
Join Beacon
Build your practice on the Gulf
Beacon is an independent Sarasota brokerage with room for agents who want a firm behind them and their own name in front.
A listing desk
Photography, floor plans, copy and syndication handled in the office, on your schedule.
Your own page
Every agent has a page on this site with their shores, their listings and their phone number.
Compliance kept for you
Contracts, disclosures and advertising reviewed by the principal broker before they go out.
A broker who picks up
A question about a contract or a difficult negotiation reaches the broker directly.
Client stories
What it looks like in practice
Three ways a move can go on this coast, and how an agent handled each.
- Ask about a situation like this
A sale that had to stay quiet
The seller wanted no sign and no open house. The listing agent showed the house by appointment to buyers already on file, and the neighbors read about the sale only after it had closed.
- Ask about a situation like this
Moving in on two weeks’ notice
A family relocating from the Midwest saw a short list of homes over a single weekend, on a route planned around flood zones and association rules, and wrote an offer before the flight home.
- Ask about a situation like this
A condominium with an assessment coming
The association had announced a special assessment. Before listing, the agent collected the reserve study, the inspection report and the last two budgets, so buyers’ questions were answered at the first showing.
Blog
Homework for the Gulf coast
Plain-English notes from the agents, written for buyers and sellers on the Gulf coast.
Buying
How to read a condominium association’s paperwork
The four documents that say more about the building than the listing does.
Selling
What a wind-mitigation report is, and why it shows up in your insurance quote
One inspection, and what an insurer reads in it.
Markets
Choosing between Siesta Key, Longboat Key and Anna Maria Island
Three barrier islands, compared by how they are built.
Let’s talk about your shore
Write to the whole firm or ask for an agent by name. Someone replies personally, usually within a business day.
- Phone
- 941.555.0100
- hello@example.com
- Office
- 100 Palm Court
Sarasota, FL 34236