Sarasota 34238

North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL · Sarasota County, FL · 13,878 properties · updated 7/26/2026

Should you buy here?buyer-timing lens

47affordability /100

Buyer leverage is balanced; weigh payment burden and the 3-lens valuation before bidding.

Payment burden

32.6%

stretched

Days on market

daily

Price cuts

31.0%

of active

Valuation

-23.9%

vs assessor

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/100

weak

cooling · balanced · prices easing year-over-year.

Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.

Buyer / sellerbuyer-timing lens

Balanced Market

Needs 8% correction for affordability

DOM: 60d (falling) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly

Score Components

Payment Burden (25%)50

Valuation Gap (25%)25

Supply & Demand (20%)100

Buy vs Rent (15%)75

Cancellation Rate (10%)25

Days on Market (5%)60

Balanced market in 34238. List price is roughly fair — focus on condition and value. Payment burden: 32.0% of median income. Median days on market: 60. Renting is approximately 69% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 20.3).

Balanced market conditions. Prices roughly aligned with fundamentals — similar to stable periods in 2014-2015.

COOLINGBALANCED

Market is cooling with expanding inventory. Conditions are balanced between buyers and sellers. Prices down 4.0% YoY.

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Market snapshoteach number, once

Median price

$497,334

▾ 4.0% YoY

Days on market

daily · zip_data

Median rent

$1,991

ZORI

Investor score

37/100

cash-flow lens

Active listings

254

90-day

Valuation3 lenses, different anchors

vs assessor

-23.9%

Market vs assessed value — a tax-roll lag, not a deal signal.

Avg assessor$378,300

county CAMA · properties_v

vs income

—

Fair-value model not available for this market.

fair_value_scores · 10-state coverage

vs county comps

+49.7%

County-wide market — the widest, slowest signal.

Sarasota+49.7%

Lotvox comps · mv_valuation_gap

Read together: Above county comps but sustainable on local incomes.

Pricing detail

Price / sqft$255

Price-to-income5.3×

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How 34238 ranks in FL

percentile vs all FL ZIPs

Comparative ranking not available for this ZIP.

Affordability, supply & momentum

24SUPPLY

OversuppliedSupply Tightness

Ample inventory — buyers have time and leverage to negotiate.

Months of Supply24.0 mo

Days on Market51d

Inv vs History-7.5%

Listing Density22.9/1k

Market dynamics

Price cut %31.0%

Momentumcooling

LeverageBALANCED

Months of supply24

Sales (90d)0

Investment analysis

Median rent$1,991

Price-to-rent20.3

Est. cap rate3.2%

Buy vs rentfavors renting

Livability

Walk score3

Transit score—

Bike score—

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Price bandsmix-shift

Price Bands — the median behind the median

A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from recorded arms-length deed transactions in Sarasota.

Current tiers · 12 months to Aug 25floor 10 sales/tier

1 tier had too few sales in this ZIP and are shown at county or metro level — see the stamp on each row.

Tier	Median	$/sqft	Sales	Share	Source
Under $250k	$190k	$174	63	10.7%	ZIP
$250k–$500k	$400k	$228	220	37.5%	ZIP
$500k–$750k	$608k	$266	172	29.3%	ZIP
$750k–$1M	$835k	$295	77	13.1%	ZIP
$1M–$1.5M	$1.13M	$333	37	6.3%	ZIP
$1.5M–$2M	$1.67M	$380	10	1.7%	ZIP
$2M+	$2.98M	$870	591	—	COUNTY · Sarasota, FL
All sales (the headline median)	$515k	$252	587	100%	ZIP

No mix-shift history for this area. no geography from this ZIP up to metro has 8+ quarters of 10+ recorded arms-length sales across at least 4 price tiers. Trends are drawn only from recorded transactions; the last-sale snapshot above cannot carry a time series, because a property that sold twice keeps only its latest sale — which drags the history upward through the tiers and would invent the very mix shift this section exists to test for.

National context — not local

NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the South census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 34238.

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Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.

Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Aug 25 (10 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.

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Sarasota County contextmacro · jobs · debt · migration

ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.

ZIP 34238→Sarasota County, FL

12-Month Direction

-19Moderate Deterioration

Confidence

100%

DeterioratingStableImproving

BuildersLens Market Intelligence

Market Score

41· Weak

Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.

Payment Burden49

30.5%

stretched

Source: Lotvox · Updated 2026-05-15

Buy vs Rent46

1.312x

rent advantage

Source: Lotvox · Updated 2026-05-15

Valuation21

+49.7%

overvalued

Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15