North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL · Sarasota County, FL · 13,878 properties with county records
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Sarasota 34238 is in Sarasota County, FL, part of the North Port–Sarasota Metro. The typical home value in Sarasota 34238 is $496,664 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), down 2.6% from a year earlier. Homes that sold went under contract in a median 72 days, and 31% of listings took a price cut (Redfin Data Center, period ending Sep 30, 2026). On Lotvox's market-leverage reading of that data, with 4.5 months of supply, neither buyers nor sellers hold a clear edge. The Lotvox Turnover Index is not published for 34238 yet: it appears only where a held-out test on the county's recorded sales beats chance. Across Sarasota County's 24 ZIPs with a Zillow value, the middle one is $370,693, so 34238 sits 34% above the county middle. Typical rent is $2,078 a month (Zillow Observed Rent Index, September 2026). Lotvox holds county assessor records for 13,878 properties in 34238.
Headline value data through September 2026. Each source below carries its own date.
Is 34238 a buyer's or seller's market?
By Lotvox's leverage reading of Redfin data through Sep 30, 2026, 34238 is a balanced market. Homes went under contract in a median 72 days with 4.5 months of supply.
What do homes in 34238 sell for?
The typical home value in 34238 is $496,664 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), down 2.6% in a year. County records put the median at about $255 per square foot (computed Apr 21, 2026).
Who is likely to sell in 34238?
Lotvox only publishes its Turnover Index where a held-out test on recorded sales beats chance, and 34238 has not passed that test yet. When it does, the score appears here.
How does 34238 compare to Sarasota County?
34238's typical value of $496,664 compares with a middle value of $370,693 across Sarasota County's 24 ZIPs. Both are Zillow Home Value Index figures for September 2026.
Where does this 34238 data come from?
Values and rents come from Zillow's research data, sales pace from the Redfin Data Center, and property counts and turnover from county assessor and deed records. Each number on this page carries its own date, and the method is published at lotvox.com/methodology.
Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.
Buyer / seller
buyer-timing lens
Balanced Market
Needs 13.3% 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 2.6% YoY.
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Median price: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). Median rent: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). Days on market and active listings: Redfin Data Center, rolling 90 days.
Valuation
3 lenses, different anchors
vs assessor
-23.8%
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.
Housing pulse — Housing pulse could not be loaded (429).
Price bands
mix-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
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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.
United States
South
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.
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 Burden
34.6%
stretched
Source: Freddie Mac PMMS (FRED MORTGAGE30US) 7.32% · Zillow ZHVI · Census income · Updated 2026-10-22
Price-to-rent
19.9x
neutral
Source: Zillow ZHVI ÷ (Zillow ZORI × 12)
Valuation21
+49.7%
overvalued
Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15
Supply/Demand
4.5 mo
balanced
Source: Redfin Data Center (ZIP): inventory ÷ monthly homes sold · Updated 2026-09-30
Insurance Risk
47/100
moderate
Source: FEMA/NFIP · Updated 2026-04
County distress indicators
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Economic indicators are mixed relative to comparable U.S. counties.
Unemployment Rate
5.0%
FL 4.5%US 4.4%
Near national averages
Source: BLS LAUS · 2026-0857d ago
Poverty Rate
9.5%
FL 12.4%US 12.6%
Lower than most U.S. counties
Median Household Income
$80,633
FL $72,373US $82,006
Higher than most U.S. counties
Cost of Living (RPP)
101.2
FL 101.2US 100.3
Near national averages
Home Value (ZHVI)$398,681
County data: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), BLS, Census ACS, CDC, FBI UCR, Federal Reserve, USDA
