Sarasota County, FL: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Sarasota County, FL, Florida: 28 ZIP codes scored, Sarasota County, FL averaging 52/100 (high, Sarasota, FL), from 34 to 66. Sarasota County, FL is in its contraction phase (Sarasota, FL confidence 21/100): Sarasota, FL home prices down 1.5% (Sarasota, FL) over twelve months, 4.9% under their peak. Sarasota County, FL lender headwind: 45/100.
Highest-scoring Sarasota County, FL ZIPs: 34224 (66/100), 34223 (53/100), 34229 (53/100), 34231 (53/100), 34232 (53/100), 34233 (53/100). Also scored in Sarasota County, FL: 34234, 34235, 34236, 34237, 34238, 34239, 34240, 34241, 34242, 34275.
Across Sarasota County, FL's scored ZIPs: median home value $475,121, household income $79,536, 20.6% vacancy, 8.7% poverty, 77% owner-occupied, median age 55.5.
Sarasota County, FL insurance distress 99/100 (#7 in the US); FEMA hazard 99/100 for Sarasota, FL; 18 federal disaster declarations in Sarasota County, FL since 2023 (9 hurricane); 7,874 Sarasota, FL NFIP flood claims, $745.9M paid; Sarasota, FL construction distress 67/100.
36 banks with 140 branches lend in Sarasota County, FL; Sarasota, FL weighted bank stress 62/100, highest 91/100 in Sarasota, FL.
Sarasota County, FL unemployment 5.0% (Sarasota, FL -0.3 pts, six months); 5,525 new housing units permitted in Sarasota County, FL over twelve months, Sarasota, FL down 18% from 6,773; Sarasota, FL home prices +10.7% a year (Sarasota, FL) over three years.
266,492 housing units in Sarasota County, FL; 48,627 Sarasota, FL renter households; 52% of Sarasota, FL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 27% (Sarasota, FL) half or more.
Sarasota County, FL ranks #4 nationally on the opportunity index (Sarasota, FL, among all ranked counties); Sarasota, FL scores 44.3/100 and Sarasota, FL sits #4 inside Florida. Sarasota, FL is in the strong_buy opportunity phase; Sarasota, FL's primary driver is vacancy, Sarasota, FL second driver construction; Sarasota, FL moved up 3 places. 179 short-sale listings across Sarasota, FL; 97 days on market observed in Sarasota, FL; 18.6% vacancy over 28 Sarasota, FL ZIPs.
0.9% of Sarasota County, FL mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Sarasota, FL's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.6% (CFPB county sample). Sarasota, FL's ninety-day rate is up 0.6 points on twelve months earlier; the Sarasota, FL peak since 2008 was 7.6% in November 2011; Florida overall reads 1.2%.
Sarasota County, FL has 7 watched banks; 7 Sarasota, FL banks sit in an elevated band. Sarasota, FL footprints: Bayfirst National Bank (3 branches, stress 90) in Sarasota, FL; Seacoast National Bank (3 branches, stress 58) in Sarasota, FL; Crews Bank&Trust (3 branches, stress 50) in Sarasota, FL.
HUD lists 14 assisted multifamily properties in Sarasota County, FL with 1,667 units; 391 Sarasota, FL units are assisted, 3 Sarasota, FL properties under project-based Section 8.
54,288 of the 266,492 housing units in Sarasota, FL sit vacant. Sarasota County, FL permitted 1,317 multifamily units in twelve months; Sarasota, FL's one-to-four unit structures added 4,208 units in Sarasota County, FL.