See a $19.9 million Casey Key estate, now on the market
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A 3.5-acre Casey Key waterfront estate is on the market for what would be a record sales price in Sarasota County: $19.9 million.
The Gulf-to-Bay property features 9,600 square feet of living space. A detached guest house features a covered pavilion. The property also features a stunning Olympic-size saltwater pool.
According to a news release from listing agent Joel Schemmel of Premier Sotheby’s International Realty in downtown Sarasota, the Nokomis estate was built in 2018. The home was designed by Naples-based Stofft Cooney Architects and built by Sarasota’s Michael K. Walker.
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Modernist icon on Casey Key on the market for $7.65M
A storied Gulf-to-Bay modernist home designed by acclaimed architect Toshiko Mori has come on onto the market for $7.65M.
Marsha Fottler
West Wind is a 7,000-square-foot estate with Gulf-to-Bay views that includes a main house, a two-bedroom recently renovated guest house, a one bedroom pool house, swimming pool, three-car garage and gardens on 1.6 acres on exclusive north Casey Key.
The home was custom designed and built in 2002 for Renee and Mike Silverstein, New Yorkers who were looking for the ideal Florida winter vacation retreat. The architect for the project was internationally acclaimed Toshiko Mori, a Japanese architect who is the founder and principal of New York-based Toshiko Mori Architect, PLLC and Vision Arc. She is also a Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Construction was done by Michae