ByRichard Olsen

ByRichard Olsen,

Forbes Staff.

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h, to be on the radiant quartz beaches of Sarasota County, Florida, in the blue-skies-glorious late-winter to spring months. Or, more precisely, to maximize that experience by retreating at day’s end to a beachhouse of one’s very own. But what kind of house would it be—rather, for this particular stretch of the Gulf Coast, what should it be, experientially and as an investment?