Preliminary data show county value up 2.26%, while City of Sarasota realizes 3.17% climb from 2025 certified figure
During an April 20 presentation to the Sarasota City Commission, Kelly Strickland, the city’s finance director, reported that the city’s property value had been projected to rise about 4% this year.
That increase would have been less than two-thirds of the nearly 6.26% uptick that the Sarasota County Property Appraiser’s Office reported by the state’s July 1, 2025 deadline for the figures. (That timing was established to enable local governments to approve their “not-to-exceed” millage rates for the new fiscal year, as Truth in Millage (TRIM) notices are mailed out to property owners in August.)
Yet, the forecast Strickland gave the City Commission in April proved to be a bit off the mark, as shown in the preliminary figures that the Sarasota County Property Appraiser’s Office issued on May 22, just before the start of the Memorial Day holiday weekend. The climb from the 2025 certified property value for the city is 3.17%, as shown in those documents, which Chief Deputy Property Appraiser Brian Loughery provided to The Sarasota News Leader at its request…