With our expert knowledge and experience working within the Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch, and Sarasota, Florida real estate markets, we know how to help you with your unique needs and protect your best interests through every aspect of your real estate transaction. The Lersch Group is focused on providing you with the most personal attention and best service available.

You need the advice of a Real Estate Professional

The Internet is a great place to find Florida real estate information. But it can't provide the in depth local knowledge and personalized service of a local real estate professional. The challenges of the real estate industry are getting more complex every day. You need a Lakewood Ranch real estate professional that is on top of the market and is prepared to protect your interests and guide you throughout the process. As Lakewood Ranch local real estate experts, we are constantly researching the market and analyzing home prices so we can serve you with the latest and most accurate information.

For most families, buying or selling a home is one of the biggest decisions you'll ever make. We would be honored for the chance to help you.

You need an Agent who thinks “outside the box”

We are confident that we can suggest some new, innovative ideas to assist you with generating a sale for your property. Yes, even in today’s difficult market, there are always fresh ideas and new venues of marketing real estate that will increase your chances of generating a buyer. If you have suggestions, concerns, or just general real estate questions, our lines of communication are always open.

You need honesty and sincerity

It takes an aggressive real estate professional with realistic goals and honest communication to achieve this. In other words, we don’t just tell you what you want to hear. We will tell you the reality – no matter how joyous or how painful it may be. We have an extremely high success rate with our real estate listings and are consistently striving to continue that success.

If this is something that sounds like a refreshing change to you, then please give us a call so that we can further discuss what The Lersch Group can do to assist you.

WELCOME to the official web site of the Lersch Group, and Lersch Real Estate, one of the best sources for Lakewood Ranch real estate, Bradenton real estate and Sarasota real estate. On here, you will find a plethora of information for Manatee County, Sarasota County, and Lakewood Ranch. We also have provided a link on here for you to search the Manatee MLS (MAR), the Sarasota MLS (SAR), and Realtor.com, which offers a nationwide MLS search.

As Keller Williams Agents (KW Agents), and Lakewood Ranch local area real estate experts, the Lersch Group can provide you with all of your home buying needs and home seller needs. We are continually striving to achieve success and unveil new real estate marketing strategies. Charlie Lersch and Michele Lersch, both Licensed Florida Realtors, formed The Lersch Group with quality client services and success in mind. The Lersch Group has now grown to include a Buyers Agent, and a Marketing Assistant. By expanding our team, we can now offer our real estate clients a wide array of real estate services without compromising our quality of service.

The Lersch Group are members of both the area's multiple listings services, including Manatee MLS (MAR) and Sarasota MLS (SAR). If representing your home, we will post it on both MLS systems and maximize your listing’s potential. Additionally, we have our own web site, which we regularly maintain, at: www.lerschrealestate.com (or you can also go to www.mlersch.com), which you’ve already found if you’re reading this. We will post your property on our home page as a “Featured Listing” so that prospective buyers see it immediately when they visit our web site. We also subscribe to Realtor.com (www.realtor.com) and have increased marketing abilities for both Sarasota MLS (SAR) listings and Manatee MLS (MAR) listings. By having this ability, we can enhance your real estate listing’s visibility and web presence. In short, if we enhance your real estate listing, it will increase the probability of y our property coming up at the top of prospective buyer searches.

If you’re relocating to the Tampa Bay area, Sarasota, Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch, are a current resident upgrading, downsizing, buying an investment home, your first dream home, or vacation property, then the Lersch Group, licensed Keller Williams Agents, can help. We are proud residents of Lakewood Ranch, Florida (located in Manatee County) and love to see our neighborhood grow!

There are so many beautiful parts of Manatee County, Lakewood Ranch and its neighboring communities. There are some amazing properties out there and truly, there is something for every lifestyle imaginable! Some of these communities include: Lakewood Ranch, Lakewood Ranch Country Club, Lakewood Ranch Condominiums, Summerfield Village, Edgewater, Riverwalk, Mill Creek, Panther Ridge, River Club, The Harborage, Heritage Harbour, Greenbrook, Covered Bridge, Waterlefe, Sarasota Springs, Colonial Gables, Colonial Oaks, Lake Sarasota, Bent Tree, Forrest Lakes, Palm Aire, and more. We buy and sell in just about every are within Lakewood Ranch and beyond, so consider The Lersch Group, your local real estate experts. Whether you’re looking for a single family home, condo (condominium), town home, townhouse, villa, vacation home, investment property, land, new construction, commercial property, resell, or even a model home – you name it – we can find it or sell it for you!

Most communities, particularly in the Lakewood Ranch area, offer amazing amenities to its residents, some even considered to be “resort style amenities”. Just a sampling of these include: tennis courts, basketball court, pools (community pools, which are usually heated), spas, saunas, exercise facilities, nature walks, preserves, boat docks, boat access, fishing piers, playgrounds, and more! If golfing is your forte, then the Lakewood Ranch, Bradenton, Sarasota area is the best place to buy real estate! Some of the best golf courses are around for those who love the golfing lifestyle, or even just like to play golf in Florida as a hobby. Yes, we even have a Bobby Jones Golf Course and The Concession Golf Course, which has famously been backed and played by Jack Nicklaus.

If you’d rather spend your evenings on the water, then check out our beautiful Gulf Coast – home to some of the best beaches in the world! Here in Lakewood Ranch, Bradenton and Sarasota, you will be just minutes away from the beaches that some people only dream of seeing. Included are: Siesta Key, Casey Key, Lido Key, Lido Beach, Anna Maria Island, Bradenton Beach, and of course, the always desirable St. Armand’s Circle. Aside from the excellent Florida beaches, we also have some gorgeous rivers that now boast some of the most desirable communities in the area. The Braden River offers both fresh water and saltwater areas. The Braden River has boat access to the Gulf of Mexico. The Braden River also has real estate along is desirable banks to fit just about any budget. If you want a gated community or just a quiet family neighborhood, you are sure to find it along the Braden River.

In Lakewood Ranch, not only do we have some of the best communities in Florida, we also have some terrific schools! We have provided a link to Manatee County Schools on the Area Links page of our web site. As Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch, Sarasota Realtors, we feel that it is our obligation to provide our clients with as much information about our area as possible. If you are looking for a particular service, real estate connection, or just want to explore some area Suncoast attractions, check out our Area Links page. If we don’t have it on there, just ask us. You can contact The Lersch Group, Lersch Real Estate through our Contact Us page, or through the information provided at the bottom of each web page on the Lersch Group’s real estate web site.

Lakewood Ranch, Bradenton, and Sarasota, Florida are all abundant with culture. There is something for every Florida lifestyle including: the Ringling Brothers (Ringling Circus), Sarasota Film Festival, Lakewood Ranch Film Festival, Lakewood Ranch Polo Club, a Jack Nicklaus Golf Course, Bobby Jones Golf Course, Selby Gardens, Jungle Gardens, , the Suncoast Offshore Grand Prix and so much more!

The Lakewood Ranch, Bradenton, Sarasota area is also home to numerous celebrities who have also fallen in love with the Suncoast and Florida’s Gulf Coast. You might bump into Jerry Springer at a sports bar, Dick Vitale taking in a Cincinnati Reds game (where Sarasota is home to the Cincinnati Reds Spring Training), Stephen King at a local restaurant, or Brian Johnson (of AC/DC) promoting a local band. They all have chosen the Suncoast for its laid back Florida lifestyle. No paparazzi to run from here – although we do have an excellent news team in our area including the Herald Tribune (Sarasota Herald Tribune, Bradenton Herald and more), and our very own ABC Channel 7.

The Lersch Group at Lersch Real Estate with Keller Williams (KW) is confident that you will fall in love with the Lakewood Ranch, Bradenton, and Sarasota Suncoast just as we have. So, when shopping for a Realtor that best suits your needs, we hope that you will consider the realtors with The Lersch Group to be your top choice for all of your home buying or home seller needs. For Lakewood Ranch real estate, Bradenton real estate, or Sarasota real estate, give us a call. Whether buying Florida real estate or selling Florida real estate, we can help!

Recently, we have come across some very exciting news about our area. The Boston Red Sox may be moving their Spring Training to Sarasota, Florida! Being part of the Florida Red Sox Nation, we are ecstatic about this! For so many of us Florida Red Sox fans, it simply isn’t realistic to travel to Fenway to catch a Red Sox game, but if the Red Sox came to our own backyard, well that, they say, is a whole new ball game!

You can also find great local Lakewood Ranch, Florida real estate information on Localism.com Michele Lersch is a proud member of the ActiveRain Real Estate Network, a free online community to help real estate professionals grow their business.