Winter has settled into Florida, and recent weeks have brought some unusually cool temperatures to Sarasota. Because of this shift, many buyers and sellers are asking an important question: do cold fronts affect Sarasota mobile home sales and slow down the market? The short answer is that weather does play a role—but the bigger influence comes from seasonal buyer behavior, especially during the well-known snowbird season. Mobile homes on leased land in Florida are considered personal property rather than real estate. Buyers purchase the home itself, not the land underneath it. As a result, these transactions are recorded more like vehicle purchases through the Department of Motor Vehicles. Unlike traditional real estate, the sale price and closing date are not required to be a matter of...
