Luxury Realtor experiences major successes despite pandemic

Other than having to wipe down door handles with disinfectant on the way out of a showing, the pandemic hasn’t slowed down Realtor Kim Ogilvie.

Despite the coronavirus, Sarasota-based Ogilvie, of real estate firm Michael Saunders & Co., has had a season of success in the luxury real estate market. Among the highlights: putting a little more than $30 million in real estate under contract in 30 days and representing the buyer of a record-breaking $13 million property in a deal that closed in early July. The Gulf-front estate on Longboat Key is the highest residential purchase reported in the Multiple Listing Service in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties. The deal actually closed at $13,000,001 to break the record — by a single dollar — previously set by a 2006 $13 million deal in Lido Shores that Ogilvie was the listing agent on. Ogilvie has other major deals pending now as well.