Report: Sarasota, Venice among Tampa metro’s most expensive cities for rent

Area residents looking for a cheap apartment may want to avoid Sarasota and Venice. A new report from Zumper, a San Francisco-based real estate platform, found Sarasota and Venice had some of the highest median rent in the Tampa metro area last month. To calculate median rent, the site looked at the active listings that popped up in 11 Tampa Bay cities last month and took an aggregate score of each. Sarasota had the highest median rent, while Winter Haven had the lowest median rent of the…Original Article