This custom built home features spectacular clear-story windows, a working fieldstone fireplace, and hardwood floors with cedar plank walls and pine ceilings throughout. Upstairs discover the master bedroom suite with its own porch and loft overlooking the living room. Additional highlights include recessed lighting, sound system, two-zone A/C, full hurricane shutters, generator hookup, and outside workshop.

This unit is spotless, bright and airy with vaulted ceilings and built-in Divosta wall unit in the living area. The home is configured in a split plan boasting two master suites, open kitchen area, huge breakfast bar, and newer appliances. Other features include a large laundry room, two-car garage with built-in storage and work bench, newer AC system, and storm shutters.

The Meadows is one of the area’s most desirable gated and patrolled subdivisions with wide sidewalks, lighted streets in a park-like setting. Enjoy easy access to major highways, shopping, beaches, golf and entertainment as well as “A” rated Martin County schools.

As a local or out of town home buyer, identifying suitable Stuart area property listings can be daunting when it comes to using the myriad of online search tools currently available. Evolving Web 2.0 technologies have made it it easier than ever to learn about, buy, sell, or rent properties. While your search preferences may range,  amongst others,  from Realtor.com, to Zillow or Trulia, each has its pluses and minuses when it comes to finding the right home for you.

I have found the clients I work with typically use several real estate search engines to “triangulate” on properties and areas of interest. My own online home search pages offer a blend of some of the best home search tools currently available to find real estate in Stuart, Florida, including links to our Multiple Listing Service through MLS Homefinder, MapTracks and Listingbook . These tools give you real time access to our MLS.

Online home search tools will generate a number of properties for your consideration. But it is raw data and not always accurate or up to date. That’s when it’s time to involve a local REALTOR®, who can provide expert knowledge of Stuart area homes and neighborhoods and represent you in your transaction (my out of town clients typically forward hundreds of property listings to me every day in order to gain feedback and guidance in selecting the best properties to see when they arrive).

As a Web savvy REALTOR® serving South Florida’s Treasure Coast, I can quickly filter your property selections through our MLS system, providing you with currently available listings. More important, as an agent with local expert knowledge, I will help you see past the “fluff” and recommend homes you will want to visit when it is time to schedule a tour.

This post has been authored by Eric Slifkin, REALTOR® serving South Florida’s Treasure Coast. You can reach me at 888-288-1765, or visit my Web site at www.TreasureCoastHomeSales.com. As your resource for information on new or resale homes throughout the Treasure Coast, please be sure to contact me about any home you may find on the Web, yard sign or ad and I will research the property, arrange showings and handle all the details.