Starry Thoughts

The chatter in many commercial real estate quarters is decidedly downbeat these days, but the vortex hasn't sucked in Larry Starr.

Instead, Starr, a Longboat Key-based entrepreneur who founded a multimillion-dollar resort properties firm in the 1980s, has bet big on a market resurgence.

“The market is bad if you continue to be overpriced,” says Starr. “Unless you have buyers and sellers who are willing to be realistic, then you will say the market is bad.”