Alongside her husband and longtime business partner, Michael “Mike” Taranto, Lauren has spent more than 25 years building TarantoTeam Real Estate Advisors into a respected presence in the Southwest Florida luxury market. Since 1999, their family-led team has served buyers and sellers with professionalism, market expertise, and highly personalized service. Their partnership combines Lauren’s enthusiasm, marketing instincts, creative vision, and deep understanding of the local market with Mike’s analytical and corporate business experience.
Before establishing herself in luxury real estate, Lauren owned and operated a fashion store in Wells, Maine. Her experience as a business owner strengthened her abilities in customer service, merchandising, presentation, marketing, and understanding the individual preferences of her clientele. Her lifelong enthusiasm for fashion and design continues to influence the way she approaches real estate today.
Lauren brings incredible energy and a distinctive creative eye to every property she represents. Her natural appreciation for architecture, interior design, color, proportion, and lifestyle presentation allows her to recognize a home’s unique character and communicate its full potential. Whether advising a seller on preparing a residence for the market or helping a buyer envision the possibilities within a space, Lauren combines her design awareness with practical real estate expertise to create an experience that is both strategic and inspiring.
Lauren specializes in luxury estates, beachfront and waterfront residences, high-rise condominiums, new construction, gated golf and country club communities, boating communities, relocation, investment properties, and 1031 exchange opportunities. Her experience extends across many of Southwest Florida’s most desirable communities, including Old Naples, Gulf Shore Boulevard, Quail West, Grey Oaks, Aqualane Shores, Bonita Bay, The Moorings, Park Shore, Bay Colony, and other distinguished Naples-area neighborhoods.
Lauren believes that location, condition, and price are the three essential factors behind a successful property sale. Her extensive transaction history includes multimillion-dollar sales involving beachfront land, waterfront residences, luxury condominiums, golf community estates, new construction, and downtown Naples properties. Her ability to adapt to changing market conditions, develop effective property strategies, and maintain strong relationships with buyers, sellers, and fellow professionals has been central to the TarantoTeam’s continued success.
Throughout her career, Lauren has received numerous professional honors from Coldwell Banker, including recognition through the International Diamond Society, International President’s Elite, and International President’s Premier. She has also received recognition from RealTrends Verified as a top agent by sales volume. These achievements reflect not only her sales performance, but also the consistency, determination, creativity, and exceptional level of service she provides to every client.
For Lauren, outstanding representation extends well beyond marketing a property or negotiating a contract. She takes the time to understand each client’s priorities, personal style, and lifestyle goals, providing knowledgeable guidance and individualized support throughout the buying or selling process. Lauren and the TarantoTeam also maintain a carefully developed network of trusted professionals and resources to help clients manage the many details that may accompany a move, purchase, sale, renovation, or transition to the Southwest Florida lifestyle.
Lauren’s commitment to helping others also extends beyond real estate. Her community involvement has included support for Coldwell Banker Cares and mentorship of teenage girls in foster care through Footsteps to the Future. As a grandmother of three and a leader of a multigenerational family real estate team, Lauren values family, trust, loyalty, integrity, and the lasting relationships created through exceptional service.
As the next generation of her family begins contributing to the TarantoTeam, Lauren continues to lead with the same enthusiasm, creativity, and client-first philosophy that have shaped her career. Her experience as a fashion entrepreneur, luxury real estate professional, business leader, mentor, wife, mother, and grandmother gives her a distinctive ability to understand both the financial and emotional importance of every real estate decision.
Whether representing a luxury seller, helping a buyer discover the right Naples community, or advising a longtime client through an important transition, Lauren considers it both a privilege and an honor to earn her clients’ business.
For Lauren, real estate is about more than buying or selling a property. It is about helping people discover a private, enjoyable, beautifully designed, and lasting Southwest Florida lifestyle that they and their families will cherish.
“Style is speechless.”
— Lauren Libby Taranto
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