The latest existing home sale figures from the Florida Association of Realtors may look like the beginning of the end for the Tampa Bay housing market - but real estate practitioners, see it more as the beginning of something good. (more…)
Single-family home sales off by a third. Condo sales off by half. More downbeat news from the Tampa Bay housing market. (more…)
Tampa Bay housing market credit counseling agencies say a new sort of client is turning up more often at their doors: Homeowners who can’t afford their homes. (more…)
In late 2005, Barbara and Gregory Klein agreed to sell their St. Petersburg home for $535,000 to a man who had seen their “For Sale By Owner” sign.
But when the Kleins went to complete the deal, their copy of the closing statement showed a different buyer - and a sale price of $599,000. (more…)
Condos For Sale.
The loud signs flaunted from street corners across the Bay area are meant to grab the attention of potential Florida mortgage borrowers.
Sales of existing homes in Florida took another dive in March, falling 28 percent from a year ago, according to the latest report from the Florida Association of Realtors. In the Tampa Bay housing market, it was even worse: only 2,502 homes sold, or 38 percent fewer than in March 2006.
The ripple effect of the collapsing Florida housing market has reached the halls of local government, with Hillsborough County pondering layoffs for some employees who oversee new construction.
The Tampa Bay housing market lost ground to its competition in the latest regional economic scorecard report.
Sex has been used to sell cars, clothes and cologne for decades - and now it’s aiming for a target demographic to drive slumping Tampa Bay housing market sales of residential condominium units in a market that could use a little excitement.
Due to a sluggish Florida housing market and a glut of vacant land in some areas, KB Home, one of the nation’s largest home builders, trying to unload land in three Tampa Bay area counties.
