Tampa Bay Real Estate

Copyright © 2013 The Associated Press. U.S. home prices rose in January at the fastest annual pace since June 2006, just before the housing bubble burst. The gain shows the housing recovery is strengthening ahead of the all-important spring buying season. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home ...

A recent article from CNBC is indicating that banks may be moving back to lower down payment loans- something not seen since the collapse of the housing market which resulted in a 50% loss in values in some areas of Tampa Bay. Lenders are now beginning to approve low down payment loans, mostly due to the fact that the government ...

  There's been plenty of news recently about rising real estate prices across the U. S. But another area of concern for home buyers in Tampa Bay is starting to get some media attention too-rising home mortage rates. Long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week, a sign of market improvement according to the Federal Home Loan ...

Real estate sales in the Tampa Bay area remained strong during the final 2 months of 2012, and despite an extremely low inventory of homes for sale in the Tampa Bay area, closings for the first 2 months of 2013 have been strong as well. With prices on the upswing, more homeowners are finding themselves in a position to sell their ...

  The downturn in the economy put many people in a financial bind, making it harder to stay current on debts such as credit cards, cars, and homes.  Add the crash of the real estate market and a dramatic drop in property values, you add insult to injury for many, escpecially in the Tampa Bay real estate market where homes ...

 There will be continued tax relief for troubled homeowners who decide to do a short sale, deed in lieu, or apply for a principle reduction.   Yesterday, the House and Senate passed H.R. 8, legislation to avert the so-called "fiscal cliff." Following are real estate-related provisions of the bill, which ...

In what would normally be considered a slow month for Tampa Bay real estate sales, nearly 3800 homes were sold and closed in the month of October. That is an increase of nearly 25% over home sales this same time last year and up more than a third from 2010 home purchases. As the inventory of homes for sale in Tampa Bay continues to ...

   It had to happen at some point. The inventory of homes for sale in Tampa Bay has been steadily declining over the past 3 years. In September of 2009, there were nearly 28,000 homes for sale in Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco counties. Fast forward to 2012 and that number has dwindled to just over 14,000 houses on the ...

 According to a recent study by a Trulia economist- you can save hundreds of dollars a month by buying a home instead of renting – especially with today’s low mortgage rates. If you itemize your tax deductions and plan to live in the home for at least 7 years, the cost of renting versus owning is substantially ...

 Tampa Bay home sales continued to grow while prices generally stayed flat, another rocky step toward recovery for the local housing market.Total sales last month jumped 13 percent since August 2011 to nearly 3,000 homes across Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties, according to data from My Florida Regional Multiple ...