Pinellas Property Online

1. Florida home sales rise 8 percent in one month
(Home News/National News)

...  Single-family home sales in the Tampa Bay area: June 2010: 3,226 June 2009: 2,848 June 2008: 2,346 June 2007: 2,428 June 2006: 3,751 June 2005: 5,230 June 2004: 5,149 June 2003: 3,871 ...

2. Vacation homes sales on the rise again after serious slump
(Home News/National News)

...  Vacation home sales rose 7.9% to 553,000 in 2009, from 513,000 in 2008, but that 2008 tally was down 30.8% from 740,000 in 2007. The plunge back then was largely attributed to a lack of equity from a ...

3. Foreign buyers are flocking to Florida condos again
(Home News/Florida News)

... at $375,000. His unit cost $317 per square foot – “a great price, incredible,” he said. A recent plunge in the euro – it’s now worth $1.23, down from its high of more than $1.60 in 2008 – could cool things ...

4. Survey: 4 in 10 homeowners would consider walking away from ‘underwater’ mortgage
(Home News/National News)

... more homeowners to walk away in the coming years as the stigma of foreclosure fades. This is the fifth such survey of consumer attitudes since 2008, but the first time questions about underwater mortgages ...

5. Florida again No. 1 in mortgage fraud
(Information and Facts/Mortgages and Money)

... by professionals increased 7 percent from 2008, a record year, to 2009. Why did that happen if the housing market by 2009 was in tatters and the volume of mortgages and home sales had declined? Several ...

6. Existing-Home Sales Rise on Home Buyer Tax Credit and Favorable Market Conditions
(Home News/National News)

...  ago, and is 21.7 percent below the record of 4.58 million in July 2008. “Foreclosures have been feeding into the inventory pipeline at a fairly steady pace and are being absorbed manageably,” Yun said. ...

7. Why does short sales takes so long?
(Home News/National News)

... for a Responsible Federal Budget, a Washington, D.C.-based think-tank, reports that the FDIC has taken over 203 failed banks since 2008, many with a loss-share agreement. Total deposits so far this ...

8. As deadline looms, 10 million visit tax credit website
(Home News/National News)

... site in July 2008 as both an educational and marketing tool. “NAHB went live with the site the same day the credit was signed into law in 2008, and it quickly became the Internet’s premier source ...

9. Vacation-Home Sales Up; Investment Purchases See Sharp Decline
(Home News/National News)

... and Vacation Home Buyers Survey shows a total of 553,000 sales of vacation homes in 2009 compared to 513,000 in 2008.  However, the sales of investment homes plummeted from 1.12 million to 940,000.  The ...

10. Florida’s existing home, condo sales up at year end 2009
(Home News/National News)

... Realtors®. Existing home sales rose 31 percent at year’s end, with a total of 163,148 homes sold statewide compared to 124,168 homes sold at year end 2008, according to Florida Realtors. Existing home ...