Pinellas Property Online

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

– At the end of 2009, Florida’s existing home and condo sales were higher than a year earlier, a continuing trend for statewide sales activity, according to the latest housing data released by Florida ...

2. A Decade of Dramatic Developments
(Home News/National News)

... values over the past decade have increased more than 25 percent, from $137,600 in November 1999 to $172,600 in November 2009 (the most recent existing-home data available). Fewer people are buying detached, ...

3. Government plans to end First-time Home Buyer Tax Credits
(Information and Facts/Mortgages and Money)

... Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, lawmakers upped the ante to a maximum of $8,000 for new buyers who closed before Dec. 1. They also said the new credit need not be paid back unless the taxpayer moves ...

4. Marketplace Statistics for the Month of October Now Available
(Home News/Pinellas County News)

Heading into the two final months of 2009, we’re seeing a much brighter picture than what we endured in 2008. We’ve moved out of the extreme buyer’s market into a buyer’s market. We are edging closer and ...

5. Florida’s existing home, condo sales up in October 2009
(Home News/Florida News)

... 2009 was $174,900, down 8.1 percent from a year earlier, according to NAR. In California, the statewide median resales price was $296,090 in September; in Massachusetts, it was $290,000; in Maryland, it ...

6. New Wave of Foreclosure Homes Looms
(Home News/National News)

... That compares with 2 million homes lost in 2009. Jumana Bauwens, a spokeswoman at Bank of America, says the bank is projecting an increase in foreclosures in part because customers will not be qualifying ...

7. Low prices draw investors back to market
(Home News/National News)

... property, compared to 5.6 percent in March 2009. The survey found that 15.8 percent of those interested in investment property were men and 8.1 percent were women and 52.6 percent of the investment buyers ...

8. Florida's existing home, condo sales up in 3Q 2009
(Home News/Florida News)

Sales of existing single-family homes in Florida rose 33 percent in third quarter 2009 compared to the same period a year earlier, according to the latest housing statistics from Florida Realtors®. A total ...

9. House committee weighs scrapping HVCC
(Home News/National News)

House committee weighs scrapping HVCC WASHINGTON – Nov. 2, 2009 – The appraisal system imposed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last May is under attack by the House Financial Services Committee and could ...

10. September Statistics Analysis - The Turn of the Market
(Home News/Pinellas County News)

After nine months into 2009, I think it is safe to say that we are clearly seeing a healthy adaptation to the current market realities. • 13 straight months of single family unit sales higher than the ...