Pinellas Property Online

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

... home buyers. In Florida, a huge backlog of foreclosures and short sales working through the system continue to pump up the total number of transactions. And many in the industry are wary of another pending ...

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

... savings decimated by the recession, some can still preserve the dream of shopping for a second home -- to occupy occasionally or perhaps eventually permanently (26% of vacation home buyers surveyed by ...

3. International Interest in U.S. Homeownership Increases, Realtors Report
(Home News/National News)

International home buyers are increasingly attracted to property in the U.S., according to the National Association of Realtors’ 2010 Profile of International Home Buying Activity. Several factors, including ...

4. Short sales not immune to debt collectors
(Home News/National News)

... the buyer wanted the house badly enough to cover the outstanding note. Banks usually have four years in which to file a deficiency judgment, but they can sell it to a third-party collection agency -- ...

5. Tick, tock ... tax credit deadline looms
(Information and Facts/Mortgages and Money)

How's it going out there, racing to close home purchases by 11:59 p.m. Wednesday? That remains the deadline to qualify for the homebuyer's tax credit of up to $8,000. A measure extending the closing ...

6. Home price declines slowing in Tampa Bay area - Tampa Bay Business Journal
(Information and Facts/Pinellas Home Market)

... (3.4 percent down) and Washington (3.1 percent down). “The monthly increase in the [index] shows the lingering effects of the homebuyer tax credit,” said Mark Fleming, chief economist for CoreLogic, ...

7. Tampa home prices find balance in May
(Home News/Pinellas County News)

... Florida Realtors. “Favorable conditions like this spark buyers’ interest,” Davis said, in a release. “However, like the rest of the world, Floridians are deeply concerned about the long-term ramifications ...

8. Florida’s existing home, condo sales rise in May
(Home News/Florida News)

... said 2010 Florida Realtors President Wendell Davis, a broker with Watson Realty Corp. in Jacksonville.   "Favorable conditions like this spark buyers' interest," Davis said. "However, like ...

9. Super low mortgage rates
(Information and Facts/Mortgages and Money)

... the Home Buyer Tax Credit be extended? The answer to this question is not known as of this Friday morning. The Senate has approved an amendment to a larger bill to do so, but the larger bill is still being ...

10. No flood insurance available again
(Home News/National News)

... renews the availability of it. New Orleans home buyers, Bennett and Leslie Straight are among the thousands of buyers who cannot move forward with their home purchase. "It's mind boggling," she says, ...