Pinellas Property Online

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

... the Realtors assocation outlined future plans to move in full time). For other retirees, Wanderlust means buying or leasing an RV to travel the country's K-O campgrounds or downsizing a primary home to ...

2. 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 ...

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

... rather than later would help relieve some anxiety. Right now, people in all phases of the home buying process are working very long hours to close an unusually large number of purchases before the end ...

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

... a Condo Vultures principal. “This time the assistance isn’t coming from Washington. It’s coming from Caracas, London, Milan, Bogota.” The buying frenzy was set off by developers lowering prices on new ...

5. Florida’s existing home, condo sales rise in April
(Information and Facts/Mortgages and Money)

... to boost home sales across Florida," said 2010 Florida Realtors President Wendell Davis, a broker with Watson Realty Corp. in Jacksonville. "And buying conditions remain favorable, with a variety of ...

6. Unmarried women double home purchasing over unmarried men
(Information and Facts/Buying a Home in Pinellas)

Unmarried women accounted for 21% of home purchases in 2009, while unwed males were 10% of the buyers, according to a National Association of Realtors report in November. It's a dramatic shift from 1981, ...

7. Pending Home Sales on an Upswing
(Home News/National News)

Pending home sales increased again in March, affirming that a surge of home sales is unfolding for the spring home buying season, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The Pending Home ...

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

...  homes, typically sold at a 15 percent discount, accounted for 35 percent of sales last month – unchanged from February. “With home values stabilizing, a revival in home buying confidence will likely ...

9. Time Running Out: Homebuyers With About a Week to Get Tax Credit
(Home News/National News)

Josie Anderson is standing in another front yard of another home that she is thinking about buying. “I have to go look at five houses after this,” Anderson, 20, of Cedar Rapids said on Wednesday afternoon. ...

10. Weekly Economic Summary - April 16, 2010
(Information and Facts/Mortgages and Money)

... so successful last week? Wouldn’t investors shy away due to rising rates, which reduce the value of existing securities? No. Buying Treasury securities bearing higher yields was (and is, today) attractive ...