Pinellas Property Online

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

Bucking a national trend, Florida home sales continued percolating in June, rising almost 15 percent compared with a year ago and up nearly 8 percent in just one month. With foreclosures continuing ...

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

Americans are back in the second home market in significantly greater numbers, according to the National Association of Realtors. In this country, where most of the sales occurred, half of the vacation ...

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)

With more than half of the Central Florida’s homeowners owing more for their homes than the properties are worth, the question for some has become: How do I get out of this? Of all the existing-home sales ...

5. Florida Shopping Guide: Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg
(Community of Pinellas/About Leisure in Pinellas)

...  Delightful downtown Dunedin has a charming character all its own. Its tree lined streets, beautifully refurbished homes and bungalows, and colorful downtown shops and restaurants create a cozy, hometown ...

6. 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 ...

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

Home prices, including distressed sales, in the Tampa Bay area dropped 2.6 percent in April compared with the year before, a bit better than the 4.1 percent fall in March, according to CoreLogic (NYSE: ...

8. Opposing view on real estate: It's still the American Dream
(Information and Facts/Buying a Home in Pinellas)

Vicki Cox Golder There's a reason homeownership is called the American Dream. U.S. history is replete with instances of government support of homeownership, from the Homestead Act during the Civil War ...

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

Home prices continue to stabilize in the Greater Tampa area as single-family sales climb. The median sales price for existing single-family homes in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater in May dropped ...

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

Sales of existing homes in Florida rose 18 percent in May, marking 21 months that sales activity has increased in the year-to-year comparison, according to the latest housing data released by Florida ...