Pinellas Property Online

1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. NAR Commends Senators for Offering Homebuyer Tax Credit Extension
(Home News/National News)

... to Sept. 30. They are Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sens. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn. “As the leading advocate for homeownership and housing issues, NAR commends ...

5. FEMA offers insurance rate cuts under remapping
(Home News/National News)

... Flood Insurance Program's Preferred Risk Policy – the program's lowest-cost option – to small businesses and homeowners on any land the new maps show are in newly designated special flood hazard areas. ...

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

More than 40 percent of homeowners with a mortgage say they would consider abandoning an "underwater" property, according to a national online survey released Thursday. The study conducted this month ...

7. Federal flood program set to expire at start of hurricane season
(Home News/National News)

Congress recently extended the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) through May 31, which means it now expires the day before hurricane season begins. Homeowners who need flood insurance should ...

8. How to keep up with mortgage payments
(Information and Facts/Mortgages and Money)

The share of homeowners behind on their mortgages fell in the first quarter, the first drop in four years and a possible sign that the foreclosure crisis has peaked. The portion of mortgages that were ...

9. IRS offers info on tax credits
(Information and Facts/Mortgages and Money)

... homebuyers and long-term homeowners wishing to replace their primary residence,” Russell says. “This information can be printed and placed for easy viewing” by interested buyers and sellers. Energy ...

10. Homebuyers scramble as mortgage rates jump to 5.3
(Information and Facts/Mortgages and Money)

... would-be homeowners are priced out of the market – a threat to the fragile recovery in the housing market. And if you wanted to refinance at a super-low rate, you may have missed your chance. Mortgages ...