Pinellas Property Online

1. Officials launch ad campaign: Bay Area beaches are open
(Home News/Florida News)

... best beaches. As pristine as ever. We're open. Wide open." The ads are paid for with $1.15 million in BP grant money. But instead of targeting the rest of the country, these ads are aimed at locals ...

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

... the other businesses which rely on the real estate industry to make money. " I think its an abysmal catastrophe," Ory says, "that's orchestrated by a congress that is not aware of how dangerous it ...

3. Freddie Mac: Home Mortgage rates up from yearly lows
(Information and Facts/Mortgages and Money)

... in March. Rates have fallen further as investors, wary of European turmoil, shifted money into the safety of U.S. Treasury bonds. Mortgage rates tend to track the interest rates paid on long-term Treasury ...

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

... what they see in South Florida. ‘Impossible to lose’ “They feel it’s almost impossible to lose money,” said Costa. Africa Israel USA, the New York-based developer of the 292-unit Marquis Residences, ...

5. Pinellas Energy Effeciency Project, June 19
(Information and Facts/Pinellas Home Market)

... help you save money on utility bills! The class will be held at the Seminole Community Library at St. Petersburg College, Seminole Campus (9200 113th St. N., Seminole, Florida). Space is limited, ...

6. Freddie Mac: Mortgage rates hit yearly low
(Information and Facts/Mortgages and Money)

...  Treasury yields sank after Germany's move this week to curtail certain kinds of short-selling spooked investors, who shifted money from risky European debt to safer U.S. securities. A side effect ...

7. Going to Fort De Soto Park could soon cost $8 a car
(Community of Pinellas/About Leisure in Pinellas)

... some money … the county can't run without money," she said. The latest proposal is based on fees at Honeymoon Island, a state park that charges $8 a car load, said Paul Cozzie, director of Pinellas' ...

8. Weekly Economic Summary - April 23, 2010
(Information and Facts/Mortgages and Money)

... well. But it hasn’t. Most significantly, the number of applications for new purchase money home loans actually declined in the week ending April 9 by 10.5%.   An upward spike in mortgage applications, ...

9. Why does short sales takes so long?
(Home News/National News)

... losing much and sometimes can actually make money on these deals -- and so they can have little incentive to take a short sale offer."   They raise the hackles of Realtors, the fighting spirit ...

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

... confidence among investors about the economic recovery. And that growing confidence was reflected both in the higher stock market indices and in the apparent readiness among investors to put their money ...