Pinellas Property Online

1. 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 ...

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

... party or a small private dinner – but they are just as pumped. Lured by rock-bottom prices, international buyers are now flocking to buy Florida properties. It’s especially true in countries where the ...

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

... lower rates for two years, a key lawmaker said. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said the Federal Emergency Management Agency's decision to offer the cheaper rates on properties affected by changes to ...

4. Florida’s existing home, condo sales up in 1Q 2010
(Home News/Florida News)

... for a decrease of 5 percent. According to industry analysts with the National Association of Realtors® (NAR), sales of foreclosures and other distressed properties continue to downwardly distort the median ...

5. Florida again No. 1 in mortgage fraud
(Information and Facts/Mortgages and Money)

... problem. In November, for example, federal prosecutors announced a nine-month investigation had nabbed more than 100 defendants and 700 properties from Tampa and Orlando to Jacksonville and Fort Myers. ...

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

... 15 to 19, indicating a jump in optimism about sales of new homes in the near-term future. And the number of new residential properties whose construction began in March exceeded the number in February ...

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

... is keenly focused on short sales because distressed properties are the new normal. Roughly 4,000 Florida Realtors have completed a short sale certification program since the National Association of ...

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

... in almost all categories – 30-, 90- and 120-day delinquencies on single-family properties – declined. Reasons for the improvement in the foreclosure rate: • Tougher lending standards since the housing ...

9. Vacation-Home Sales Up; Investment Purchases See Sharp Decline
(Home News/National News)

... than the sale of primary residences in 2009 with the former up 7.9 percent while the later rose 7.1 percent.  During the same period the sale of investment properties fell 15.9 percent. NAR's 2010 Investment ...

10. What is MLS?
(Information and Facts/General)

... that if one of them helped sell their houses, than the other broker would help them in the same way. Brokers agreed to compensate one another as the properties were being sold. Both sellers and buyers ...