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. 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 ...

4. 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: ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

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

... the meeting, Existing Home Sales will be released on Tuesday and New Home Sales will come out on Wednesday. Durable Orders, an important indicator of economic activity, will be released on Thursday. The ...

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

... on how to renew it. The president of the Metropolitan Association of Realtor , Joe Ory, says when home sales are halted it has a ripple effect on the entire economy because it also hurts all of ...

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

... sales director for Condo Vultures, a real estate advisory and research firm. The stampede from overseas is “kind of like a foreign subsidy helping us resolve our real estate problems,” said Peter Zalewski, ...

10. Florida Home Sales Increase +27% in April
(Information and Facts/Mortgages and Money)

"Sales of existing homes in Florida rose 27% in April, which means that sales activity has increased in the year-to-year comparison for 20 months, according to the latest housing data released by ...