The St. Petersburg real estate market is HOT! I listed the house at 114 35th Ave NE in St Petersburg for $230,000. There were 5 showings the very first day it was on the market. Within 24 hours I had a call from a gentleman who found the home online through our marketing, and wanted […]
5 Things Consumers Should Expect From The 2013 Housing Market
Forbes.com published an article recently entitled “Five Things Consumers Should Expect From The Housing Market In 2013“. I’d like to highlight and summarize some of the important points in this article. It should be noted, however, that when media sources quote Zillow, I always tell my clients to take Zillow with a grain of salt. […]
Seeds of a St. Petersburg Housing Shortage
The latest edition of REALTOR magazine just arrived, and I found an article by the chief economist of the National Association of Realtors, Lawrence Yun, quite interesting. The article says that “the inventory of existing homes is at its lowest level in 7 years, while newly constructed home inventory has also hit a 50-year low […]
Is the Housing Market Better Off than 4 Years Ago?
Republicans and Democrats are taking sides about whether we are better off than they were four years ago – and who gets the blame or the credit. To help voters cut through the election spin, we checked in with Trulia, who had some facts on the housing market, comparing today with January 2009, when Obama […]
10 Homes and $1,834,900 Worth of Tampa Bay Real Estate Sold in September!
This time last year, my average number of closings was 2 or 3 a month. If I had 4, it was a really great month. In July of this year, I had 7 closings, and I thought to myself, wow, things are really getting crazy in our real estate market. Now, in the month of […]
New Construction Home Stats Up 24.5% From 2011
According to Inman News, housing starts picked up 2.3 percent from July to August and were up 24.5 percent from August 2011, according to the latest numbers from the Census Bureau. Builders started construction on new homes and apartment units during August at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 750,000, up from 733,000 in June […]