The price of homes in the Tampa Bay area continues to soar
Saturday, 26 November 2016
Tampa Bay home prices continued to soar in October, with Hillsborough County recording its biggest year-over-year gain since January. Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties also showed dramatic increases as buyers vied for an exceedingly tight supply of single-family homes — Pasco had less than a three-month inventory. And even though interest rates have risen slightly
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Tampa International Airport hopes to add service to Dublin, Amsterdam, Bogota, Mexico City, Portland, Salt Lake City
Monday, 14 November 2016
Tampa International Airport has its sights set on securing new flights to Europe, Latin America and the western United States. The Hillsborough County Aviation Authority voted unanimously to update and extend the airport’s incentive program, which is used to help lure new airlines and routes. As part of the presentation given to the aviation authority
Why Bill Gates And Jeff Vinik Are Investing Billions To Build An Ecosystem In Tampa
Thursday, 10 November 2016
Ten years ago, Jeff Vinik retired from Fidelity Investments after managing their high profile Magellan Fund. Worth an estimated half a billion, it’s safe to say Vinik can live wherever he wants, and do almost anything he wants, or nothing at all. Instead, Vinik is using his millions to reinvent himself and the city of
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See inside a $7.75M waterfront mansion in Tampa, the second most expensive listing in the city
Thursday, 06 October 2016
By: Ashley Gurbal Kritzer, Senior Reporter |Tampa Bay Business Journal A nearly $8 million mansion on the Westshore waterfront hit the market quietly in early July, and there’s already been so much activity on the property that the listing agent thinks it could sell within six months. The house, at 4942 Saint Croix Drive, was
U.S. home flipping increases to a six-year high in Q2 2016
Thursday, 06 October 2016
ATTOM Data Solutions, the new parent company of RealtyTrac, has released its Q2 2016 U.S. Home Flipping Report, which shows a total of 51,434 U.S. single family home and condo sales were completed flips in the second quarter of 2016, up 14 percent from the previous quarter and up 3 percent from a year ago
Home prices rise again around Tampa Bay as supply remains tight
Thursday, 25 August 2016
By: Susan Taylor Martin, Tampa Bay Times The median price for a single-family house jumped 12.6 percent in July, the ninth straight month of double-digit, year-over-year increases. The steady rise continued to be spurred by a tight supply of available homes, with 4.3 percent fewer houses sold in July than in the same month a
New-home sales climb to highest level in nine years
Thursday, 25 August 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) – Aug. 23, 2016 – Americans stepped up their purchases of new homes in July to the fastest pace in nearly nine years, as low mortgage rates and a steady job market are fueling a real estate surge. New-home sales jumped 12.4 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted rate of 654,000 annual units,
2016’s Most Pet-Friendly Cities
Tuesday, 16 August 2016
By Richie Bernardo | WalletHub To many of us, pets are family — only furrier and slimier. It’s only natural, then, to seek out the places where these relatives of ours can enjoy the best quality of life. According to an American Pet Products Association survey, a record 65 percent, or 79.7 million, American households today
10 Cities Americans Are Moving To Right Now (And 10 They Are Leaving)
Monday, 13 June 2016
Whether for professional or personal reasons, people sometimes pick up and move. In the United States, folks have been migrating to urban areas in recent generations, but these days the places they wind up are not necessarily the major hubs we might expect. Recently, real estate information platform, Realtor.com, completed a study on where people
Publix pushes its way into the Fortune 100
Tuesday, 07 June 2016
The business strength of the Tampa Bay region is getting some validation from the newly released Fortune 500 list for 2016. Tampa Bay now has five companies on the list, up from four in 2015, including a company that ranks among the 100 leading firms nationwide in what Fortune says is its key benchmark for