1 in 4 Florida Homeowners with mortgage is ‘Equity Rich’
Thursday, 08 December 2016
1 in 4 Fla. owners with mortgage is ‘equity rich’ IRVINE, Calif. – Nov. 17, 2016 – ATTOM Data Solutions’ Q3 2016 U.S. Home Equity and Underwater Report finds that 23.4 percent of U.S. homeowners with a mortgage are equity rich, meaning their loan-to-value ratio is 50 percent or lower. It’s a year-to-year increase of
The ‘Great News’ about rising prices
Sunday, 04 December 2016
Recently there has been a lot of talk about home prices and if they are accelerating too quickly. In some areas of the country, seller supply (homes for sale) cannot keep up with the number of buyers out looking for a home, which has caused prices to rise. The great news about rising prices, however,
Freddie Mac planning appraisal free mortgages
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
WASHINGTON – Nov. 14, 2016 – Can computers, big data and advanced analytics replace real live humans when it comes to accurately valuing the home you want to buy? One of the two largest financial players in U.S. real estate thinks so and is preparing to introduce changes that could prove momentous – and highly
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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