Florida buyers continued to snatch up heavily discounted homes in the third quarter, marking the fifth consecutive quarter that sales increased. ...more

November 11, 2009

Home prices fell in nearly nine out of every 10 U.S. cities in the fourth quarter of last year as low-cost foreclosures flooded the market and the housing market's decline spread nationwide. ...more

February 13, 2009

Area home sales are still dropping, but not as much they have in months past, according to data released today by the Florida Association of Realtors. There were 2,087 sales by Realtors in April, down 8 percent from 2,257 during the same month last year. That's better than March, when 1,107 homes were sold in the Tampa-St.Petersburg-Clearwater area, down 11 percent from March 2007. ...more

May 23, 2008

The Tampa Bay area is months away from the bottom of the downturn in the single family housing market, and prices aren't expected to fall further, a well-known Florida economist said Tuesday. ...more

February 6, 2008

In the face of rising inventories of vacant homes and declining orders for new ones, Tampa Bay homebuilders slashed construction 59 percent in 2007, according to preliminary data released Thursday by Metrostudy, a Houston-based housing research firm. ...more

January 18, 2008

With each passing month, it gets tougher to sell homes in the Tampa Bay area, as median sales prices keep slipping and buyers remain skittish. The pressure of making a buck in the industry appears to be leading some local real estate agents to drop out of the business. ...more

January 17, 2008