TAMPA - Real estate agent Tony Rojas loves his job. But there's one thing that drives him crazy: unrealistic sellers who insist on asking buyers to pay boom-year sales prices despite profound drops in area home values. ...more

January 22, 2008

The real estate market is ringing in the New Year on its sourest note yet. ...more

December 31, 2007

Amid the bleak housing market news is a bit of good fortune for the Tampa Bay metro area: Sales of existing homes here far outpaced those in the state's other metro areas during the first 10 months of 2007, the Florida Association of Realtors reports. ...more

December 29, 2007

"We don't want to be another L.A." Over the past couple of decades, this has been the battle cry you'd hear from ardent transit supporters, weary commuters and advocates of better transportation planning in Central Florida. And it's true that we don't want poor air quality, which is typically caused by vehicle emissions and the associated problems from a community that is build around the automobile like Los Angeles. But like the Santa Ana winds that are known for igniting brush fires in Southern California, it appears that another mode of transportation is catching fire in L.A.: light rail. ...more

December 27, 2007

Rising foreclosures will lead to billions of dollars in lost economic activity next year in the nation's major metropolitan areas, but homeowners and financial institutions have the ability to work together to contain the effects, according to a report compiled for the U.S. Conference of Mayors. ...more

November 28, 2007

Southwest Georgia is one of the most productive agricultural regions in Dixie, but you wouldn't know it from the soil under the corn, peanuts and cotton. It can be sandy, pebbly, and doesn't hold water very well. ...more

November 15, 2007

The survey released Wednesday was clear: The Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area is the second most caffeinated metro area in the United States. Only Chicago ingests more. ...more

November 8, 2007

Commuters in the Tampa Bay area spend the equivalent of a full week of work stuck in traffic on their way to and from their jobs each year, a new study says. ...more

September 19, 2007