A nearly five percent decline is reported, with 17,012 Tampa households receiving notices. ...more

October 28, 2009

Local and national home prices rose in August, marking the third consecutive month of increases and adding to building signs of stabilization, according to S&P/Case-Shiller's U.S. National Home Price Index released Tuesday. ...more

October 28, 2009

Bay area home prices continued to fall in January, posting a 23.3 percent yearly decline, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index, released Tuesday. ...more

April 1, 2009

All 20 areas tracked across the country showed a decline. Miami, the only other Florida city tracked, dropped 29 percent. ...more

March 31, 2009

Moratorium Magic In the first wave of development in Florida, there was too much water so the Army Corp of Engineers dug canals to drain land. Now there is too little water to support development in many suburban areas, so the Legislature is considering Senate Bill 2424, which would essentially give the state control of water distribution and price. In other words, the state could divert water from rural areas to provide continued development in metro areas like Tampa and St. Pete. ...more

March 31, 2009

Highlands County's population grew by 1 percent in a year, which surpassed the statewide average of 0.7 percent, according to the latest U.S. Census estimates. ...more

March 23, 2009

Six of seven counties in the Tampa Bay area saw population increases from July 1, 2007, to July 1, 2008, census data released this week show. Pinellas County's population, meanwhile, declined for the fourth year in a row. ...more

March 19, 2009

When will this wretched economy bottom out? The recession is already in its 15th month. For now, everything seems to be getting worse: The Dow is in free-fall, jobs are vanishing every day, and one in eight American homeowners is in foreclosure or behind on payments. ...more

March 15, 2009

The Sunshine State had the fourth-highest foreclosure rate among all states in February, and the Tampa Bay area ranked 28th among the country's metro areas for its filings, according to California-based RealtyTrac. ...more

March 12, 2009

You may not know it to look at them, but urban planners are human and have dreams. One dream many share is that Americans will give up their love affair with suburban sprawl and will rediscover denser, more environmentally friendly, less auto-dependent ways of living. ...more

February 21, 2009