Prospective home buyers would do well to check out Centex Homes Winter Savings Event, says Brett Lundequam, president of the company's Florida division. ...more

March 1, 2009

In 2008, Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate's Luxury and International Properties captured 20 percent of market share of the luxury market in the Tampa Bay area, according to Multiple Listing Service data. Now, the company is looking to increase that market share with Coldwell Banker Previews International, an effort designed for marketing luxury residential properties to affluent buyers worldwide. ...more

February 15, 2009

With tightened credit markets strangling the supply of home loans, a growing number of buyers in the Tampa Bay area have turned for help to an obscure program run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. ...more

February 6, 2009

Starting early next year, Pasco County will offer $20 million in down payment help to prospective home buyers, part of a push to put people into the foreclosed and abandoned homes that riddle the county. ...more

October 22, 2008

Starting early next year, Pasco County will offer $20 million in down payment help to prospective home buyers – part of a push to put people back into the foreclosed and abandoned homes that riddle the county. County commissioners today effectively rewrote a proposal by the county's Community Development office for spending $19.5 million in federal housing money aimed at addressing the national housing crisis. The county will add $6 million of its own housing money to increase the federal funding's reach. The proposal original presented to commissioners would have spent $16.3 million on buying and rehabbing run-down homes to make them sellable. Another $4 million was put into helping low- and moderate-income people get mortgages. ...more

October 21, 2008

Lennar officials are confident prospective home buyers will like what they see at South Fork in Riverview. ...more

November 9, 2007

The recent correction in the real estate market may have scared off investors who were looking to make a quick profit, but it has been a boon to home buyers in the Tampa Bay area, according to Bob Glaser, president of Smith & Associates Real Estate. ...more

September 9, 2007