Tampa & Beyond Real Estate Blog

Here is the FHFA pricing year- over year. What we can see overall is that the vast majority of this map is green. That means we are seeing positive, and in some cases very strong price appreciation. It is median prices but it’s price appreciation. The FHFA only deals with loans Fannie Mae and Fre...

Keep the Momentum Going! John Burns Consulting, a great consulting firm in real estate: As the housing market starts to show recovery and we’re past the beginning stages of that from the sales part, and as it starts to show it in pricing there are more and more people sitting there saying what am...

We are in the middle of recovery; big time recovery. People are starting to feel pretty confident that the American economy, of nothing else, is stabilizing so they are not as worried. It they are not as worried then they are more apt to make a decision to buy. The market is definitely showing a...

S&P Case-Shriller Home Price Index: The Case-Shriller Home Price Index gives us national understanding of where the numbers are. And we can see that the prices start going up. That is important. Prices right now no matter what index you are looking looking at are going up. But there is seasonalit...

Housing Recovery Strengthening Here are the most recent reports on existing homes sales, pending sales, and new construction sales. We can see the existing home sales, are up 10.4 percent over the same month last year and prices are up 9.4 percent. Pending sales, the sales going under contract, a...

Housing Facts! Here is the quarterly report from NAR that compared the second quarter of 2011 to the second quarter of 2012. So what we they are talking about is April, May, and June of 2011 compared to April, May, and June of 2012. Median home priced are up 7.3 percent! And those prices rose in ...

Pending Home Sales Report The pending home sales report, houses that go under contract, is still creating a tidal wave! As a matter of fact, the numbers that were hit this month you have to go all the way back until 2010 to see those numbers. And remember what was happening in the spring of 2012?...

  The Existing Sales Report: This is pretty interesting, more than 12,000 houses sell every single day in this country, and people are getting mortgages. Almost 9,000 people a day get a  mortgage! Everyone needs to understand two things houses are selling in a big way, but also people are getting...

New Homes- New Community in Tampa Bay! I am a Florida native. South Florida is in my blood. Tampa Bay has been my family’s chosen home for seven years now. For about six of those seven years I’ve been anxiously awaiting the “New Newland Community’” to arrive. I live in the Newland Community of Mi...

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