Tampa & Beyond Real Estate Blog

Homeowners and Home buyers, today's map is Green and Red ... much different than yesterday's map. According to FHFA (Federal Housing and Finance Agency) Housing Prices have increased across most of the nation except for the Northeast. These numbers get drilled down further to reflect that Florida...

  Michele Herndon | Keller Williams Realty South Shore | (813) 523-9222 521 Winterside Dr, Apollo Beach, FL   3BR/2BA Single Family House   offered at $315,482 Year Built 2012 Sq Footage 1,803 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms 2 full, 0 partial Floors 1 Parking 3 Car garage Lot Size 5,000 sqft HOA/Maint $0 p...

What is the percentage year-over-year gain regarding price range? This is interesting, because if we take a look at it we can see that in every price range except for under $100,000 - probably because there is less and less houses under $100,000 for sale now as prices are creeping up a little bit...

  Some of the headlines the last couple of weeks might have been saying that pending sales fell and that headline is actually true. They did drop a little bit from a two year high the month before. What you want to see in the graph below is there is a build over the last two years, almost like a ...

Based on NAR’s existing home sales report for September, on average, 13,205 houses sell every single day in this country. It’s important that we let people know and we keep driving home to them that houses are selling and the numbers are pretty big. Now, you can break that down to your region. Or...

  Michele Herndon | Keller Williams Realty South Shore | (813) 523-9222 1401 Alhambra Dr, Apollo Beach, FL                 4BR/5+1BA Single Family House   offered at $674,900 Year Built 1994 Sq Footage 3,858 Bedrooms 4 Bathrooms 5 full, 1 partial Floors 2 Parking 2 Car garage Lot Size 8,320 sqft...

The federal government just came out with their own new guidelines on short sales that make short sales easier. Here are some quotes from people of prominence in the government. The FHFA Acting Director, Edward J. DeMarco, the person who runs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, “These new short sale guid...

We have talked about the National Mortgage Settlement. Twenty-six billion dollars was paid out or taken from the banks. The banks were penalized $26 billion to correct this situation that exist with foreclosures. So far of that $26 billion a little over $10 billion has been spent. Here’s how it’s...

Where is the highest foreclosure inventory? We have updated this from CoreLogic’s most recent foreclosure inventory report. And in the red sates, as we have told you before, is where the majority of pricing is going to get hit the hardest because that is where the majority of the highest foreclos...

We keep on saying that distressed properties are coming. Well where are these distressed properties? Thirty-seven percent of the homes already owned that Fannie Mae have already foreclosed on, they own them, but they are not yet on the market. How does that break down? Fourteen percent are in the...