Tampa Real Estate Blog

Hot off the press from David Hoyt of Advantage Mortgage! Dave reports that both Fannie and Freddie have announced that they will re-instate 95% owner occupied loans for the Tampa Bay area. The declining markets had caused them to reduce their maximum loan to values 5% for all loans, effectively making 90% the [...]

Over 250 students in high school in Hillsborough County have GPAs over 6.0. The Hillsborough School System encourages high grades by allowing AP courses and extra classes to students who qualify. In fact two students graduated this 2008 year with 8.0+ GPA. Sherry Chao was at the top of her class at [...]

First of all short sales are not a game and they aren’t short either. Let’s get that out of the way right off the bat! As a real estate agent, whether you are involved in listing a home as a short sale or working with a buyer who wants to snatch a good [...]

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Almost seems to good to be true, doesn’t it? Today more and more people are getting down about their homes not selling. What can you do to help? Here’s a few tips that are essential in a tough market and great ideas in any market.
1. Buyers have tons of choices. [...]

Hi everyone, this is Donna posting, Bob’s wife. Ryan Ward, my favorite Atlanta Realtor tagged me from his blog so my it’s my turn to tag him and then tag 7 other people. But before I do that I need to tell you 7 things about myself. Not sure anyone really [...]

I found two new ways to save paper today. One has to do with phone books and the other has to do with airline ticket jackets. First and more importantly, who uses paper phone books anymore? Not too many people actually look up a number anymore - there are many electronic ways [...]

Sounds to good to be true but I believe him. Ashley Morgan with UpstartBlogger is really going to give away a free blog. Not just any blog but a 5 character domain name blog. Go find out how, that’s what I did. And, good luck!

For the first 8 weeks of the year the number of “new” listings put on the market declined. That’s great news. Getting the inventory down will help sales increase. Early in the year there were almost 2000 fewer single family home listings put on the market than the year before for the [...]

James Thorner, we are sick of negative articles about the real estate market. I think your article in the St. Petersburg Times on April 30 is just a little too dramatic. We all know that Tampa Bay area home prices are back to 2005 prices. That’s nothing new. And, except for [...]