Why Tampa Bay Real Estate Agents are SO Fussy About Mortgage Preapproval Letters
Tampa Bay Real Estate Agents and Pinellas Realtors® like us that are producing results in this market understand how the rules of the game have changed for 2012 and why savvy home sellers and their agents are SO darned fussy about mortgage pre-approval letters lately. If you will be in the market for a home…Read More »
Find a Pinellas Realtor and Marketing Agent Instead of an Ordinary Listing Agent. Here’s How.
If you need to find a Pinellas Realtor to sell your home, there are over 5,000 to choose from. The majority of those agents aren’t working in the business full time – or at all. About half of those left are Pinellas Realtors that don’t regularly list and sell homes (they prefer the ease of…Read More »
Pinellas Real Estate Statistics from Your Number Crunching Pinellas Realtors!
The Pinellas real estate results are in for 2010 and these Pinellas Realtors are still crunching numbers to make sense of this incredible market. Admittedly, doing so is about as fun as scrubbing a toilet. Yet the results are a LOT more exciting than having a tidy bowl. Pinellas Realtors Revealing 2010 Statistic Ah-Ha’s Pinellas short sales and foreclosures accounted…Read More »
Pinellas Waterfront Homes For Sale and Surprising Statistics
There are 156 North Pinellas County waterfront homes for sale on the gulf or on canals leading to it with prices from $202,000 to $5.9M (with 1/3 over $1M). This may be surprising, though these Pinellas Realtors are holding steadfast with their prediction from 2009 that ‘entry level’ Pinellas waterfront homes were holding their own when…Read More »
Why The Realtor You Hire Can Make or Break Your Dreams
There are plenty of Pinellas Realtors® to choose from. There are 12,498 homes for sale in Pinellas County on the MLS. And the Pinellas real estate agent you hire can make or break your dreams. Would you take a plane ride with a pilot without formal training? Or worse, what if he was distracted and Tweeting and texting in the…Read More »
Pinellas Realtors on What Buyers Really Want
Pinellas County home values have declined. Sorry Mr. Seller. On the upside, there are 11,739 homes for sale in the Pinellas MLS. In May, 1,289 of them sold. That translates to an 11% absorption rate which is fantastic news for sellers in that homes marketed effectively and priced right ARE selling faster than they have in years. But (everything…Read More »
Top 4 Dangers in Buying Foreclosure Homes for Sale in Pinellas County
Buying foreclosure homes for sale in Pinellas County isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. As Pinellas Realtors we strive to make the buying experience a ridiculously happy one, yet buying foreclosures can be gut-wrenching. Watch out for these …. Top 4 Dangers in Buying Foreclosure Homes for Sale In Pinellas County We might not close. …Read More »
Homes for Sale In Pinellas: The Numbers Are Up
About 40% of the homes for sale in Pinellas County are being sold for cash. And half of those sales are to investors. Pinellas MLS statistics indicate that home sales are up 38.3% over this time last year. WOW! I just enjoyed a Business Week article by Prashant Gopal. In it, she (or help me Peach readers is that a…Read More »
FHA Loans for Pinellas Home Buyers
If you’re looking to finance a Pinellas short sale or Pinellas foreclosure and have 3.5% for a down payment, then an FHA loan is your ticket to home ownership. The FHA is not a lender, nor do they set interest rates. The Federal Housing Administration is a federal government agency (a division of the U.S. Department of…Read More »
First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit for Pinellas Real Estate: The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was the heavily debated economic stimulus package that was signed into law in February of 2009. The home buyer tax credit is a component of this package and was created to promote home ownership. The bill originally provided for an $8,000 tax credit available to first-time home buyers for the…Read More »
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