Gated townhome community planned for downtown St. Petersburg


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A veteran Tampa developer is planning a gated townhome community a block and a half from bustling Beach Drive in downtown St. Petersburg. Called Regent Lane, the 20 homes at 141 Fourth Ave. N each will have three bedrooms, three and a half baths, a private elevator, roof deck and two-car garage. Prices for the four-story, 2,335-square-foot homes will be…

House flipping still paying off in Tampa Bay, though inventory shrinking

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Last fall, Tampa-based Badger Investments paid $86,100 for a bank-owned house in St. Petersburg that was showing its age. Out went the wall-to-wall carpeting and the window air conditioner. In came granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. Badger put the house back on the market and sold it in May for $149,000 — a 73 percent gross profit. But those…

New York style brownstones planned for downtown St. Petersburg

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Five high-end, New York-style brownstones are now planned for the downtown St. Petersburg site where a 16-story luxury condo tower once was proposed. Frank Menna, who owns the vacant lot on First Street N and Fourth Avenue, said Wednesday that the new project is a joint venture with hotel and restaurant owner Steve Gianfilippo. “I had the high-rise thing going…

Tampa Bay homes sales soared in June

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Tampa Bay home sales skyrocketed in June, making it the strongest month in the past year. Year-over-year sales of single-family homes — which make up the bulk of the residential real estate market — soared 31.7 percent in Pasco County, 29.5 percent in Pinellas and 27.4 percent in Hillsborough.

Why some Tampa Bay homes sit on the market for years

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As nearby properties changed hands, the Odessa house sat unsold through two presidential elections, a recession, a recovery and enough celebrity gossip to fill seven years of People magazine. Finally, after 2,552 days with no buyer in sight, the listing expired in January. “It’s a very pretty house,” real estate agent Robert Romano said, “but I’m letting it sleep for…

Tampa area home sales, median prices rose in February

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TAMPA — Home sales in the Tampa Bay metro area and the median price for those homes were both up in February, with fewer homeowners under water on their mortgages, new reports show. Home sales in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metropolitan statistical area went up 28.6 percent in February compared to 2014 and the median home price in February was $154,000,…