Pasco sellers are the big winners in April as Tampa Bay home prices keep rising


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Sales down; prices up. That in a nutshell described the real estate market in Tampa Bay and a few other parts of Florida in April as once again there were too many buyers and too few available homes. “Pent-up demand continues to put upward pressure on prices,’’ said Christine Hansen, president of Florida Realtors. “In April, sellers continued to get…

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Another surge in Tampa Bay home prices as sales volume sags

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Tampa Bay home sales tumbled in March, once again pushing up prices. Hillsborough County saw the biggest decline in single-family sales, which plunged nearly 9 percent. Hernando had the biggest gain in prices, up more than 17 percent. The Tampa Bay results parallel those statewide as a shortage of homes for sale is creating a “cycle of frustration” for buyers,…

Hurricane Irma hurt some Tampa Bay home sales even in October

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Pinellas County home sales took another hurricane-related hit in October as the rest of the Tampa Bay area bounced back from Hurricane Irma. But while prices in all four counties rose once again, the rate of increase continues to slow. Hillsborough’s 3.6 percent increase was the lowest in more than two years although the county recorded the second highest price…

Sizzling home sales in Tampa Bay cool down, but bank-owned houses still fetch big bucks

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Could those dramatic gains in Tampa Bay home prices really be slowing down? July sales figures hint that the long-running sellers’ market might be shifting more in favor of buyers. In Hillsborough County, where the median price of a house hit $240,000 in July, it was the third straight month in which prices rose by just a single digit from…

Tampa Bay home prices still climbing, though more slowly

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Tampa Bay home prices rose again in June, although the once-torrid pace of increases shows signs of slowing. For the first time in several months, year-over-year price gains were in the single digits in two of the bay’s area’s four counties. The change was particularly striking in Pasco, where the median price for a house in June — $202,995 —…