NEW PORT RICHEY -- Sales of existing homes rose in May, edging slightly above the number sold a year ago as the Pasco housing market continues to rebound. ...more

June 10, 2008

Despite the bursting of the housing bubble, it's still possible to buy homes with no money down. In fact, it's possible to borrow up to 105 percent of the purchase price, leaving the buyer with more debt than the house is worth. ...more

June 10, 2008

Ready to hear something positive about the real estate market? Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate officials say the company is selling one of every three homes it has listed within the first 30 days. ...more

June 8, 2008

Lennar's national "Let's Get America Moving" campaign, with its special pricing and low-interest mortgage option, was initiated as a way to provide home buyers with the opportunity to own a new home with low payments. On May 3, the company took that concept a step further with its Super Saturday Sale, says Jassy Friddle, marketing manager with Lennar Tampa. ...more

May 20, 2008

David Weekley Homes is pre-selling in Kensington, a gated community in Pinellas County, giving prospective buyers a chance to enjoy the builder's signature "healthy home" standards. ...more

May 11, 2008

Wondering where the real estate market is going? Clark W. Toole III, president and chief operating officer of Sarasota-based Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, thinks Florida is poised for a recovery. ...more

February 17, 2008

A comment heard on the radio aroused a compelling response. The caller said that both parties contributed to the serious crisis facing the country today, and contributed to the enormous $9 trillion national debt, and severe Social Security, Medicare-Medicaid crises. It is ironic that the caller cited the last 40-50 years. Consider this. It took 200 years (1787 to 1980) for the national debt to reach $1 trillion. It took 27 years for it to balloon to $9 trillion (1980 to 2007). Ergo: $6 trillion (1980-1992); +$2 trillion (1992-2001); -$5 trillion (2001 to 2007). Total: $9 trillion. So, who was in charge during those years? Who caused the $7 trillion hit on the economy in 2000? Who provided the prescription drug bill that was to cost $400 billion, but ballooned to $1 trillion and caused health care cost to increase 10 to 15 percent each year? Who allowed the corporations to duck their obligations for pensions all across this country? Who sat by while the banks and mortgage corporations manipulated the hapless home buyers to sign those sub-prime mortgages? As an immediate first step to resolve the crisis, who bought $2 millions of those egregious loans, then reduced interest rates for the banks and mortgagors, but left those hapless mortgagees swinging in the wind? Who is being held accountable? Where are those trillions and trillions of dollars? The answers? Corporations and our government! ...more

February 2, 2008

The rumblings of the real estate market might make some people wary about buying a home. Engle Homes officials say don't be. ...more

January 27, 2008

An interesting feature in the online New York Times shows you "What you get for $850,000" or some other amount that seems, in a New York sense anyway, plausible for wealthy second-home buyers. Illustrations of these delicious-looking homes are accompanied by their taxes. A recent article listed taxes on an $850,000 home in Tennessee at $1,891; in Idaho, at $2,638; and in Arizona, at $2,332. ...more

January 13, 2008

You may think the holiday sales are done, but Inland Homes still is offering home buyers a deal. ...more

January 6, 2008