Report: Majority of Tampa residents are looking at homes and apartments in local metro area
A recent report from Zillow found that a majority of Tampa users are looking for homes and apartments within the metro area. Based on the Seattle real estate company’s numbers, 61.9 percent of home searches by locals were for homes in Tampa. Other top metros for internal searches were St. Louis with 74 percent, Detroit at 69.1 percent and Jacksonville at 67.3 percent. If Tampa residents did look outside the metro, they predominantly looked within the state. The Miami, North Port/Sarasota and…Original Article
Real estate company Redfin recently identified MacFarlane, Plant City and Roser Park as three neighborhoods in the Tampa Bay area to watch in 2020. The Seattle-based broker identified neighborhoods to watch in the nation's largest metros based on their year-over-year growth in median listing page views between 2018 and 2019. To be considered, neighborhoods had to have at least 50 listings in both years and 20 median views per listing to make the list. The report also looked at the median sale…
Boomers today are actually less urban than previous generations of older people.
A recent report from Zillow found Tampa’s home inventory, a measure of its active listings, fell more than 10 percent in 2019. The report looked at the active listings, home values and average rent of the nation’s 35 largest metros, based on data from Zillow. Tampa had the 15th largest drop in active listings with 12.5 percent less homes on the market year-over-year. That is the largest drop in Florida, though Orlando saw a 10 percent decrease and Miami a 6.1 percent drop. Seattle, San…