Report: Tampa among top cities where renters are looking to move
A recent report from Apartment List, a San Francisco-based online rental marketplace, shows cities where the most users are looking for apartments, and Tampa ranked among the top. The report, which is based on Apartment List user searches between June 1, 2019 and Dec. 31, 2019, found Tampa was the fourth most searched city. Forty-four percent of metro searches, tracked by users' IP addresses or the user’s listed location, were for apartments in Tampa. Denver, Baltimore and San Diego were the…Original Article
A recent report from LendingTree ranked the top 50 most populous cities in the U.S. based on how popular they are with millennial homebuyers and Tampa ranked last. The ranking is based on the percentage of millennial homebuyers, aged 23 to 38, compared to the percentage of total purchase requests between January 2019 and November 2019. Tampa ranked as the least popular city for millennial homebuyers with 40.3 percent of purchase requests from millennials. That percentage ties Las Vegas, but Tampa…
A recent report from ATTOM Data Solutions, a California-based data company, found it is better to buy than rent in six out of Tampa Bay’s seven counties. In all of Tampa Bay’s counties, except Manatee, buying a home was a better option, according to the report, which looked at renting and home affordability in 855 counties across the U.S. In Hillsborough County, an average three-bedroom rental property costs $1,687 a month, while the average weekly wage is $1,040. Meaning a resident would…
A recent report from Realtor.com found Tampa Bay’s active listings dropped over 15 percent between 2018 and 2019, while the area’s median home prices and days on market rose. The report evaluated the nation’s 50 largest metros on their active listing count, median home prices and median days on market from December 2018 to December 2019. In that span, Tampa’s active listings dropped 16.5 percent, while its median listing price rose 4 percent and the median days on the market for homes…