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A penthouse unit in the Vinoy Place in downtown St. Petersburg has sold for $4 million, the highest price ever paid for a condominium within that property. Unit 1304 in Tower 4 sold for more than $750 per square foot in a deal that closed last week, the Gunn-Swainston Group of Premier Sotheby's International Realty St. Petersburg office said Wednesday. The list price was $4.5 million, or $840 per square foot. Vinoy Place was built in 2002. Within the penthouse's 5,300 square feet, there are…

Amazon is quietly building a significant base of influence in the nation’s capital, cracking the top 20 lobbying spenders last year, increasing its political donations, and selling more than a billion dollars’ worth of cloud services to the federal government.

Home values are appreciating more rapidly in the Buffalo area than in a majority of the nation’s markets, according to a new breakdown of statistics from Zillow, the real-estate website and data-collection firm. Business First analyzed Zillow’s estimated home values for America’s 60 largest metropolitan areas between August 2010 and the same month this year. Buffalo ranks 27th with a seven-year gain of 29.1 percent in the value of the typical home. Click on the View Slideshow button for a…

Homebuyers moving out of state are heading south, with Florida the No. 2 most-popular destination, a new study from LendingTree shows. LendingTree says it reviewed purchase mortgage loan requests for primary residences in all 50 states in the last year — from October 2016 through October 2017 — to find the percentage of all requests from residents looking to move outside of their current state. The results reveal the most popular new destination for each state along with the percentage of…

The team gave Waiters a $52 million contract this summer.