Report: Tampa Bay’s home prices rose in August as inventory fell

Home prices in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro area have increased over the past year at the same time that the area's inventory has fallen. For August 2020, Tampa Bay’s home value index, a monthly measure of home values in various metros, hit $242,924, according to data from Zillow. That is a 7.2 percent year-over-year growth in home value from August 2019. In the same span, Tampa Bay’s inventory fell by almost 32 percent. Those numbers give the Tampa metro the ninth largest home…Original Article