St. Pete zooms in on missing middle housing
Leading housing and finance experts gathered last week in downtown St. Petersburg to discuss local opportunities and barriers for missing middle housing, aka gentle density housing like accessory dwelling units, duplexes and triplexes. The city of St. Petersburg is already taking steps to address the issue. In 2019, city council approved the creation of a neighborhood traditional mixed residential zoning category, which allowed for the development of missing middle housing in certain neighborhoods…
Tracking the housing impact of households moving from pricey coastal markets to boom cities
Several metropolitan areas across the United States are seeing a radical shift in their housing landscapes because of relocations from higher-cost markets.
Denver’s condo queen is moving to St. Pete to help reshape national condo policy
Lori Greenly, the founder of Denver High-Rise Living who is known in The Mile High City as the “condo queen,” is moving to St. Petersburg to help evolve accountable condominium policies throughout the U.S. When Surfside’s Champlain Towers South condominium collapsed last summer and killed 98 people, Florida lawmakers responded by creating legislation that would strengthen what’s required of condominium associations, from having enough cash in their reserves to fund repairs to property inspections. It’s…
Exclusive: Tampa developer to build 3,000-home master-planned community in Manatee
A Tampa developer has started construction on a 3,000-home master-planned community in Manatee County. Seaire, as the project has been dubbed, is less than 2 miles east of Interstate 75 on Moccasin Wallow Road in Parrish. One of Metro Development Group's signature man-made lagoons will anchor the 600-acre community. Model homes and a community welcome center will open in 2023, Metro Development Group said. Seaire will open with four builders: Lennar, Biscayne Homes, D.R. Horton and Jacksonville-based…
Over 6,000 new apartments coming to Tampa Bay by year’s end
Developers are expected to deliver more apartment units to the Tampa Bay area in 2022 than they have in the past five years, according to a recent report from RentCafe.com. Tampa Bay has 6,092 new apartments expected to hit the market by the end of this year, according to the apartment listing website run by Santa Barbara-based property technology company Yardi. The Tampa Bay metro ranked No. 20 for the number of projected deliveries nationwide, behind Minneapolis (6,266 units) and San Francisco…
How Covid-19 migration, housing trends will remake the suburbs
Migration and suburbanization trends observed since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic are closely tied to housing, as households seek inventory and affordability and, perhaps, have new priorities since the pandemic.