Tampa’s housing market great for flippers, report says

In the market to flip some homes? Tampa’s a great place to be for that.

A new report from RealtyTrac found that among 101 markets with at least 75 single family and condo flips in the third quarter of 2015, Tampa had the fourth-highest share of home flipping, equaling about 9 percent of sales.

In particular, 25.2 percent of the home sales in the ZIP code 33610 in Tampa were home-flipping sales. The 33610 ZIP code is roughly bordered by 15th Street on the west, MLK Jr. Drive on the south, Sligh… …read more