The mixed-use district just south of Gandy and Westshore boulevards is bustling with construction activity — and there's more to come.Original Article
Condos in The Sanctuary at Alexandra Place will start at $2.3 million.Original Article
Home loans to people with scratches and dents in their credit histories dwindled to almost nothing in the aftermath of the crisis, as litigation-weary lenders retreated to patch up their balance sheets. But over the past couple of years a group of specialist firms has begun to bring the loans back, navigating a dense web of new rules drawn up to protect borrowers and investors in the $9.3 trillion U.S. home-loan market.Original Article
Facebook, in response to criticism over the last 17 months, has repeatedly promised that it would crack down on advertisers who use those tools to show housing or employment ads to whites only.Original Article
A new report by Black Knight Data & Analytics found that while the percentage of Florida’s 90-day mortgage delinquencies has fallen about .3 percent since December, the state again ranked highest in the category in February, suggesting Hurricane Irma’s impact continues to linger. Serious delinquencies in Florida spiked from 3.04 percent in November to 4.14 percent in December, but fell below four percent in January. February saw a modest 0.1 percent decline to 3.84 percent. Florida has ranked…Original Article
Practice is a boutique firm with an emphasis on urban projects, launched at a time when sprawling, car-centric Tampa is beginning to embrace urban spaces and walkable neighborhoods.Original Article
A developer whose portfolio includes two 50-plus story condo towers in Miami has joined the Riverwalk Place project in downtown Tampa. Two Roads Development, based in West Palm Beach, is now the residential developer in Riverwalk Place, the 53-story, mixed-use tower that will stack luxury condos on top of office space on the last developable parcel on the downtown waterfront, at Ashley Drive and Brorein Street. It is slated to include ground-floor restaurant retail space, seven stories of parking,…Original Article
In Menlo Park, Facebook is building a real community and testing the proposition: Do people love tech companies so much they will live inside them?Original Article
Renting is getting much more expensive in Tampa Bay cities. RENTCafe's February 2018 Apartment Market Report shows renters in St. Petersburg saw the 16th-highest year-over-year increase in average rent among the 250 cities included in the study. While St. Petersburg's increase of 7.1 percent was the highest in the region, all of the Tampa Bay cities included in the report showed an increase higher than the national average of 2.7 percent. The cities included are Tampa (5.2 percent), Lakeland (6.5…Original Article
Tampa is home to some of the best neighborhoods in the country, according to research and review site Niche. Three local neighborhoods ranked in the top 50 in the country in Niche's 2018 Best Places to Live in America report. Harbour Island was the highest-ranked local neighborhood, at No. 14, followed by Spanishtown at No. 27 and Courier City/Oscawana at No. 50. Niche uses a variety of sources, including federal and local government data, proprietary data and community reviews from each area.…Original Article