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…Original Article


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…
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.
Tampa and Miami have continued to top other metro areas across the country in home-price increases, according to an analysis released Tuesday. The Tampa area had a 35% price increase in June when compared to a year earlier, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index. Tampa was followed by the Miami area at 33% and Dallas at 28.2%. Tampa and Miami also led other metro areas in April and May. They were the only areas of Florida included in the 20-market analysis.…
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