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In March of 2006 the home sales in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater were taking a plunge of 26 percent. During that time, Ocala, Tallahassee, Gainesville and Jacksonville were still on an upward rise of home sales. However, those cities couldn't keep themselves from the drop of the housing mark [Read More]

Sheryl Crow is coming to Ruth Eckerd Hall tonight, April 29, 2008. The show starts at 8:00 p.m. at Ruth Eckerd Hall, 1111 McMullen-Booth Road, Clearwater, Fl. Ticket prices range from $46-$60.50. For more information please call (727) 791-7400.

Cinco De Mayo Zombie Pub Crawl starts at the Dirty Shame and continues on to other bars like the Reservoir and the Crow Bar, The Zombie hordes will be taking to the streets on Ybor City starting at 5:00 p.m. Ticket prices are $6.00. For more info please visit www.myspace.com/deaditeempire.

Mary Babinetz has run ads in the newspaper and held six open houses before she listed her South Tampa condo in the home-swapping section of Craigslist. She’s looking for a three-bedroom, two-bath house priced at around $250,000 in New Tampa or Temple Terrace area and she would ta [Read More]

Early Cinco de Mayo festivities at the Grand Central District's monthly 4th Friday party on April 25, 2008 from 5 until 9 pm. The shops in the 2000 and 2100 blocks are the central of the happenings. In Grand Central style, merchants will offer food and beverages to make your browsing even more fun. [Read More]

Now that the housing slump is in its third year, many buyers are reluctant to take a chance on real estate with the continuing price declines, foreclosures, record gas prices, job losses, and general economic uncertainty. But the news isn't all bad for buyers. In fact, for some the timing couldn't [Read More]

A government report on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 stated that home building projects that were started in March of 2008 fell by 11.9 percent to a lower-than-expected annual rate while building permit activity, was off 5.8 percent. The Commerce Department said that the housing starts set an annual p [Read More]

Real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 that home foreclosure filings rose 57 percent in the 12 month-period ending in March, 2008 and that bank repossessions rose to 129 percent from a year ago, as homeowners struggle to make mortgage payments. For the month of March, for [Read More]

At the new community of Seapine Estates, in Egg Harbor Township, NJ, the Pennsylvania builder went bankrupt last summer and ceasing work, leaving open foundations and unfinished homes. This has left the community wide open to invite outsiders in to dump trash, spray graffiti and race cars up and do [Read More]

A research report showed Tuesday, March 15, 2008 that although the bank repossessions went sky high last month it has yet to reach a stopping point as many troubled homeowners have given up and left their homes. The amount of adjustable-rate loans changing to higher rates will peak in May and June [Read More]