Archive for November, 2006

One of the most important revelations of a home inspection I attended yesterday was that the home, built in the 1940’s, still has some live knob and tube wiring. Why was this important? Well, my client will be unable to obtain basic homeowners insurance on this home as long as this old wiring is still [...]

I recently had a prospective client ask me to list his home for sale. During our initial conversation he noted that his mother had recently passed away in the home and that she was discovered by a visiting relative.
Sellers are required to disclose anything that will materially affect the value of the real property. So [...]

The Southeast Seminole Heights Civic Association is sponsoring their third annual “Homes For The Holidays” home and garden tour on Sunday December 3rd. Southeast Seminole Heights is bounded by I-275 to the west, 15th St to the east, Hillsborough Ave to the north and MLK Blvd to the south. Eleven homes will be featured on [...]

For the third quarter of 2006, sales of existing single family homes were down by 34% as compared to Q3 of 2005. Furthermore, the median price statewide remained about the same as it was for the third quarter of 2005.
However, the median price of a Florida condo did decline by 3% with sales down by [...]

The amount of available residential listings in Tampa continues to remain steady, a trend that began back in early October of 2006. Since April, the listings inventory had been on a fairly rapid climb, while the number of listings going under contract had been falling.
These numbers began to stabilize in early October and have remained [...]