Archive for August, 2007

If you’ve been in Tampa for anytime, you’ve most likely seen the old black and white Gasparilla photos that many offices seem to have. Those photos, as well as thousands more, were shot by the Burgert brothers, Jean and Albert, in the early years of last century. The Burgert Brothers Photography Studio shot over 80,000 [...]

The juxtaposed headlines in today’s Tampa Tribune’s business section:
Fed Urges Mortgage Options and Fewer Buyers Seeking Home Loans
In the first article the Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke , is quoted as saying that having “a broader range of mortgage products which are appropriate for low and moderate-income borrowers, including those seeking to re-finance” might help the [...]

The Internet has obviously changed the way Realtors market homes and has changed the way home buyers search for homes as well. Buyers today are hungry for information at their desktops. Buyers, and the agents who represent them, want multiple photos, video, virtual tours, floor plans and other pertinent property information available online at the [...]

You gotta love automation, queries and databases. Anything to give us instant gratification with instant information. We recently installed a new service on our websites called “Market Snapshot”, that provides a look at listing and sales activity around any given address. It is connected to our local MLS, The Mid-Florida Regional MLS. The MLS is [...]

For the first 6 months of this year I was posting a weekly report on the Tampa real estate market conditions focusing on the supply of homes for sale in Tampa as opposed to the number of listings under contract. After things began to stabilize in June, I figured I switch to reporting on a monthly [...]