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Royal Stewart Arms 55+ community is situated on Dunedin Causeway, which is the gateway to Honeymoon Island state park. Dunedin, FL is a community on the Gulf of Mexico, with Tarpon Springs to the north and Clearwater Beach to the south. Royal Stewart Arms is a condo community with 454 condos, ran...

Just what is, or was, the fiscal cliff??  Is it something that people actually fall off of? Does the extension Congress voted for recently mean much, or anything, or a whole lot, to the average homeowner? If you are interested in finding out some of the ramifications, take a look at the info in o...

The East Lake part of Palm Harbor has done very nicely lately in its real estate values.  There are currently 118 active listings in the 34685 zip code, East Lake, Palm Harbor.  The real estate values for list prices have remained stable for the last 9 months, with the January list prices declini...

The Palm Harbor real estate market has stabilized and over the past few months prices have been relatively stable.  The bottom of the market seems to be in the past, and now things are slowly getting better.  Sellers are listing their homes for a little more than a year ago.  In Pinellas County, ...

The Dunedin real estate market has hit bottom, and now prices are beginning to move up, although ever so slightly.  On September 1, 2012, the median list price for a single family house in Dunedin, FL was $238,000.  On January 15, 2013 the median list price for a single family house in Dunedin, F...

There are lots of experts from all quarters talking about the health of the real estate market across the nation. And there are experts talking about the health of the housing market in various states or regions. All that is well and good, however, if you live in a specific city or town in Florid...

Now that the real estate market in the Tampa Bay area has hit bottom, almost everywhere, prices are now moving upwards.  As an example, if yesterday a buyer was looking at a house for $200,000 with a 3.5% mortgage and just qualifies, that is great.  Now, let's assume that interest rates jump by a...

So, we've all heard about the fiscal cliff and that it will be bad.  In a recent interview, Lawrence Yun of the National Association of Realtors, gave his opinion of what the impact of the fiscal cliff might be. Sequestration, the mandatory cuts Congress passed because the Congress did NOT adopt ...

What makes Dunedin, FL such a great place to live, and own real estate? It is the lifestyle that Dunedin offers. There are very interesting brick lined streets, with mature trees, sidewalks and charming cottages with front porches meant to be used as you watch the calmness of the neighborhood. Th...

With all the doom and gloom in the press about how bad the economy is, buyers seem to think that if they wait to buy a house that the sellers will have to come down in price to meet the, sometimes, outrageous offers the buyers make.  And 18 months ago, that might have been true.  In the Tampa Bay...