The Results with Lots of Home Prices in Tampa

By Lance Mohr


Tampa Bay, with recorded home prices dipping to their lowest point in 10 years, has been one of the worst affected cities as a result of the decline in the property market. Not only has many houses being forced to foreclose as a result of the dipping prices, residents to have been deeply affected due to various adverse conditions arising from this situation.

Even if the present low pricing structure favors the buyers, sellers and residents who have made Tampa their home are finding that the market is clearly on a downward spiral with the price of a home going down to a mere $126,900 at end 2011 whilst other states recorded an average price of $133,900 during the same time.

When houses in a particular area have to foreclose, it can affect the whole neighborhood. When this happens the sales value of houses in the entire locality goes down mostly due to association. This can even affect other normal sellers to whom the low priced foreclosed homes pose a big challenge.

Families to Tourists - the Tampa Bay area is well known for its many good schools and colleges, high living standards and social atmosphere. It is a popular city for families. Almost seventy percent of residents are below the age of 55 with children. Now, with the decline in the number of families that can afford to keep their homes, real estate investors are taking advantage of the low Tampa home prices to buy up properties and rent them out to tourists, college students or whoever else turns up first.

In the backdrop of the economy taking a down turn and with so many homes being unoccupied there's no saying when you can expect the Tampa area to start filling up with residents again. This is a place ripe for vandals and other crooks that will make use of homes that have not been well secured to invite buyers not only to view the properties but also collect fees as well as deposits from the unwary by posing as home owners. These crooks will be long gone by the time the buyers realize they have been well and truly duped.

In a scenario where empty homes are being misused, even Tampa New Homes there's no immediate prospect of seeing new residents filling the neighborhood because vandals are always attracted to homes without tenants. This will also provide a good opportunity for bogus realtors to offer viewings to potential buyers where the buildings have not been properly secured. Pretending to be Real Estate Agents they are able not only to get viewing fees but also deposits from unsuspecting buyers, who only later realize that they had been dealing with fraudsters and the homes are not up for sale.

Once known as one of the best 10 cities for a quality life, today's community in Tampa is undergoing a lot of stress and anxiety. Drastically lowered home pricing in the area has resulted in some residents even having to mortgage their properties with the scary possibility of ending up without a home.

It's sad to think that Tampa was one time city named as one of the top 10 in the world, is in a state where its residents are going through so much suffering and depression. What with many homes being foreclosed while others are being mortgaged due to the severe price decline in the housing market, it won't be long before at least some of them end up without a roof over their heads.