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If you are looking to buy in the Tampa Bay area, mortgage rates are currently dipping down for 30-year fixed to 5.37%:

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/rate/mtg_home.asp

http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/12/real_estate/mortgage_rates/index.htm?postversion=2009031213

For first-time home buyers if you buy before December you get a tax credit

http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/13/real_estate/homebuyer_tax_credit_finalized/index.htm?postversion=2009021712

That coupled with home prices dropping a record average of 18.2% (in Tampa the average is a 22% drop)

http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/24/real_estate/Case_Shiller_December/index.htm?postversion=2009030611

it is one of THE best times to buy in the Tampa Bay area. This includes but is not limited to the following areas:

• Bayonet Point
• Hudson
• Port Richey
• New Port Richey
• Holiday
• Tarpon Springs
• Palm Harbor
• Safety Harbor
• Dunedin
• Clearwater
• Clearwater Beach
• St Petersburg
• Tampa

and throughout the Tampa Bay area.

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The latest statistics are out. In February 2009 there were 1,954 single family homes and condos that were sold in the Tampa Bay area while 3,307 were pending sales:

February 2009 Statistics For Hillsborough, Pasco, and Pinellas Counties

* All reports are published Mar. 2009, based on data available at the end of Feb. 2008.

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