{"id":53,"date":"2026-10-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/tonyinvestorfriendly-com\/2026\/10\/19\/what-tampa-new-homes-could-offer-buyers\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:00:00","slug":"what-tampa-new-homes-could-offer-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/19\/what-tampa-new-homes-could-offer-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"What Tampa New Homes Could Offer Buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/tonino-damiano\/new-home-prices-remotion-videos-9d20\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In Tampa, a listings platform found new construction sold for $198 per sq-ft in Early-Q3 2026, versus $226 for existing homes, or ~12% less.<br \/>\nThat per-foot gap meant ~$56K in savings on a 2K-sq-ft home, giving budget-minded buyers a chance to compare newer space more seriously.<br \/>\nThe discount reflected heavy boom-era building: builders with finished inventory and many competing listings had more reason to trim prices or cover closing costs.<br \/>\nExisting owners with equity and mortgages near ~3% had less reason to cut asking prices, while builders faced stronger pressure to make deals.<br \/>\nEven with that discount, new homes made up ~14% of Tampa-area sales through Early-Q3 2026, down from ~16% in 2019, signaling a thinner pipeline.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tampa, a listings platform found new construction sold for $198 per sq-ft in Early-Q3 2026, versus $226 for existing homes, or ~12% less. That per-foot gap meant ~$56K in savings on a 2K-sq-ft home, giving budget-minded buyers a chance to compare newer space more seriously. The discount reflected heavy boom-era building: builders with finished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}