{"id":78,"date":"2026-10-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2026-10-23T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:00:00","slug":"tampa-bay-sellers-face-rising-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/23\/tampa-bay-sellers-face-rising-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Sellers Face Rising Costs"},"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\/tampa-home-sellers-remotion-videos-b9c6\" 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 Bay, pending sales were \u2193~6% yearly, and homes averaged 70 days on market, creating more negotiating room for qualified buyers.<br \/>\nProperty insurance had doubled over five years, while higher mortgage rates and rising property taxes squeezed affordability for Tampa Bay buyers and sellers.<br \/>\nLocal agents said many Tampa Bay homes lingered longer than expected, and sellers often welcomed one offer instead of pandemic-era bidding wars recently.<br \/>\nThat shift suggested a buyer&#039;s market was developing in Tampa Bay, giving financially ready shoppers more time to compare homes and negotiate terms.<br \/>\nSome homeowners paused their listings while waiting on a tax-cut measure, hoping the outcome might improve holding costs before final selling decisions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tampa Bay, pending sales were \u2193~6% yearly, and homes averaged 70 days on market, creating more negotiating room for qualified buyers. Property insurance had doubled over five years, while higher mortgage rates and rising property taxes squeezed affordability for Tampa Bay buyers and sellers. Local agents said many Tampa Bay homes lingered longer than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","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\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyinvestorfriendly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}