Starting early next year, Pasco County will offer $20 million in down payment help to prospective home buyers – part of a push to put people back into the foreclosed and abandoned homes that riddle the county. County commissioners today effectively rewrote a proposal by the county's Community Development office for spending $19.5 million in federal housing money aimed at addressing the national housing crisis. The county will add $6 million of its own housing money to increase the federal funding's reach. The proposal original presented to commissioners would have spent $16.3 million on buying and rehabbing run-down homes to make them sellable. Another $4 million was put into helping low- and moderate-income people get mortgages. ...more

October 21, 2008

Bold measures are needed, a real estate leader told Pasco County commissioners today as a foreclosure rescue plan worth nearly $20 million took shape. ...more

October 21, 2008

Cory Zarem saw the construction downturn cut the income from his sign business by half and decided he could no longer afford his Sarasota home. ...more

October 6, 2008

The choices might be coming down to slim and none. That's what Pasco County leaders and residents are saying about alternatives to a $700 billion federal government bailout plan for financial institutions wracked by foreclosures and other bad debts. Congress approved the bailout Friday. ...more

October 5, 2008

Relay for Life New Port Richey will hold an Early Bird Party next Wednesday, Sept. 3, publicity chair Risa Bright reports. The fun starts at 7 p.m. at the West Pasco Board of Realtors, 5409 Sunset Road. ...more

August 30, 2008

The Lake Placid Board of Realtors is sponsoring a Home Buyers' Workshop on Tuesday, Aug. 19 from 7 - 9 p.m. at the Lake Placid campus of South Florida Community College in Room 124. ...more

August 17, 2008

A Realtor running for county commission said he was "floored" when he learned he was not endorsed by the organization created to promote the local real estate industry. ...more

August 1, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY - For once there might be some glimmer of good news about the housing market, at least in Pasco. Sales of existing homes not only rose in May, the number sold last month was slightly higher than the total a year ago, in May 2007. ...more

June 14, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY -- Sales of existing homes rose in May, edging slightly above the number sold a year ago as the Pasco housing market continues to rebound. ...more

June 10, 2008

While the federal government has been sending income tax rebate checks to stimulate the economy, another proposal in the works would offer a $750 tax credit to entice people to buy houses. ...more

June 5, 2008