Entries by DomresRealEstate

Pinellas County Schools seeks proposals to turn historic St. Pete building into staff housing

Pinellas County Schools has issued a request for proposals for a housing development for its teachers and staff. The RFP is for both the development and the management of a residential or mixed-use community at the site of the historic Tomlinson building in the Mirror Lake District of downtown St. Petersburg. The building became a vocational school in 1931, and in 1978 it was renamed the Tomlinson Adult Education Center. The center closed in December 2021. The goal is for the project to “address…

Renters are now the majority in these two Tampa ZIP codes for the first time in a decade

The dream of owning a home is being traded for renting for the first time in 55 years. The latest report from Rentcafe found that renting in the U.S. is at the highest level in half a century, with 43.7 million households living in rentals. For this study, RentCafe looked at renters and owners in 1,553 ZIP codes with a minimum population of 1,000 in 2011 and 2020 across the 50 largest U.S cities. It found 101 ZIPs nationwide that switched from a homeowner to a renter majority from 2010 to 2020. Tampa…