We have been serving real estate to the Tampa Bay home buyer and seller for over 50 years. While we have heard it all, there are many of the same questions that arise for our clients. Work with our agents and we can help you with all of your real estate needs. Top 10 Questions from real estate clients:

1. What is the first step of the home buying process?

When considering buying a home, the first step is to figure out your finances, determining what is a reasonable monthly payment for you and how much you will be able to put down for a loan. Many websites, including ours, have mortgage calculators to help you get a general idea of what a home loan looks like on a monthly basis.

2. How Will My Home Purchase Affect My Taxes?

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We are excited to announce that our real estate sellers will now be able to compare instant offers from the big box brands (Opendoor, Offerpad, and Zillow) versus listing on the open market, all quickly and easily on the Smith & Associates website with our Offer Optimizer™ tool. The Offer Optimizer™ is an in-house iBuyer tool that offers sellers who are curious about instant offers a seamless way to compare online offers to the traditional approach of selling a home with a Smith agent and then choose the best option for their needs. For more on the Smith Offer Optimizer™ platform, please read the press release below.

For Immediate Release

Local Real Estate Company Optimizes The iBuyer Experience

Smith & Associates Launches Offer Optimizer™

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Cobalt Tower South Residence

Rendering of Cobalt South Tower Residence | Saltaire

A home’s interior design is a personal reflection of a life lived, containing design choices that reveal preferences accumulated over a lifetime and art, artifacts, and pictures from blissful adventures and precious moments in time. And when you live in a condo tower, shared spaces like the lobby and amenity decks become extensions of the home and opportunities to craft one-of-kind spaces with distinctive style that are elegantly proportioned to balance scale with intimacy.

With the new crop of luxury high rises, progressive developers are choosing to work closely with top designers to ensure unique, quality design is experienced the moment you step on the property.

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