Real estate slowdown is coming home across area [South Florida]

Real estate slowdown is coming home across area [South Florida]

Troubles in the market are acutely felt as home inventories rise, prices fall and expectations sink.

Green, 39, is a real estate appraiser. He used to live in Seminole Heights in Tampa. He and his wife, Leah, have a 2-year-old son.

Lester, 54, owns what could be the last dairy farm in Pasco County. He’s got 500 cows, a posse of Labradors and a big, rambling house just off U.S. 41 in northern Land O’Lakes.

But in the face of an imploding property market, both men have something in common: they are finding themselves with more space than they might need.