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Pinellas County Real Estate and Homes
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Searching for a house, condo or parcel of land in the Pinellas County market has never been easier. By registering with Tampa Bay Homes List.com, you can search for your next home on the local MLS. This is the same Realtor's MLS that all of the Realtors in the Pinellas County area use.
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Quite simply, it's never been easier to find a house, condo, villa, townhome, investment property, fixer-upper, rehab, new construction or any other kind of real estate in the Pinellas County area.
Polaris Realty Group understands the local real estate market. Our real estate professionals work with home buyers in the Pinellas, Hillsborough and Pasco county markets to find just the right house, condo or parcel of land to suit their individualized needs.
Buying a home is one of the biggest investments you'll ever make one with long term financial ramifications. It calls for making many informed decisions and for good advice from a real estate professional. A Realtor can help you find the right home for your family.
We can help you:
- Select a community to live in
- Find your dream home
- Get details on how to obtain a mortgage
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Learn more about
Pinellas County
Pinellas County's earliest visitors were Panfilo de Narvaez (1528) and Hernando DeSoto (1539). They reported the area to be inhabited by the Tocobagan Tribe. After enslaving the natives and setting dogs on them, the Spanish asked if there was any gold around. the Tocobagan told the Spanish to go North. This sent the Spaniards into the territory of the ferocious Creeks of Georgia and Alabama. So few Conquistadors survived the experience that "Punta Pinal" (Point of Pines) remained shrouded in mystery for another two hundred years.By the time Spain ceded Florida to the United States in 1821, the Tocobagans died and were replaced by the Seminole Indians. The Seminoles settled largely north and east of Tampa Bay. What is now Pinellas County remained largely uninhabited with the exception of camps of American and Cuban Fishermen.
Around 1832, Count Odet Philippe of France abandoned a settlement on Florida's East Coast in the face of hostile natives and moved to what is now Safety Harbor. Philippe introduced citrus to the area and persuaded a few more settlers to move here. The area was then part of Hillsborough County.
But, by 1880, despite the establishment of Fort Harrison in what was then called Clear Water, there were only about 50 families. Three events conspired to dramatically change all that in the next decade.
First was a report to the American Medical Convention in 1885 the Pinellas Peninsula was "The Healthiest Spot on Earth".
Second a land developer named John Constantine Williams wanted to create a city in the Southern part of the peninsula. Pyotr Dementyev, a Russian immigrant turned entrepreneur, agreed to run his Orange Belt Railroad from Central Florida to Williams' holdings. Legend has it that the two men flipped a coin to see what the name of the new town would be. Dementyev won, and named the town St. Petersburg, after his home town in Russia. Williams settled for naming the largest hotel for his home town of Detroit.
Clearwater, with its high bluffs overlooking a deep harbor on the Gulf, had grown too. And when the county was split away from Hillsborough in 1911, Clearwater was named the County Seat. Other residents began to pour in, attracted by the balmy climate, (the peninsula is always cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter than Tampa).
Other immigrants came. Tarpon Springs attracted Greek sponge fishermen and today has a thriving Greek culture. Safety Harbor grew up around its world famous spa. The offshore beaches were then settled.
Today, Pinellas County offers visitors and residents alike a cultural atmosphere, a stable economy and weather that is envied by even fellow Floridians.
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