Northern Gulf Coast better in real estate

As painful as the real estate market may feel, at least half of the Gulf Coast appeared to have faired better than the rest of the state over the past four months.

According to a real estate report by the First American CoreLogic on home sales, price trends and foreclosure activity, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater and Sarasota-Bradenton-Venice real estate statistics were all better than the state average for delinquency rates, foreclosure rates and bank-owned propeties rate for May, April, March and February.

Unfortunately, the flipside is that the southern half of the region was wors than the state in at least one category over the past four months.