Welcome to day one of our South Tampa Neighborhood Series! Over the next few weeks, I'm taking you street by street through the neighborhoods I love most, and there was really only one place to start. Hyde Park is the neighborhood people picture when they daydream about moving to Tampa: oak canopies, brick streets, front porches, and Bayshore Boulevard just a few blocks away. Grab your coffee and let's take a stroll.

A Little History (and a Fun Fact or Two)

Hyde Park is one of Tampa's oldest neighborhoods, and it has a great origin story. In the 1880s, Henry B. Plant's bridge across the Hillsborough River opened up the west side of the river to development. In 1886, O.H. Platt, a businessman from Hyde Park, Illinois, bought farmland here and named…

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If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me "So how's the market?" this month, I could probably buy a waterfront lot on Davis Islands. (Okay, maybe not quite. But you get the idea.)

It's a great question, and the honest answer is that Tampa has two markets right now. They share the same neighborhoods and the same gorgeous Bayshore sunsets, but they're moving at very different speeds. Grab your coffee and let's walk through it together.

The Everyday Market: Calm, Steady and Buyer-Friendly

Across the Tampa metro, there were 4,589 home sales in July, at a median price of $384,900. Inside the city limits, the median sale price is about $437,000, up just over 1% from last year, and homes are going under contract in roughly 38 days.

What does…

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