“Tampa we love”: Jon Paul, Nick Pérez say some investors “not comfortable” with gulfside city

Everyone knows where Miami is, but Tampa is a harder sell, Related Group’s president and CEO said in a CNBC interview this week. With some international investors, “we say, ‘Oh, would you want to go to Tampa?’ And they’re like, ‘Well, where’s Tampa on a map?’” Jon Paul Pérez told Diana Olick on the Property Play podcast. Job growth is strong in the gulfside city, and “rents have caught up, and in some ways, surpassed where we are in Miami, in certain locations,” he said. Luxury home sales and rentals are hot in Tampa, he said.  But the rest of […]This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.