• Food & Drink
• Fashion & Specialty
• Health & Wellness
• Events
• Neighborhoods
• Variety
• Pricing

Food & Drink

We're going to start with the always fan-favorite food and drink category. So I'm going to portray this as the perfect day just to structure it appropriately. Let's start with your wake-up. I'm not a breakfast person, I'm a coffee person, and you have places, just one example would be a Buddy Brew coffee behind me. This is a real Tampa staple. They started here, their dog is the logo. This is one of their locations, but they've mirrored the aesthetic of Hyde Park versus their downtown location. It's small, but it's quaint, it's pleasing and it's right in the heart of things.

All right, you've had your coffee, a little time has passed. You're looking for an early lunch. One of my favorites is a place called Bartaco. This is the patio here. You can see it's just a cool vibe. It's street-style Mexican tacos. So you'll get three or four tacos at a time. Real handmade kind of feeling chips, but the whole vibe is like a Bohemian surf aesthetic. So it's open air, it's breezy, it's on an amazing corner here right in the middle of the village. That's one I check out. All right, so now we're between lunch and dinner. So one of the cool things I wanted to show you was these courtyard alleys that they built from the street to the rear. And what happens is you have places like behind me here, the Wine Exchange, which is perfect for this category. Great place to grab a glass of wine pre-dinner.

The front of the restaurant is on the street and the rear gets to this patio. So it's like a long shotgun. And you can see how aesthetic this area is. It's quaint, there are waterfalls. I just love the overall. So you have a place like that and you also have the Irish 31 chain restaurants would be another place to grab a beer, like a light bite. But variety is not something you'll run short of. Okay, now onto literally the meat of this conversation, pun intended. I mean, let's talk dinner. So I have a few different ones I want to show you for this category. And the first one is a place called Meat Market. You can see behind me. You can see a beautiful aesthetic. It covers this full corner. So just the environment alone is quite lovely. But where you're going to find here is your real hand-cut specialty meets, your high-end seafood, your high-end drinks and cocktails, wine, and cocktails.

All right now onto fashion, style, and a category I'm calling specialty. So you're not going to run out of options here when it comes to stores of some sort. And this corner's a great example. Just taking a quick spin here you have Suitsupply, you have Mizzen+Main, Kendra Scott, Warby Parker, and the glass place. You have Sephora and West Elm. You take one step back, you have Sur la Table, you have Sprinkles, the cupcake place, you have Lululemon, and you have Anthropology just to name a few of the 41 plus total options in this six-block radius.

Okay, continuing on that same theme, I just wanted to show you one more section. So where I stand is the polar opposite corner that I was just at. And you have a whole nother vibe. Bonobos, Madewell, Sunni Spencer, Rag & Bone, just to name a few on this one little strip. Vineyard Vines across the street. You're not going to run out of options here. And I love that every corner kind of feels different. So it's a great place. It's just an unbelievably walkable district.

Now we have health and wellness. So I know there used to be a SoulCycle right here, which is gone now, but you do have your disposal places like Clean Juice for a quick nutrient hit. You also have Barry's Bootcamp, the franchise brand if you ever heard of that. They're opening a physical location down this way, but really South Tampa in general is going to be the name of the game here. So beyond just an unbelievably safe district to bike and run and enjoy the 300 days of sunshine a year, you're going to have endless yoga, and cycling group classes. You're not going to run out of options there, but you want to look at is beyond this one zip code. You want to look at South Tampa in general, Bayshore Boulevard and the surrounding area, Davis Islands, tons going on there.

The final thing I wanted to mention for the High Park Village area specifically is events. So you have a six-block area that's safe, clean, and smart, and they utilize that to bring people together. So it happens to be the perfect timing for this video. In October, you can see the pumpkin patch behind me. Just one example of seasonal events. There's a children's book set up over here with the green space you can see. And then they use this open straight strip of the street here to do farmer's markets where they block off the street, there are First Friday events where they let the restaurants come outside and they block off the street. There's a flower truck coming next week to make your own bouquet. I don't know. You're not going to run out of options there. I think it's a huge, huge perk of living in this district.

So I'm going to talk a little bit about the neighborhoods. The unique thing here unanimously is I can touch a restaurant for the village here, Hyde Park Village. Turn here and you have this. That's the feel. It feels like a quaint neighborhood, with historic bungalows. It's charming. That's what you want to get across here because that's what people fall in love with. It's hard to describe. A lot of cities online look the same. This one feels like these are all neighborhood joints. And the big thing here, it's the most mature version. So Tampa has a lot of this. It has Riverside Heights, Hyde Park, and Seminole Heights. It has Tampa Heights, it has other areas like that. Those feel much more like an urban city. This is so mature that a lot of the streets have been restored. A lot of the real estate's already gotten up to par. So the house-to-house divide is not as large as a lot of the surrounding areas.

The other thing I wanted to mention was variety. So you have everything from those historic bungalows and you have some urban infill, knockdown, modern stuff here, but people really try to keep the charm and the historic. But you have a lot of variety as far as housing type. Because it's so close to a walking district, a lot of people want something more turnkey and more paired down and less of a burden. So you're going to see a lot of this kind of northern, almost brick-style apartments and town homes, whether you rent or purchase, you will find a pretty good spread of variety overall.

Let's talk about the pricing. That's important. So I'm going to talk numbers. In the last 12 months, you had about 316 total sales in this district. The average and the median house size was about a three bedroom, three bath. But you're just talking 1800 to 2100 interior square feet because you're really like, you sacrifice space in these areas. After all, you buy into the land. The average price is set at about 1.2 million across those sales. Now the average is going to weigh outliers, right? So the 1.8s and the two million of the world are going to average that up. And the median was about $750,000. So you had half of the properties under 750.

Now if you're buying a single-family and you're under 800K here, you're probably buying something you have to restore, something like this blue house in the background or something like that. You're buying something you most likely have to restore. But if you had something someone else renovated, there is a good chance in the new market you'll be under 1.3, 1.4 million. But these prices and this house size should translate pretty evenly, in my opinion, over the next 12 months.