When local daylight time is about to reach Sunday, November 4, 2018, 2:00:00 am clocks are turned backward 1 hour to Sunday, November 4, 2018, 1:00:00 am local standard time instead. Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour earlier on Nov 4, 2018 than the day before. There will be more light in the morning. Also called Fall Back and Winter Time. More info: Florida Says Yes to Year-Round Daylight Saving Time Nov 4: DST Ends in USA & Canada

Downtown Trick or Treat – The Willard Home Team will be Setting up in Front of Dunedin Coffee Company!! STOP BY FOR TREATS AND ENTER TO WIN FREE COFFEE FOR A YEAR!! Presented by City of Dunedin, Dunedin History Museum and Downtown Dunedin Merchants Association Date:10/26/2018 Location:Downtown Dunedin Douglas Ave & Main St Dunedin, Florida 34698 CostFree to participate Add to my Calendar Downtown Trick or Treat Friday, October 26, 2018 5-8:00 pm Free to participate Downtown Dunedin, along Main St. and Broadway Ave. (727) 298-3201 Roads will be closed for children to safely trick or treat along Main St. and Broadway Ave. Participating merchants will display a pumpkin in their window. Visit the Dunedin History Museum for their Halloween exhibit and costume parade to line up at 5:45 pm and parade to Pioneer Park for awards at 6:30 pm. Cap the night off with a family-friendly Film in the Park. Presented by City of Dunedin, Dunedin History Museum and Downtown Dunedin Merchants Association. Road Closure information: Friday, 10/26/18, 1:30 PM – 9:30 PM Broadway from Scotland Street to Main Street; Main Street from Broadway to Louden Avenue; Douglas Avenue from Scotland St. to Monroe Street; Virginia Lane from Douglas Avenue to Main Street; Wood Street from Douglas Avenue to Highland Avenue; Highland Avenue from Virginia Street to Grant Street. Download flyer

It’s taken 40 years but the Tampa Bay area has finally been named one of the nation’s top 10 markets for real estate investors. And we’re not talking just house flippers but also big-time investors prepared to sink millions into warehouses, office buildings, industrial space and shopping centers. “The investment prospects are across all types of properties,” said Mitch Roschelle, a partner at PwC US and co-author of Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2019. “What Tampa (Bay) has in common with other top 10 cities is that its employment base is growing, its population is growing and the result is an engine for continued economic prosperity.” RELATED: Here are three of the most unusual Tampa Bay houses now for sale For the past four decades, PwC US and the Urban Land Institute have collaborated on an annual survey of real estate professionals around the globe. This year they queried 2,400 pros, who ranked Tampa Bay 10th among 79 U.S. metro areas in overall real estate prospects. And it ranked second in home building, surpassed only by Nashville. What makes the bay area so attractive? One big reason is that housing is a relative bargain, with a median home price of $227,000 compared to $262,000 nationally. “In a period of tight labor markets, employers tend to gravitate to where workers can live affordably,” Roschelle said in a phone interview this week. “When you have 3.7 percent unemployment (nationally), jobs chase people versus the other way around. Tampa is enjoying the benefits of the fact there is an employment base that wants to be there because it’s affordable.” MORE: Go here for more Business News Also key to the bay area’s investment appeal: a population increasing by about 1.3 percent a year, almost twice the national rate. Not surprisingly, all those new residents have pushed Tampa Bay into the No. 2 spot for homebuilding, whether by a big “publicly traded builder or a small entrepreneur building its first spec homes,” Roschelle said. “What’s driving that is the fact home prices are considerably more affordable than nationally and that Florida is favorable from a tax perspective relative to New York, where I live.” Most of the markets that made the list of best places to invest in 2019 are smaller metro areas. That is not surprising either, Roschelle says. “The entry point is lower; they are affordable to invest in,’’ he said. “We are in a virtuous cycle — when you have cities that are affordable to do business in and live in, they tend to prosper because more people and more companies want to go there.” One downside of continued growth is traffic congestion, which could become an even bigger headache in the Tampa Bay area with no rapid transit options in the foreseeable future. Roschelle notes that traffic between Fort Lauderdale and Miami is so “horrendous” that more people are choosing to work in their home county rather than commute. “Down the road, companies will find themselves locating where people live as opposed to where companies think they should be,’’ he said. “If you go down I-75, you’ll find that markets like Sarasota are growing their office stock because more people are opting to stay there and work down there.” Other trends cited by the report: • Retail space gets a new lease on life. With low prices, it’s a good time to repurpose such space for urgent care clinics, health and fitness centers, financial services and entertainment venues. • Amenities go wild. New office buildings and apartments communities will include child and pet care, bike storage and even fruit and vegetable gardens. • 18-hour suburbs grow. The generation that drove the urbanization trend and 18-hour cities might finally be ready to move to “the ‘burbs.’’ But millennials will still be looking for urban amenities like walkable neighborhoods and proximity to shopping and entertainment. Contact Susan Taylor Martin at smartin@tampabay.com or (727) 893-8642. Follow @susanskate Top 10 markets for real estate investors in 2019 1. Dallas/Fort Worth 2. Brooklyn, N.Y. 3. Raleigh-Durham, N.C. 4. Orlando 5. Nashville 6. Austin 7. Boston 8. Denver 9. Charlotte, N.C. 10. Tampa Bay