Your Guide to Buying a Home in St. Petersburg, FL

Buying a Home in St. Petersburg, Florida

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St. Petersburg is located in Pinellas County

Population: 240,196 Welcome to sunny Saint Petersburg! The Guinness Book of World Records recognizes St. Petersburg as having the longest string of consecutive sunny days. There are 234 miles of shoreline in St. Petersburg, which is longer than New Hampshire's and Delaware's combined. St. Petersburg is the largest city in the area, occupying much of the southeastern half of the Pinellas Peninsula.

Saint Petersburg is home to several large corporations including: Danka Business Systems; Raymond James; Franklin Templeton; Home Shopping Network; and Lucent Technologies.

Ten marine institutes call Saint Petersburg home, making Saint Petersburg the largest oceanographic research center in the southeast.

The downtown area has six world-class museums, and more than twenty galleries. St. Petersburg is home to Major League Baseball with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The city hosts more than 700 events each year including an international sail expo, an annual fall Boat Show, offshore powerboat races, triathlon, cycling and running events.  Known as the sailing capital of the South, the city's Municipal Marina is the largest in the state.