Buy A Home Now or Wait for the Recession: A Case Study in Ladue, MO
We have clients relocating to St. Louis from out of state and they are wondering if they should buy now or wait. In order to help them with their decision, we ran MLS data for...
New Construction In St. Louis
According to a recent report by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, construction of new homes increased 3.3 percent in November — with the gain largely coming from single-family houses being built at the strongest pace...
Tower Grove & Shaw Seller’s Market
We just had two listings in the Tower Grove area sell the first weekend they were on the market. Both 4201 Wyoming and 3942 Arsenal were multiple offer situations. Inventory is incredibly low right now in Tower Grove and...
Boomers & Millennials In The Market
It seems like every week we are reading new predictions about where the boomers are moving in their retirement years and when and where the millennials will enter the market. Economist read the census data...
Absorption Rates for South City and What They Mean for St. Louis Buyers and Sellers
The absorption rate measures how many months worth of homes are currently on the market. It is calculated by dividing the total number of homes for sale by the average number of homes sold per...
Real Estate Investing Offers Only One Likely Outcome: A Low Return
On October 6th, 2014 the New York Times published this article, Real Estate Investing Offers Only One Likely Outcome: A Low Return, by Carl Richards. Someone sent it to me and asked me what I...
New York Times: What You Get For….Featured My Listing at 2941 Russell Blvd.
New York Times What Get For… featured one of my listings this week. 2942 Russell Blvd priced at $279,900 was listed with two other homes (one from Savannah GA and another from Seattle WA). Russell...
First Steps in Pricing Your Home To Sell
When I am getting ready to put a new listing on the market, determining the right listing price is one of the most important tasks. In order to properly price a home for sale, REALTORS®...
This Old House and the Shaw Neighborhood
Hey everybody, look! I am famous. This Old House blog used one of my photos of the Shaw neighborhood. They misspelled my name but they got the Circa Properties part right. The Shaw Neighborhood was...
Are you asking “online astrologers” what your house is worth?
In a recent NY Times article, What’s My House Worth? the author confesses to being an information junkie and discusses how the online sites devoted to home values feed her obsession. But she runs into ...