St. Louis Housing Market Reports ~ City, Zip Code or High School Reports

by Karen Goodman on March 31, 2010

When I first created this website, I knew that I wanted to provide housing market trend data for my site visitors.

For a couple of years, each month I would manually run data searches to create monthly housing market reports for each of the major school districts in the St. Louis region. The reports took a lot of time, but I felt that I owed it to my clients to provide them with factual data about the housing market trends in St. Louis rather than just guessing.

As my business grew and I got busier, I started turning more to online services which compile the data and presents the information in charts that I can incorporate into this site. The result is that I get to focus my time more on my clients and less on pulling data and creating charts, and my website visitors get updated information anytime they stop by instead of having to wait for my monthly updates.

You can see the market reports for a number of St. Louis County cities:

In addition, you can also see housing market reports for almost every zip code in St. Louis City, St. Louis County and St. Charles County.

Housing Market Reports by School District

Those original charts that I put together were always by school district, since high school boundaries have such a large impact on the value of homes in St. Louis County.

Unfortunately, I haven’t found a way to have charts on the website that are always updated which report statistics by high school.

Even though I still have to manually create charts, I’m really excited about a new tool which allows me to analyze data by any combination of the following:

County
High school
Zip code
Subdivision or condo community
Property type (residential, condo, land, 2-4 family buildings, etc)
Price range
Square footage range
Date range

I find myself over and over reminding people that the national housing news is like watching the national weather report. The national weather report will tell you if it is summer or winter, but doesn’t tell you if it is raining in your backyard.

Likewise, the national housing news doesn’t help you understand the market trends affecting your neighborhood. If you live in the St. Louis region, I can help you understand the housing trends that directly impact you.

High School Housing Market Report:

Take a look at the charts below to see a sample of the charts I can produce using this new tool.

The charts below are for the Pattonville High School boundaries.

I chose Pattonville because one of my website readers reached out to tell me that he worked for the school district and had been following my charts to stay current with what was happening in the district. He was disappointed to discover I had discontinued the high school boundary reports and asked if there was anything I could offer that would keep him updated.

I like to help when I can, and promised I would put something together him.

Pattonville High School Housing Trends:

trends chart median sale price St. Louis Housing Market Reports ~ City, Zip Code or High School Reports

trends chart inventory and sold St. Louis Housing Market Reports ~ City, Zip Code or High School Reports

trends chart dom and sp lp St. Louis Housing Market Reports ~ City, Zip Code or High School Reports

trends chart absorption rate St. Louis Housing Market Reports ~ City, Zip Code or High School Reports

The “Rate of Absorption” measures the inverse of “Months of Inventory” and represents how much of the current active listings (as a percentage) are being absorbed (or sold) each month. For instance, if there are 1,000 active listings and 100 of them sold in a given month, the rate of absorption would be 10%. 10% of the market is being sold in that given month.

These are just a sample of the charts that I can put together to analyze the trends in for any county, zip code, high school or subdivision in the St. Louis area.