St. Louis Homes for Sale: How Much Do Sellers Drop their Asking Price?

March 22, 2012

One of the biggest questions we get asked is how much sellers come down from their listing price in contract negotiations. Buyers need this information so they can decide if a home listed just above their budget is affordable. They want to get the best deal they can on a home, but also need to [...]

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St. Louis Free Summer Concert Schedule 2012

March 22, 2012

Updated 5/4/2012 In 2008, I tried to find a complete list of the free summer concerts in St. Louis, and realized that nothing I found had ALL of the free concerts in the St. Louis area. So, I put together my own list. Over the last 4 years, the summer concert post has become the [...]

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What are the Best High Schools in St. Louis?

March 21, 2012

Real estate agents hear this question a lot. Unfortunately, there isn’t an easy answer. There are so many factors you could consider when comparing high school performance. College admission test scores (ACT or SAT) Standardized testing scores (MAP testing in Missouri) Graduation rate Dropout rate Class size Teacher years of experience or education level How [...]

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St. Louis Homes for Sale: Are St. Louis Home Prices Still Dropping?

March 21, 2012

Determining if home sales are dropping isn’t an easy statistic to identify since the homes that sold in 2010 were different homes than the ones that sold in 2011. Think of it this way. Lets imagine that the majority of buyers one year were buying homes priced between $200,000 – $300,000. Let’s suppose that there [...]

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St. Louis Homes for Sale: How Many Homes Sold vs Failed to Sell (2008 – 2011)?

March 20, 2012

One of the best ways to assess how the local housing market is doing is to evaluate how many homes successfully sell vs how many fail to sell. The charts below show the number of S.t Louis properties listed by an agent in the MLS that closed vs the ones that were eventually taken off [...]

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St. Louis Homes for Sale: How Long Does it Take to Sell a Home in St. Louis?

March 19, 2012

When homeowners contact us to sell their homes, one of the questions they ask is how long it typically takes to sell a home. There are homes that sell in a week like the 2 that we sold last month. There are also homes that take over a year because they are not priced correctly [...]

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