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The year was 1997, Joe Edwards was brainstorming ways to bring more people to the area of town known as the Delmar Loop that he has been an instrumental part of making a success. It came to him suddenly, “Lets make a trolley that goes down the middle of the street and continues all the [...]
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Fenton MO is a growing city that has the benefits of suburban life and the big city access to Highways and Shopping. Gravois Bluffs has become a major shopping destination for both St Louis county and Jefferson County residents. Fenton has many “sub-division” type home builders, but what if you want a custom built [...]
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1. Where do you want to be? What is ground zero, the perfect spot? And how far north, south, east and west would you be willing to go from that spot?
2. With 5 employees, is 1,000 SF the right amount of space? 5 people per 1,000 feet is a good rule of thumb, but if you have special storage needs or big servers, that could [...]
Today at the St. Louis association of Realtors (SLAR) local real estate experts gathered over lunch to hear guest speaker
Dr. Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Research of the National Association of REALTORS® speak about “Market Trends & Economic Forecasting”
Yun discussed the U.S. economy and the impact that it has on the [...]
Mortgage rates held relatively steady last week despite an increase of roughly 7 basis points on the 5 year and 10 year treasury notes. A majority of the rate market activity recently has been in treasuries with mortgage rates remaining surprisingly stable. The stock market remains confined to a wide trading range with [...]
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7/22/2010
ST. LOUIS, MO – Laura Poole with the Hermann London Real Estate Group has been awarded the National Association of REALTORS®’ Green Designation, the only green real estate professional designation recognized by NAR.
Poole achieved this prestigious designation after completing 18 hours of course work designed specifically for REALTORS®. The courses were created in collaboration with [...]
Over the past few months there has been a lot of talk about the newest neighborhood school-Gateway Science Academy of St. Louis. I have heard many items discussed that are true as well as many discussions based on false information. Last Thursday I went to the town hall meeting to hear about the school and [...]
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If you haven’t noticed Green everything is taking us by storm. Green Buildings, Green Cars, green restaurants, etc. Well the newest addition to this phenomenon is green cleaning. We had the co-owner of Holistic Housecleaning Inc come to our office today for a presentation about their green cleaning services. I was very impressed to hear [...]
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Last week proved to be another great week for the mortgage bond markets. 30 year conventional bonds increased 69
basis points, 30 year FHA bonds increased 100 basis points and 15 year conventional bonds increased 84 basis points. Overall these bond price increases led to a decrease in mortgage rates of approximately 8 basis points on [...]
Short Sales are one of the hottest buzz words in Real Estate today. Buyers want to buy them (they think) and sellers
want to sell them (they think) but most people don’t really understand them, and everyone you talk to has a different opinion about them.
We did a survey to Realtors across the [...]