Linda's St. Louis Real Estate Blog

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Earlier this year 27 students at Old Dominion University pressed their foreheads into a padded frame and peered ahead, much like patients at an eye doctor. They scrolled through pictures of 10 on-the-market homes on a computer screen as an ocular tracking program recorded their eye movements. In...

Having second thoughts if LinkedIn is valuable for whatever reason?  If you are not on LinkedIn currently, I highly suggest getting on there and learning the ropes.     A new report suggests that LinkedIn’s value has surpassed the $2 billion mark, based on recent investments from outside investor...

Today a fellow realtor told me about her seller's accusation that our touring Realtors stole $30K worth of her jewelery! Ann, the realtor, was the only one with the alarm code, and was there for every showing of the Miillion dollar home.  The week the home was on tour, she hosted the home and was...

Sherwood Forest transforms lives through camp experiences.  For more than 70 years, they have helped children realize a future beyond anything they could imagine and provided them with the tools to achieve it.  Their campers learn to respect all people and the environment, build strong relationsh...

Need to sell your home fast?  Here are some tips to sell your home fast... 1.  Hire a top notch sales agent.  You need a good agent, someone who knows your neighborhood, the area. 2.  Price it right.  If the house is priced too high or too low this could easily be a deterrent.  Price it right, it...

According to figures from the Home Builders Association of STL, permits to build new single family homes in 7 MO counties in the region rose 25.7% from the same month last year.  This is the 10th time in the last 12 months year over year figures have risen.  GREAT NEWS!! Of course, we are no whe...

  This can obviously happen anywhere, so beware of what is happening in other cities, not just your own.   Bill Wilson July 22--An Internet residential real estate scam that resurfaced in Wichita has grown out of control, local brokers say. The city's chief real estate advocate nearly was victim...

Nick Timiraos Construction slows, inventories build amid weak job growth, tax-credit end. The housing market, whose collapse pulled the economy into recession in late 2007, is stalling again. In major markets across the country, home sales are deteriorating, inventories of unsold homes are pilin...

The website and magazine Parenting has released the 2010 edition of their annual list of the best cities for families, in which they take a list of the top 101 cities by population, add a few well-known smaller ones while taking out some proximate ones, and rank them based on metrics of health, ...