That’s right, Zombies are very real and very present in St Louis…at least Zombie foreclosures that is! That’s right. According to a foreclosure zombie report just released this morning by RealtyTrac, St Louis made the list of “Top 10 Zombie Foreclosure Rates Among Major Markets”, coming in at number 6 on the list with 1 of every 1,627 housing units being a zombie foreclosure. In the number 1 spot on the list was Tampa Florida where 1 of every 217 housing units is a zombie foreclosure (the complete list, and infographic, is below). Continue Reading →
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What cities in St Louis County have the highest home prices? Well, based upon homes that are either currently for sale or sold within the past year, the top 3 spots on both lists (current market or past 12 months0 are occupied by the St Louis County cities of Huntleigh, Country Life Acres and Ladue. Continue Reading → Yes, I’m referring to CO Gas, more commonly known as Carbon Monoxide, of course! Carbon monoxide (CO) is a silent killer! There are many reasons why you should have a fully functional Carbon monoxide (CO) detector in your house at all times! First we need to understand the facts! Continue Reading → The other day I had a client, who was planning on using FHA financing, as me if I thought she would be able to negotiate as good of a deal as if she was obtaining a conventional loan. The concern was that, as an FHA buyer, would she be perceived as a weaker buyer in the seller’s eyes since FHA’s credit and income guidelines are not as stringent as Fannie Mae, and FHA requires a smaller downpayment as well. Continue Reading → The State of Missouri spends $9,597 per pupil on public schools and is ranked 30th in the nation in terms of spending per pupil, according to data just released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue Reading → There were 437,000 new homes sold (single-family) in the U.S. last year, down from a peak of 1,283,000 in 2005. Roughly ten percent of the single-family homes sold were attached homes (44,000) and the remaining ninety-percent (393,000) were detached homes, according to data just released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue Reading → The pending home sales index, published by the National Association of REALTORS® ,based upon the number of homes that went under contract but have not yet closed yet, hit 112.4 in April, a 3.4% increase from March and a 14% increase from a year ago marking the largest annual increase in almost 3 years (since September 2012) and the highest level for the index since hitting 112.5 in May 2006 during the height of the boom. Continue Reading → The city of St Louis came in at the top of list of RealtyTrac’s “Top Buyer’s Markets”, just released this morning. For the report, RealtyTrac analyzed average sales prices and estimated market values at time of sale for homes and condos sold in April in 315 U.S. counties to come up with a list of the Top Seller’s Markets and the Top Buyer’s Markets. Continue Reading → New home sales here in the midwest region of the U.S. occurred in April at an adjusted annual rate of 78,000 homes, an increase of 36.8 percent from the month before when new home sales activity was at the rate of 57,000 homes per year and an increase of 20 percent from April 2014 when new homes were selling at the rate of 65,000 homes a year, according to data just released by the U.S. Census Bureau and HUD. Continue Reading → St Louis foreclosures increased in April from the month before in the St Louis area counties of St Charles, Jefferson and Franklin, were fairly level in St Louis County and declined almost 12 percent in the city of St Louis. For the 5 counties that make up the core of the St Louis real estate market, the median increase in foreclosure activity in April 2015 from the month before was, as the table below shows, 10.68%, and, compared with foreclosure activity from April 2014, the median increase in foreclosure activity was almost 30 percent, according to data released this morning by RealtyTrac. Continue Reading → New Home Construction in the Midwest really heated up during the month of may with construction beginning during the month on new single-family homes a the annual rate of 126,000 homes, an increase of 43.2% from March and an increase of 15.6% from April 2014, according to newly released date from the U.S. Commerce Department and U.S. Census Bureau. Continue Reading → The mortgage delinquency rate (home owners that are 60 days or more delinquent on mortgage payment) dropped to 2.95 percent in the first quarter of 2015, marking the first time the mortgage delinquency rate has been below 3 percent since the 3rd quarter of 2007 when the rate was 2.61 percent, according to a report released this morning by TransUnion. Continue Reading → Pulsenomics just released the results of it’s most recent Home Price Expectations Survey in which over 100 housing experts were questioned about their expectations for the housing market in the coming years. The report revealed that, overall, the panel predicts home prices from now through 2019 to increase at an annual rate of 3.6% which just so happens to be consistent with the overall historical performance of the market. Continue Reading → Cash home sales accounted for just under 1 of every 4 (23%) home sales in St Louis during the month of April 2015, a slight decline from a year ago when cash home sales were responsible for 25% of the total home sales. Continue Reading → A definite confirmation of an improving real estate market is the fact that, according to a report just released by RealtyTrac, loan originations, for the purchase of a home, during the first quarter of 2015 increased 17 percent from a year ago. Additionally, Kansas City, Missouri saw the 4th largest increase from a year ago, of major metro areas, with a 32 percent increase in home loans. St Louis made the top 20 list for year or year increases with a 13 percent increase. (We work hard on this and sure would appreciate a “Like”)[iframe http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FStLouisRealEstateNews&send=false&layout=standard&width=50&show_faces=false&font&colorscheme=light&action=like&height=35&appId=537283152977556 100 35 ] There have been many recent articles and reports about the millennial generation and why they are not buying homes at the same rate as earlier generations did at their age. Many point to the burden of student loan debt as a cause of their inability to qualify for a mortgage thereby holding the millennials back from buying a home. However, a new study by TransUnion suggests this may not be the case. Continue Reading → There is no doubt the St Louis real estate market has been HOT thus far this spring and homes are selling well. Personally, four, of the last five listings I’ve taken, sold within the first day of hitting the MLS. Granted, there is a lot that goes into this in terms of pricing, marketing strategy etc., but even with everything done perfectly we weren’t seeing results like this last year Continue Reading → Flipping homes accounts for a smaller percentage of home sales today at about 4 percent of total home sales in the U.S., then in the recent past when they accounted for 6 percent of more of the homes being sold (6.8% at the recent peak in 1st quarter 2012), according to a report released today by RealtyTrac. Continue Reading → House flipping in St Louis accounted for just 2.4 percent of the home sales in the St Louis metro area during the first quarter of this year, according to data just obtained from RealtyTrac. Continue Reading → Paula Anderson, a landlord who owns a two-bedroom home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was charged with discrimination by HUD after HUD’s investigation revealed that there was cause to believe Anderson had violated the Federal Fair Housing act as follows: As described in paragraphs 7 to 25 above, Respondent Anderson violated 42 U.S.C. §§ 3604(f)(1) and (f)(2) as defined by 42 U.S.C. § 3604(f)(3)(B) because she discriminated in the terms, conditions, or privileges of Complainant’s tenancy and made her dwelling unavailable by refusing to allow Complainant to live with her assistance animal and daughter at the subject property when such Continue Reading → Realtor.com just released it’s list of the 20 hottest real estate markets in America and the top two markets are in Texas, with Waco at number one and Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington at number two. Realtor.com’s rankings were based upon the number of listing views relative to the number of listings on Realtor.com. Continue Reading → Pending home sales, the measure of homes with contracts on them but not yet closed, is up five percent on a year to date basis through April of this year compared with the same time last year, for the five-county St Louis core market (St Louis City and the Counties of St Louis, St Charles, Jefferson and Franklin). Through the end of April, there have been 7,434 pending home sales, up from 7,080 at the same time last year but still down from 7,984 at this time in 2013. The chart below shows the past five years and, beneath that, Continue Reading → Distressed home sales (foreclosures, REO’s and short sales) made up 13.5 percent of the home sales in the U.S. in February, 2015, a decline of 18% from a year ago when the rate was 16.5 percent and is a decline of 5.6% from January when the rate was 14.3%, according to a report just released by Corelogic. Continue Reading → St Louis home sales, in the 5-county “core” St Louis market, increased 16.9 percent in March from the year before, with 2,589 homes sold in March 2015 up from 2,214 sold in March 2014. As the chart below shows, there was the normal “seasonal” dip during the winter months, but the St Louis real estate market has come out of winter strong! St Louis home prices on the rise too! As the chart below also illustrates, the median price of homes sold in St Louis has increased from a year ago as well. The median price of homes sold in Continue Reading → The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) issued a release yesterday stating that while that agency acts as conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, no “property of the Agency shall be subject to levy, attachment, garnishment, foreclosure, or sale without the consent of the Agency.” The release went on to say that Title 12 United States Code Section 4617(j)(3) “precludes involuntary extinguishment of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac liens while they are operating in conservatorships and preempts any state law that purports to allow holders of homeownership association (HOA) liens to extinguish a Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac lien, Continue Reading → Between 2006 and 2014 nearly 9.3 million homeowners in the U.S. were either foreclosed on, did a deed of lieu of foreclosures, or did a short sale of their home, according to a recent report by the National Association of REALTORS (NAR). Continue Reading → New Home Construction in the Midwest showed mixed results in March with a small increase from a year ago in the number of building permits issued but a decline in the number of new homes construction began on or was completed on, according to data released this week by the U.S. Commerce Department and U.S. Census Bureau. Continue Reading → Foreclosure activity in St Louis was on the rise in March with the foreclosure rate for the St Louis metro area increasing 14 percent from a year ago and over 64 percent from February, according to the latest data from RealtyTrac. As the chart below shows, foreclosure activity for the larger Missouri counties that are included in the St Louis MSA saw foreclosure actions decline from a year ago with the exception of Franklin County which saw a big increase. Continue Reading → This week, the 10,000 square foot Ladue Manse that is the home of Barry H. Beracha and his wife Barbara, came on the market with a price tag of $3,75 million. “Casual elegance” is how the listing describes this 16 room home, with 5 bedrooms, 7 bath rooms and a 1.5 acre lot located at 5 Warson Hills Lane in Ladue. Mr. Beracha currently serves as a Director for Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. and, prior to retirement, served as Chief Executive Officer of the Sara Lee Bakery Group. 5 Warson Hills, Ladue, Misouri 63124 To view all Continue Reading → The St Louis real estate market has definitely heated up and we are seeing as many as 10 or 20 showings on new listings within the first day or two of hitting the market with many of the homes also selling during the first couple of days. Naturally, this is not happening for all homes in all price ranges in all areas, but is certainly happening in some. So where are homes selling the quickest in St Louis? To answer this question, I pulled market data for homes that are currently under contract but have not closed, then looked at how much time they were on the market before selling and have the results below. Continue Reading → |
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