St Louis MO Real Estate Auctioneer

First-time homebuyers accounted for a record-high share of purchases last month, according to new data released this week by Campbell Surveys. The results aren’t entirely unexpected, considering the April 30 contract deadline to receive the federal homebuyer tax credit is fast approaching.The mom...

The conclusion of the Federal Reserve’s mortgage purchase program had many worried that mortgage rateswould jump to sky-high levels. And the uninterrupted increase in rates during the weeks following the sunset of the program just added fuel to that fire. However, in a turn of events, mortgage ra...

The U.S. economy is continuing to show signs of recovery, according to the Federal Reserve Beige Book published this week – the third in a series of eight to be released over the course of 2010. Based on information collected across the country from businesses and contactsoutside the Federal Rese...

The end of the housing correction is looking closer, as the job market finally turns the corner, investors step up home purchases, and the Obama administration revamps its foreclosure mitigation efforts, according to Moody’s Investors Service.“These forces lift our outlook for house prices slight...

A vacant house is like a vacant stare. Something is just not right.Trying to sell a vacant house adds obstacles and depresses the sales price, says Showhomes, a nationally franchised home staging company. Showhomes uses live-in home stagers to lower the cost of staging and produce faster home sal...

Distressed properties, including short sales and REOs, accounted for 29 percent of all home sales in the United States in January, according to new data released Thursday by First American CoreLogic.The company says it’s the highest level of distressed transactions since April 2009, and not too f...

Lovely 3BR, 1.5 BATH Ranch Home with basement located at 1727 Mary Hubert Court, St. Louis MO 63125 will be sold to the Highest Bidder at Real Estate Auction on Friday, April 23, 2010 at 11:00 AM CDT subject to Seller Confirmation. The Home will be sold "As Is, Where Is and With All Faults". Prev...

The Federal Reserve has gotten a first-hand look at the kind of havoc residential and commercial real estate loans can wreak on a balance sheet in today’s market. It can nowfully appreciate – that’s empathize, not sympathize, mind you – the woes that lenders and mortgage investors have been facin...

The administration’s Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives (HAFA) program is in effect, and players from every corner of the industry – agents, lenders, and technology vendors – are teaming up and working in unison to help ensure the short sale program’s success.Monday evening, on HAFA’s debut...

Federal regulators and economist have been warning the industry, the public, and the administration for a good many months now about the devastation a commercial real estate (CRE) meltdown could leave in its wake.On Tuesday, a gentleman personifying both factions of these red-flag-raisers – Willi...