Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp on April 15, 2024

Real Estate property tax freezes have been a popular item around STL the past few months. Learn how St Charles County, St Louis County and the City have addressed this by seeing the direct links on my blog page. …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp on April 15, 2024

To mark my new Chesterfield listing, which sold this weekend with competing offers, I strolled the city of Chesterfield twice. It's big enough that 10 strolls will not cover it, but I have sold many homes here over the …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp on February 13, 2024

Warson Woods is one of those areas that sounds familiar, but you're a bit fuzzy on where exactly it is. Same here! So I walked the town the last couple weeks, and found it to be a quiet, well kept community. More of …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp on February 8, 2024

Curious on how the St Louis housing market fared in 2023? Gary has it all laid out for you on his blog, including the 7 zones that make up the MO side of the metro. How we did as a region, and how each submarket …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp on January 26, 2024

Much has been said recently on housing affordability, with the rising mortgage rates and home prices the last 2 years giving buyers a double whammy. The problem has worsened the last few years. However, one of the most …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp on January 10, 2024

I happen to love walking St Louis neighborhoods, I get some steps in and see so much more than driving it, learn some history, even chat with a neighbor or two. I hunt for unique coffee shops and pastries too!

A …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp, January 5, 2024

Economy ends 2023 strong and still adding lots of jobs! National unemployment average for 2023 at 3.6% equals 53 year low! Local unemployment was 3.4% in October and projected to drop to 3.0% in November. Don't always …

Posted by Amy Nahorski, September 19, 2023

BALLWIN, MO IS #10 ON THE TOP MARKET LIST FOR HOMEBUYERS IN THE U.S.!!

Ballwin’s homes are viewed around THREE times as much as the national average.

This is the prime time to sell your Ballwin property!! 

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp, June 20, 2023

According to a Gallup poll published last month in USA Today, more Americans continue to name real estate than stocks, gold, savings accounts/CDs, or bonds when asked which is the best long-term investment. Thirty-four …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp, May 11, 2023

Home prices are at an all-time high; and mortgage rates, while historically reasonable, are at or near a 15 year high. What's a buyer to do? Well if you are in STL, buy now! St Louis has once again been recognized as one of …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp, April 25, 2023

Last month, an article from MoneyWise came out showing that women have overtaken men in homeownership! I saw that coming years ago, as more of my single buyers were women than men. In addition, women on average live …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp, April 10, 2023

When I began selling homes 33 years ago, the written disclosure form was just beginning. The obligation for home sellers to disclose known defects is baked into Missouri laws, and this form is the avenue to do so. It has …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp, February 9, 2023

There has been some publicity lately about all the interior photos and floor plans floating around the internet after homes are sold and closed, namely on Zillow and other public real estate sites. There is a privacy …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp, January 24, 2023

Still reverberating from 2020, last year started off with another home-buying frenzy. The winter of 2021-22 never cooled off, only took a slight breather as a prelude to spring '22, which began in early February swarming …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp, January 23, 2023

Of course you should! A MoneyWise article in December points out the fallacy of real estate agents who share certain home listings only with each other, called Office Exclusives or pocket listings, while actively trying …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp , December 29, 2022

With so much being forecast on home prices these days, it is hard to know what the truth is. I have my opinions which I am about to share. No one knows for sure what will happen, but some things are pretty certain.

Firs…

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp, November 16, 2022

There have been numerous articles this year displaying Buyer's Remorse on the homes they bought during the pandemic. I linked one below to show, even though it is from May, that the reasons given are not regret about …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp on October 13, 2022

Is the American Dream fading? Fidelity National Financial just published a study, Generational Dream Homes - IPX1031 about Americans giving up on their Dream Home. 90% of us believe that owning a home is part of the …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp on September 23, 2022.

Everyone at some point, or many points, dreams of a home remodel, whether flooring and painting, baths, kitchen, basement or room addition. Where to begin with so many options, and so much variation in cost. But …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp on July 26, 2022.

I first ran across this concept in Honolulu 15 years ago during a visit, and thought it was novel, and boy the prices there must be really high (they were) if you could only afford part of a house. Haven't seen much …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp on July 7, 2022.

We have been working hard the last couple months to prepare for agents to join our team! I plan to hire 2 licensed agents by this fall, the first one thru a pilot program I custom designed for a newer, ambitious agent …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp on July 1, 2022.

Sorry, no Beverly Hillbillies here, but residential pools have sure jumped up in popularity! I noticed a marked increase, mainly in the mid to upper price ranges, of buyers looking for homes with pools, as the price and …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp on June 8, 2022

What is the state of real estate in STL these days? You hear all kinds of things. Here is what I ran yesterday in these towns, all prices, existing single family and condo:

Manchester has 8 homes available and 25 under …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp on May 9, 2022

We keep hearing about Wall Street firms and i-buyers grabbing all the housing inventory with cash purchases in today's housing market, blocking out homeowners and driving up prices. And that there is less inventory to meet …

Posted by Gary Hoeferkamp on February 15, 2022

As you can imagine, 2021 was another wild year in home sales! Our MLS stats showed a 12% home price increase, far and above any appreciation rates I can recall in the St Louis market. 2020 MLS stats said 8% increase …