To Val Sklarov, St. Louis officials giving a law firm all sorts of breaks to move a few blocks across downtown and pouring millions into fixing up an office building for them is basically un-American.

But is it legal?

That’s now a…

About one-sixth of St. Louisans owed more on their mortgage than their house is worth in the third quarter, according to new data out today from real estate tracking firm First American Core Logic.

That puts our region in significantly better…

New home construction in the St. Louis region - which had been soaring thanks to the $8,000 homebuyer tax credit - fell back to earth in October. But it’s still running ahead of this time last year.

Permits to build new…

A legal challenge to the state tax credits that are key to Paul McKee’s NorthSide project will get its day in court.

A Cole County judge today set a trial date of Jan. 27 for a lawsuit that challenges the state’s Distressed…

If low interest rates and the $8,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers were designed to spark home sales, they appear to have done just that in October.

Sales of existing homes in the St. Louis region jumped 27 percent for the…

As we mentioned in Sunday’s story on Stapleton, everything about the Denver airport redevelopment project is huge.

The size and scope. The parks. The population of young children. And the plans.

Especially “the Green Book,” the project’s bible of planning, still referred…

The housing slump turned into an opportunity for the St. Louis Mason Contractors Association, which recently completed a $2.1 million renovation and expansion of its headquarters on Big Bend Boulevard in Richmond Heights.

Richard Frisch Jr., the group’s president and owner…

Work is set to resume on the Park Pacific project downtown now that the developer, Lawrence Group, has gotten a commitment on a $56 million federally insured loan from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Lawrence Group says HUD…

I got a chance Thursday night to go to the Planet Money roadshow, which was in town at the Grandel Theater courtesy of St. Louis Public Radio (fka KWMU).

If you’re not familiar, Planet Money is a project of National Public Radio,…

Grace Hill Settlement House and Catholic Charities Housing Resource Center are getting an award–and the money that goes with it–this evening from Bank of America’s Neighborhood Excellence Initiative.

Both have been named 2009 St. Louis Neighborhood Builders through the bank’s Neighborhood…