New home construction increased for the third month in a row in September, according to figures from a local home builders association, the latest sign that the St. Louis-area real estate market has hit bottom and is slowly rebounding.

Permits to build…

Home sales in the St. Louis region jumped in September by the most in at least a year as first-time buyers snatched up deals with the $8,000 tax credit. But the median price continued to drift downward across most of…

Have you bought a house using the $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit? Have you sold one to someone who did? Or brokered a deal that depended on it?

Do you think it’s a boondoggle? A waste of money that’s artificially…

Sales of existing homes went up last month in St. Louis County and other parts of the region, perhaps providing more evidence that the housing slump is bottoming out.

But the increases were spotty and the head of the St. Louis…

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“If Timothy Geithner is as bad at handling the economy as he is…

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June was the strongest month for home sales in the St. Louis region since last summer, the latest sign that the slump in the local housing market may be easing.

Sales of existing homes fell 8.2 percent,…

The signs of a small, fragile spring rebound in the national housing market are being echoed here in St. Louis, too.

According to data compiled by the Post-Dispatch from local real estate services, May existing home sales in the 11-county metro area…

It appears spring has sprung in the region’s housing market, at least a little bit.

Existing home sales in April in the nine-county St. Louis area hit their highest level since October, and had their lightest year-over-year decline since that month,…

Is that a ray of sunshine poking through in the housing market? It is spring, after all.

We got some new data this morning on February existing home sales, both nationally and in the St. Louis area. And while things certainly…

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