The median price of a home sold in St. Louis fell 4.4 percent in the third quarter, according to figures out this week from the National Association of Realtors.

The median - the point at which half of homes sold for more…

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…

As we noted in a short item in today’s paper, foreclosures in the St. Louis region jumped in September, according to a new batch of data from RealtyTrac.

The foreclosure-tracking service reports that the number of homes either set for a…

Is that a light? Down there, at the end of the tunnel?

It just might be.

Yes, maybe there are some signs of light at last in the deep dark hole that has swallowed up the local home-building industry for the last…

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…

It doesn’t look like the foreclosure problem in St. Louis will be going away any time soon.

If anything, it’s getting worse again.

We got some new data on foreclosures in the St. Louis region from RealtyTrac the other day, and what…

There’s a good post over on the New York Times’ Economix blog this morning from renowned housing economist Edward Glaeser on what we’ve learned about housing, a year after the big collapse. Glaeser’s post might be better titled “What we’ve re-learned”…

Chalk up one more forecaster who’s calling a bottom in the housing market.

The economists at IHS Global Insight issued their latest housing report last week, tracking data from the second quarter, and found that prices are falling at a much slower…

Permits to build new, single-family homes grew by 1 percent in July, a small year-over-year increase but the first since the summer of 2007.

There were 276 permits issued for construction of new single-family homes in seven Missouri counties tracked by…