T'was the weekend before Christmas, and all through the St. Louis Real Estate Market buyers and sellers alike seem to be focusing on the Holidays and putting their home buying and selling process as a second priority.
As usual at this time of year, we are seeing active listings and
The St. Louis Real Estate Market this week has our pending ratio ( homes accepting contracts) inching up slightly to 10.47 percent from last week's 10.04 percent. When you look at the segment of the market that moves St. Louis Real Estate; price ranges from $100,000 to $249,999; the pending ratios are continuing well above the average pending ratio.
Buyer activity is remaining fairly stable this month, as seller activity continues to decline. It's not unusual that these specific price ranges are doing well, as these are
The St. Louis Real Estate Market this week gives evidence as to why sellers ought to stay in the marketplace and why buyers ought to be buying right now.
Active listings have dropped by 234 this week, followed by accepted contracts (pendings) only dropping by 10. This has caused our pending ratio to bump up a bit to 10.04 percent. Buyer activity has not declined nearly as much as seller activity.
Our average listing price has remained fairly stable for the last several months, while
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The St. Louis Real Estate Market this week continues to slow as we head into Holiday season with 100+ less active listings, almost 50 less accepted contracts and our pending ratio dropping below 10 percent to 9.76 percent. This is the lowest pending ratio we've recorded since we started tracking these statistics
If you're about to sell your home and your RE agent tells you to repaint the house white. . . you have to read this first.
White Walls....NOT the New Neutral!
Recently while providing Home Sellers with Staging Consultations, I experienced very similar situations. I walked into houses that are for sale and all of the walls were white or off white. In all of these cases, the Home Sellers told me that they had various colors of walls and that their Realtor told them to paint all of the walls white. They all told me that the Realtors suggested this because the rooms will look bigger, brighter, and cleaner...and that white was a "neutral color".
In my previous article, "Color It Cozy" I discussed how important interior wall color is when selling a house.
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