This article  is very encouraging to me.  It says St. Louis ranks 6 in the nation in literacy, but it’s also discouraging because farther down it says we rank 50 out of 69 in education.  It seems like literacy and education should go hand in hand, but there is a disconnect.  This study was of [...]

Good news!!! Home prices in St. Louis rose 2.7% in 2nd Q of 2007!  Ok that’s slower than during the good ole days, but hey it’s better than most of the rest of the country!  A rise in mortgage rates in early 2006 is no doubt slowing the market.  Homes sales have declines and inventories [...]

You can still achieve the American Dream of home ownership.   I’ve been selling houses for 22 years.  What I’ve learned is that real estate like the stock market is cyclical.  Remember real estate is a long-term investment.   Typically most buyers aren’t buying a house to  flip it in one year.  It’s your home.  You are going [...]

Home prices in 10 major metropolitan areas in October were down 6.7% from a year earlier, according to Standard and Poor’s. That exceeded the previous record year to year decline of 6.3% in April 1991 when the economy was emerging from a recession. Most economist (my husband included although he’s a Financial Planner not economist, [...]

I’m such a visionary! ha! about 10 years ago (or whenever video cameras were coming around more) I thought it would be so cool, if our clients could come to the office and we’d have a way to do a virtual (I didn’t call it that then) tour of St. Louis…before we got in [...]

Another article says to shovel yhour salsa with a bag of blue tortilla chips because they pack a healthier punch than white ones.  The blues contain 20% more protein and 10% less starch and the starch they do contain is of the slowly digested kind which keeps blood-sugar level from roller-coastering which helps combat obesity [...]

Ok, here’s another thing I would never have guessed.  I know I’m not supposed to drink soda, so for the most part, I don’t.  But when I want to be really wild and crazy I have a diet coke…now get this…Drining dark-colored (aka my diet coke) cola increases the risk of kidney disease.  Investigators surveryed [...]

I’m starting to drink a glass of milk a night.  I always feel like I never get enough water and I know I’m supposed to drink more…so in order to better hydrate myself, I’m starting to drink more milk! that’s right…milk!  Just read an article that says the milk hydrates a body better than water [...]

Keller Williams Realty wins Stevie® Award for Real Estate Sales Organization of the Year

Keller Williams Realty was recently honored with a Stevie Award in the Best Run Sales Organization category as the Real Estate Sales Organization of the Year at the second annual Selling Power Sales Excellence Awards in Las Vegas, Nev.
The awards were [...]

Ladue home sales have dropped 11 percent through September 2007 vs. the same period in 2006. The median price over that time period, however, has rose $43,000 from $675,000 in 2006 to $718,000 so far this year.