Tuesday, March 28, 2006

RealEstateJournal | St. Louis Left Untouched By the Housing Boom

RealEstateJournal St. Louis Left Untouched By the Housing Boom: "St. Louis Left Untouched
By the Housing Boom

By Maura Webber Sadovi
Special to The Wall Street Journal Online

The housing boom that has lifted median home prices in the U.S. by about 25% since 2003 seems to have left the St. Louis region behind. Housing prices in the heartland region that straddles both the Missouri and Illinois banks of the Mississippi River rose by about 13% through the fourth quarter of 2005 from 2003 levels, according to the National Association of Realtors."