Archive for June, 2007

Technology changes the way homes are bought and sold

John Williams and his team at Missouri Online Real Estate, based in Chesterfield, have given up their physical offices in favor of a virtual office, and walk-ins for “click-ins.” Almost 70 percent of the company’s business is generated through the Internet, Williams said, and agents use online document sharing, video messaging and BlackBerrys to communicate […]

$8 million project

A Springfield real estate developer is seeking Kirksville City Council approval for an $8 million project that will turn a historic downtown hotel into an apartment complex.
The developer would apply in October for housing and historic preservation tax credits awarded in December, and construction would start in the summer of 2008.
To meet requirements for the […]

Kansas City: Existing home sales recover, new home prices up

The Kansas City real estate market is divided by the Kansas-Missouri state line, but it functions as a single housing market.
The market seems to be recovering from a bottom it hit in January. The Kansas City metro area, with a population of about 1.97 million, never experienced the torrid sales pace that much of the […]

Foreclosures decrease in Missouri, Kansas

Missouri’s number of foreclosures ranks it No. 12 among all states in May, compared with No. 11 in April. The state had one foreclosure for every 674 households in May, compared with one foreclosure for every 588 households in April.
Missouri had 3,615 real estate foreclosures in May, down 13 percent from 4,147 foreclosures in April, […]