In the past 30 days alone, 198 new tours have been added to the map, with 46 of those being Continue Reading →]]> The St. Louis metro area’s home tour video catalogue has reached an impressive 8,643 tours as of September 9, 2026, providing potential homebuyers with a comprehensive look at properties across 311 markets. Video walkthroughs have become an invaluable tool for buyers, offering a more detailed perspective than traditional photographs. They allow viewers to see how rooms connect, assess the steepness of stairs, and gauge the true size of spaces, all of which are crucial elements when considering a home purchase.

In the past 30 days alone, 198 new tours have been added to the map, with 46 of those being uploaded in just the last week. Among the markets adding the most tours, St. Louis, MO, stands out with 72 new additions. Other active markets include Saint Charles, MO, with 12 new tours, and Florissant, MO, which has added 7 new video tours. These additions reflect a growing interest in providing potential buyers with as much information as possible to aid in their decision-making process.

While some of these video tours feature homes that are still available, many showcase properties that have already been sold. These sold tours remain valuable as they offer insights into what certain streets and neighborhoods actually look like inside, helping buyers get a feel for the area even if the specific property is no longer on the market.

Among the most viewed tours, 1410 Fournier Dr in Crestwood, MO, leads with 187,422 views. Other popular tours include 1225 Woodside Drive in Arnold, MO, with 35,126 views, and 3537 Crittenden St in St. Louis, MO, with 32,952 views. These figures highlight the strong interest in virtual home tours and the convenience they offer to prospective buyers.

Whether you’re actively searching for a new home or simply exploring neighborhoods, the St. Louis home tour video map provides a wealth of information. We invite you to search the map by address to discover more about the properties that interest you.

Newest St. Louis area tours

• 2059 Del Rio Dr in Arnold, MO (Sep 9)
• 7 Hillside Court in Wentzville, MO (Sep 9)
• 2701 Sibley Street in St Charles, MO (Sep 9)
• 13507 Coliseum Drive in Chesterfield, MO (Sep 8)
• 4030 Austin Drive in Saint Charles, MO (Sep 8)
• 783 N Mason Road in St Louis, MO (Sep 8)

Markets adding the most tours

• St Louis, MO: 72 new tours in the last 30 days
• Saint Charles, MO: 12 new tours in the last 30 days
• Florissant, MO: 7 new tours in the last 30 days
• Robertsville, MO: 6 new tours in the last 30 days
• St Peters, MO: 6 new tours in the last 30 days
• St Charles, MO: 6 new tours in the last 30 days

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The number of home sales also saw a slight increase, with 699 homes sold in August 2026, a 2.04% rise from the 685 Continue Reading →]]> The Metro East real estate market continues to show dynamic changes as of September 2026. In August, homes sold for a median price of $216,000, marking a 5.37% increase from the previous year when the median was $205,000. However, this also represents an 8.09% decrease from July 2026’s median sold price of $235,000. The median list price in August 2026 was $230,000, up 6.98% from $215,000 in August 2025, indicating a robust demand in the market.

The number of home sales also saw a slight increase, with 699 homes sold in August 2026, a 2.04% rise from the 685 homes sold in August 2025. These figures, illustrated in the chart below, highlight the evolving dynamics of the Metro East real estate market. The chart is available exclusively from MORE, REALTORS®, providing valuable insights for those interested in the St. Louis, MO real estate market and related trends.

The market also saw an uptick in activity, with 526 homes sold in August 2026, a 7.57% increase compared to the 489 homes sold in August 2025. For Continue Reading →]]> The St. Charles County real estate market experienced notable changes in August 2026. Homes sold for a median price of $370,000, marking a 2.78% increase from the same period last year when the median price was $360,000. However, this figure represents a 4.78% decrease from July 2026’s median sold price of $388,560. Meanwhile, the median list price in August 2026 was $409,900, reflecting a significant 10.26% rise from $371,750 in August 2025.

The market also saw an uptick in activity, with 526 homes sold in August 2026, a 7.57% increase compared to the 489 homes sold in August 2025. For a detailed visual representation of these trends, refer to the chart below, available exclusively from MORE, REALTORS®. This data underscores the dynamic nature of the St. Charles County real estate market, providing valuable insights for potential buyers and sellers.

In terms of sales volume, there were 3,204 home sales in the St. Louis MSA in August 2026, a decrease of 2.79% from the Continue Reading →]]> The St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) real estate market showed notable trends in August 2026. Homes sold for a median price of $305,000, marking an increase of 6.09% from August 2025 when the median price was $287,500. However, this figure represents a slight decrease of 1.61% compared to July 2026, where the median sold price was $310,000. The median list price in August 2026 was $299,900, reflecting a 3.41% rise from $290,000 in August 2025.

In terms of sales volume, there were 3,204 home sales in the St. Louis MSA in August 2026, a decrease of 2.79% from the 3,296 homes sold in August 2025. These figures indicate a dynamic market with rising prices yet a slight decline in sales activity. For a detailed visual representation of these trends, refer to the chart below, available exclusively from MORE, REALTORS®. This data provides valuable insights for those interested in the St. Louis real estate market, ensuring informed decisions for buyers, sellers, and investors alike.

Years ago, some visitors posed for a photograph in front of the staircase. When they looked at the picture later, they noticed what appeared to be an elderly woman in period clothing near the top. The photo eventually appeared on social media with quite a discovery: They had photographed a ghost.

Which would have been pretty exciting, except Continue Reading →]]> Other than my own home, there aren’t many houses where I’ve spent more time than the Lemp Mansion. Long before I became a Realtor, I was an actress, and one of my regular weekend gigs was performing dinner theater there.

Years ago, some visitors posed for a photograph in front of the staircase. When they looked at the picture later, they noticed what appeared to be an elderly woman in period clothing near the top. The photo eventually appeared on social media with quite a discovery: They had photographed a ghost.

Which would have been pretty exciting, except I knew the ghost. Her name was Angie, and she was an actress waiting for her cue.

Stories like that are part of what I remember about working at the Lemp. I knew the Mansion not just as a historic house or a supposedly haunted one, but as a workplace. Now it’s for sale for $3.9 million, and I’m looking at the same building as a Realtor. That changes the questions.

I remember the two radiators warming you as you came through the front door on a winter night, the painted-cloud ceiling in one of the dining rooms, and a third-floor dressing room where members of the “Ghost Hunters” television crew once unexpectedly walked in carrying equipment I couldn’t begin to identify. Let me tell you, nothing makes you wish you could transport yourself through a wall faster than standing half-dressed in front of a television crew you weren’t expecting.

But the question I find myself asking now isn’t whether the Lemp Mansion is haunted. It’s this: What exactly are you buying when you buy the Lemp Mansion? On paper, that question is easy to answer. According to the listing agent, $3.9 million buys the Mansion, grounds and carriage house, along with the furnishings, equipment and restaurant items. But the Lemp Mansion comes with quite a bit that won’t appear on a bill of sale.

I knew the result from the inside. Dinner guests generally remained downstairs, while the upper floors were primarily the territory of inn guests, actors and staff. On particularly busy nights, I would perch on an antique couch near the staircase, watching several dining rooms and pacing my entrances while trying to stay out of the way of servers. Guests walking past would occasionally make it their mission to get me to break character.

My dressing room was on the third floor in a space that felt more like an unfinished attic, shared with supplies and a furnace. A narrow back staircase wound from floor to floor and eventually took us down to the basement and kitchen.

Tucked toward the back of the building was one of my favorite places, the Lemp Museum. Its curator, Marcia Stamm, knew an astonishing amount about the Lemps and St. Louis brewing history. Between acts, I would wander back there and pepper her with questions about the Lemp, Falstaff and Griesedieck families and breweries.

History wasn’t confined to the museum. Portraits put faces to the people in the stories, and Lemp family artifacts and clothing were displayed throughout the house. One enormous walk-in vault, the kind of thing you expect in a bank rather than a private home, had been converted into the owners’ office. I later learned it was one of three large vaults the Lemp family had built to house an extensive art collection.

The tunnels were another part of the building that fascinated people, and they aren’t simply ghost lore. The Mansion’s history describes a natural cavern beneath the property containing an auditorium, ballroom and swimming pool, once accessible through a tunnel from the basement. Another tunnel connected the house with the brewery. Both are now sealed. When I worked there, a bar occupied what we understood to have been one of the old tunnel entrances.

All of those physical things belong to the property. What people have made of them over the years is harder to categorize.

I saw that firsthand during one performance when a woman became increasingly agitated. She was convinced spirits were in the room and eventually became disruptive enough that I broke character and asked if she was all right. She pointed toward ribbons hanging in front of the windows. They were moving, and she was certain the ghosts were upset.

I showed her that air coming through the window was moving the ribbons. Once she understood what she was seeing, she relaxed. I was perhaps less diplomatic than I would be today.

“Right, because if I were a 100-year-old ghost, I’d go to the window and wiggle a ribbon. I can think of a lot more interesting things to do if I were a ghost. Can’t you?”

One of the benefits of being an actor is that occasionally you can get away with acting out.

I’m not telling that story to prove the Lemp Mansion isn’t haunted, any more than I would offer someone else’s unexplained experience as proof that it is. Whether ghosts exist isn’t really the interesting real estate question. The fact that people believe they might be there is.

People have paid to investigate the Mansion for paranormal activity, stay overnight, hear its history and experience a place whose reputation extends far beyond its architecture. Whatever one believes about ghosts, those stories are part of the experience people associate with the Lemp Mansion.

That raises a slightly ridiculous but surprisingly legitimate question: Can ghosts be goodwill?

Not literally. Goodwill is a real concept in business valuation. The IRS defines it in terms of expected continued customer patronage tied to a business’s name, reputation or other factors. At the Lemp Mansion, it becomes difficult to figure out where the physical property stops and that intangible value begins.

The building itself offers a clue. A private home became a boarding house and eventually a place where people ate dinner, celebrated weddings, slept overnight, watched actors murder one another for entertainment and wandered around looking for people who had actually been dead for a century. Its survival has depended, at least in part, on people continuing to find reasons to come through the door.

When I sat on that antique couch waiting for my cue, I wasn’t thinking about historic preservation or adaptive reuse. I was watching dining rooms, trying to stay out of the servers’ way and wondering whether the guest approaching me was about to try to make me break character. I was just working, but it turned out to be a remarkably good seat from which to watch an old building earn its living.

Nearly 50 years ago, Richard Pointer bought a building that had become a boarding house and gave it another life. What the Pointer family created wasn’t simply a way to tour an old Lemp home. They made the house itself an experience, one where history, architecture, food, theater, celebrations and a healthy dose of ghost lore became difficult to separate from one another. 

That’s what makes this sale so interesting to me. A buyer can purchase the Mansion, the grounds, the furniture and everything else included in the $3.9 million offering. What can’t be transferred quite so neatly is the experience people have come to associate with the place.

Without that, the Lemp Mansion is still an extraordinary historic house with an extraordinary St. Louis history. But is it still a destination?

For the next owner, that may be the more important question.

Karen Moeller
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About the Author:
Karen Moeller is a St. Louis area REALTOR® with MORE, REALTORS® and a regular contributor to St. Louis Real Estate News, helping clients make informed, data-driven decisions.

The increase in rates is having a notable impact on Continue Reading →]]> In September 2026, St. Louis homebuyers and sellers are witnessing a consistent upward trend in mortgage rates, with the 30-year fixed rate now standing at 6.91%, marking a modest increase of 0.02% from the previous rates. This rise continues the trend of rates staying well above the 6.5% threshold, impacting the affordability and decision-making processes for prospective homebuyers. The 15-year fixed rate has also seen a more significant jump, increasing by 0.11% to reach 6.50%. These changes illustrate a broader trend of rising interest rates in the current economic climate.

The increase in rates is having a notable impact on the St. Louis real estate market. Buyers are faced with higher monthly payments, which might deter some from entering the market or push them to consider alternative financing options or adjustable-rate mortgages. Sellers might experience a slowdown in demand as potential buyers reassess their budgets. The 30-year Jumbo rate has also reached 7.00%, indicating that larger loans are becoming considerably more expensive.

For a detailed view of how these rates compare historically, you can refer to the chart button below. It provides a comprehensive look at the fluctuations over recent months. As always, this information is brought to you by MORE, REALTORS®, dedicated to keeping you informed about the latest developments in St. Louis’s mortgage landscape.

*Rates shown are national averages from Mortgage News Daily’s Rate Index and are updated as of September 3, 2026. Individual rates may vary based on factors including loan amount, down payment, credit score, property type, occupancy status, and market conditions. Contact a licensed mortgage professional for personalized rate quotes.

Despite the decrease in prices, the market saw an uptick in activity, with 306 home sales in July 2026, a 16.79% increase from the 262 sales recorded in July 2025. These figures indicate a dynamic market Continue Reading →]]> The St. Louis City real estate market experienced notable shifts in July 2026. Homes sold for a median price of $235,000, marking a 5.51% decrease from July 2025’s median of $248,700. This also represents a 9.62% drop from June 2026, when the median sold price was $260,000. Concurrently, the median list price in July 2026 was $215,000, down 9.66% from $238,000 in July 2025.

Despite the decrease in prices, the market saw an uptick in activity, with 306 home sales in July 2026, a 16.79% increase from the 262 sales recorded in July 2025. These figures indicate a dynamic market environment, with more buyers entering the scene despite declining prices. The chart below, available exclusively from MORE, REALTORS®, provides a detailed visual representation of these trends, offering valuable insights into the current state of the St. Louis City real estate market.

For St. Louis buyers, these rising rates mean higher borrowing costs, which could impact affordability and purchasing power. Sellers might see a slowdown in buyer Continue Reading →]]> In August 2026, St. Louis homebuyers face a challenging market as mortgage rates continue their upward trajectory. The 30-year fixed mortgage rate has nudged up to 6.75%, marking a slight increase of 0.01% from previous levels. Similarly, the 15-year fixed rate has risen to 6.32%, also climbing by 0.01%. This consistent upward trend is reflected across other loan categories, including the 30-year FHA and Jumbo rates, which further highlights the mounting pressure on potential homeowners.

For St. Louis buyers, these rising rates mean higher borrowing costs, which could impact affordability and purchasing power. Sellers might see a slowdown in buyer interest as some prospective homeowners are priced out or choose to delay their purchases in hopes of more favorable conditions. The current rates are among the highest seen in recent years, placing additional emphasis on strategic planning for both buyers and sellers in the real estate market.

To understand how today’s rates compare historically, interested parties can view the chart button below for a comprehensive overview. This analysis is brought to you by MORE, REALTORS®, providing essential insights into the St. Louis mortgage landscape for informed decision-making. With rates on the rise, staying informed is more critical than ever for those navigating the housing market.

*Rates shown are national averages from Mortgage News Daily’s Rate Index and are updated as of August 27, 2026. Individual rates may vary based on factors including loan amount, down payment, credit score, property type, occupancy status, and market conditions. Contact a licensed mortgage professional for personalized rate quotes.

This matters because a lot of people still do not realize Continue Reading →]]> For years, radioactive waste tied to the Manhattan Project has been a source of concern for many families in the St. Louis area. Now it is also a compensation issue, and for some people, a very real one. Under the expanded Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, or RECA, some residents in parts of the St. Louis region may already qualify for federal compensation if they lived, worked, or went to school in certain ZIP codes for at least two years after January 1, 1949, and later developed a covered illness.

This matters because a lot of people still do not realize this is no longer just a proposal or a political talking point. It is active. Claims can be filed now. For eligible living claimants, compensation may be the greater of $50,000 or documented unreimbursed out of pocket medical expenses related to the covered illness. For deceased individuals, surviving spouses or children may also be eligible for compensation under the current law. The current filing deadline is December 31, 2027, so this is something families who may qualify should not put off.

There is also a new bill in Congress that could expand eligibility even further. That proposal would add more St. Louis ZIP codes, more covered illnesses, and higher compensation, but it is important to remember that part is not law yet. The current law is what matters today, and anyone who thinks they may qualify should focus first on whether they meet the existing requirements and start gathering the records they may need.

This is not a real estate story in the traditional sense, but it is absolutely a community story, and community issues affect real estate. Families buying, selling, inheriting, or simply trying to stay in their homes are often also dealing with health issues, legal questions, and the financial strain that comes with both. When something like this has the potential to impact thousands of local residents, it is worth understanding.

To make it easier, I put together a simple consumer guide that breaks down who may qualify now, what the current ZIP codes are, what illnesses are covered, what compensation may be available, and what expansion has been proposed. You can view that guide below.