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Economy Slow to Improve
Bonds and mortgage backed securities had a rocky week last week ending with a hammering on Friday believed to be caused by Bernanke’s comments that the economy continues to improve although it is happening very slowly. Bernanke also indicated that the Fed is ready to step in with more quantitative easing if necessary. Some experts [...]
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Upper End Brings on New Broker
Upper End Properties, one of Saint Louis’ rising real estate companies, is excited to announce the addition of one of St. Louis’ rising real estate stars; Joshua R Corson. For the past 10 years, Josh has been primarily engaged in real estate development and consulting. Most notable was his involvement in the development of The [...]
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How Bad Could it Really Be?
I was at lunch the other day with an executive from one of Saint Louis’s largest publicly held corporations who recently relocated to Saint Louis. We were talking about the economy and how much the landscape has changed in so many different industries. I knew he was eventually going to get around to real estate because that [...]
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Trouble for the Housing Market
The treasury will be borrowing about $102 billion worth of 2 yr, 5 yr and 7 yr notes or roughly $2 billion less than it borrowed last month. July existing home sales are due out and are expected to be down roughly 13% while new homes sales are actually expected to have increased 3%. Existing [...]
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Economy in Recovery???
At the Federal Open Market Committee Meeting last week, the Fed came about as close as it could to assessing the near future of the nation’s economy as declining by stating “The pace of recovery is likely to be more modest in the near term than had been anticipated.” During the meeting, the Fed indicated [...]
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Is Leasing on The Rise?
Buy or Lease is a question that is tossed round often when it comes to making a decision on a major purchase, like buying a car or even a house. What is the biggest advantage of buying over leasing? Ownership… Everyone wants this at some point in their lives. Being able to call something your [...]
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Increase in Mortgage Bonds Leads to Lower Interest Rates
Last week proved to be another great week for the mortgage bond markets.
30 year conventional bonds increased 69 basis points, 30 year FHA bonds increased 100 basis points and 15 year conventional bonds increased 84 basis points. Overall these bond price increases led to a decrease in mortgage rates of approximately 8 basis points on [...]Categories: Real Estate, Upper End Properties -
Upper End Properties Makes Marketing Move
Upper End Properties would like to welcome Sean Hadley, a Public Relations/Marketing consultant who is the founder of CKC Communications. Sean is well versed with the inner workings of the St. Louis media scene. He is a former network news producer, who also worked for KSDK.
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Sharing the Wealth: Upper End Properties Charitable Giving Program
At Upper End Properties, we consider our success and the success of the Saint Louis community one in the same. We strive to deliver our best service not only to those who are interesting in the real estate market, but also those who need us the most. Through our charitable giving program, we make donations [...]
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