Buying Property through Saint Louis Foreclosure Listings – Benefits and How to Search

Saint Louis is an important city in American state of Missouri. Planning to purchase a home here will be wise decision and looking for online Saint Louis Foreclosure Listings would be a wiser decision as you may buy a foreclosure home at a 10% to 50% discount on the real estate market price.


There is an immediate equity saving benefit in buying a Saint Louis foreclosure listings property. Other benefits of buying a foreclosure property especially in Saint Louis are like


•    Tax credits and Tax Abatement – It is a great city to assist in business expansion like offering Tax rebate etc. which make business expansion viable.

•    Saint Louis Development Council (SLDC) - There are certain programs from SLDC which help in lowering the down payment and interest rate. These programs do not replace bank financing rather they are a non-conventional and help bridge the gap between conventional financing.

•    Community Development Administration (CDA) of Saint Louis – It maintains and revitalizes the areas abandoned and run down properties, develops vacant land to create new construction venues for low and moderate income groups.

•    Employee Retirement System in this city – It is the amount of compensation based on the social security act. The monthly annual pension is calculated as sum of 1.30% of Final Average Compensation up to Benefit Compensation base and 2.05% of Final Average Compensation above the Benefit Compensation base.

•    Unemployment Benefits – The state of Missouri provides additional stimulus to extend unemployment benefits and thus people in its city are safe in some way.

•    Saint Louis city Parks – There are scenic city parks like Carondelet Park, Fairground Park, and O’Fallon Park in the city which would add a spice to your life.

•    Museums – Several museums in the city like Earthways Center, National Great Rivers Museum and City museum add to the value of the city.


How to search
Searching the listings online is not an arduous task; there would be a U.S. map with all 50 states marked on it which are click able in the map.


Clicking on a particular State leads to particular counties in that area which subsequently leads to all cities of that area and all the foreclosure properties in that county or city are listed with photograph, zip code, price tag etc. in the search web page.


Properties are generally listed in different categories of foreclosures, preforeclosures and auctions section. You will get details of owners in case of foreclosures and preforeclosures and in the case of auctions you may find the date and time of auction.


Apart from online Saint Louis Foreclosure Listings other modes of search could be through real estate agents, newspaper classifieds, distributing fliers of willingness to purchase, looking through public notices in country courthouses and checking banks and government foreclosure listings.