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The August Group Inc. is your source for dependable Real Estate Appraisals in Saint Louis City and the following counties in Missouri; St. Louis, Franklin, Jefferson, Warren, Lincoln, St. Charles and St. Francois

Whether it's an older home or luxurious new construction, Jeffrey Noyes' experience and hours of study as licensed appraiser make him qualified to provide home valuations in Saint Louis City, St. Louis, Franklin, Jefferson, Warren, Lincoln, St. Charles and St. Francois County for clients ranging from national mortgage companies to local lenders or individual businesses and consumers.

When an appraisal of real estate in or around St Louis Missouri is needed, count on Jeffrey Noyes of The August Group Inc. for an accurate estimate of market value.  As a liscenced appraiser with years of experience, Jeffrey can get you from start to finish with professionalism and in a timely manner. Listed below are just some of the areas of expertiese we deal with every day here at the August Group Inc.
   
Loan originators requiring an experienced Saint Louis County appraiser
Increasing your HELOC (Home Equity Line of Credit)
Employee relocation appraisals
Picking the right listing price for your property
A dependable expert witness for court cases involving the value of a home in or around St Louis
Appraisal review: Getting a second opinion on a past appraisal in or around St Louis, Missouri
Tax Challenges (reducing property taxes) if you live in an area where prices have declined
Bankruptcy cases where the market value of a home in or around St Louis, Missouri is relevant
Retrospective home valuations
Needing an accurate estimate of a home's square footage. We can do it quickly and at a reasonable price!
Divorce settlements when the value of the shared home is needed
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Uneventful Day, But That"s a Victory These Days
10/15/2024 3:34 PM
Uneventful Day, But That"s a Victory These Days Last week"s bond market action offered some glimmers of hope that the most recent jobs report wouldn"t cause ongoing momentum toward higher rates, but yields nonetheless hit their highest levels on Thu/Fri.  Today is a victory in that context as bonds mov...Read More
 
Mortgage Rates Sideways to Slightly Lower
10/15/2024 3:03 PM
The average mortgage lender is quoting rates that are just a fraction of a hair lower today compared to last Friday.  Lenders were either closed or otherwise not able to update rates yesterday due to the Federal holiday.  Anything other than "higher" is a victory recently.  Rate jumped at the 2nd fastest pace of the year after the j...Read More
 
Broker, Correspondent, Insurance, Fee Collection Tools; Catastrophes and Disasters Hit Lenders and Servicers
10/15/2024 10:44 AM
Some things aren’t what they seem to be. What about places… what if you moved and your new home wasn’t how it originally seemed to be? There is a trend among today’s seniors, where retirees in Florida and other traditional retirement states, are pressing further north, relocating, or establishing a second home in the Southern states like Tennessee ...Read More
 
Stronger Start to Holiday-Shortened Week
10/15/2024 8:36 AM
Bonds moved into stronger territory over the 3 day weekend in a move largely attributed to de-escalation in the Middle East and the sharp drop in oil prices that followed. Oil and bonds are far from perfectly correlated, but big moves in the former often get at least some attention from the latter. Gains were modest by the start of trading today bu...Read More
 
Boring Week For Bonds and Next Week Isn"t Much More Promising
10/11/2024 2:58 PM
Boring Week and Next Week Isn"t Much More Promising It"s always a bit jarring to go from something like last Friday"s jobs report response to a subsequent week with very little movement, but in the grand scheme of things, it may as well have been a 9 day weekend.  Actually, make that a 10 day weekend w...Read More
 
Mortgage Rates Side-Step Into Holiday Weekend
10/11/2024 2:28 PM
While this week"s rates were substantially higher than most of last week"s, if we remove a few flashes of volatility,  the average lender stayed very close to Monday morning"s levels.  Wednesday afternoon and Thursday mid-day definitely saw multiple negative reprices, but in each case, the bond market recovered enough to limit the volatil...Read More
 
Loan Sale and Purchase Platform, HELOC, Automated Servicing Call Tools; November Events; Interview with Figure
10/11/2024 10:48 AM
Preparing for the next hurricane in Florida? Or Louisiana? Or Texas? Call this really smart or really humorous, it’s up to you. (And no, I don’t know how it fared.) We do, however, know how lenders and vendors are faring. Sure, headlines blared that rates were going down, but as we all know they went up after the Fed’s 50 basis point cut a few week...Read More
 
No Whammies in The Data
10/11/2024 10:14 AM
When it comes to economic data with any real significance, today only offered two reports: PPI and Consumer Sentiment.  Neither have an especially stunning pedigree of market movement capability although both have inspired a decent amount of volatility on many occasions.  Today is not one of those occasions.  Both have come and gone....Read More
 
Bonds Turn Green Despite Plenty of Volatility
10/10/2024 3:53 PM
Bonds Turn Green Despite Plenty of Volatility It was touch and go in the mid-day hours as early stability (modest gains, even) gave way to steady selling.  Headlines from Fed"s Bostic (he"s not sure they"ll need to cut again in Nov) caused yields to pop to the highs of the day just before the 30yr bond...Read More
 
Here"s What"s Really Going on With Mortgage Rates This Week
10/10/2024 2:59 PM
We can appreciate that the daunting task of determining what "the" actual mortgage rate may be at any given moment.  The word "the" is singled out in the previous sentence because there isn"t one, perfect, singular, "going rate" for a mortgage.  There"s a bell curve with most lenders near the center and a few outliers at the margins. ...Read More