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The Best Real Estate Agents in St. Louis

CITY LIFESTYLE'S TOP PICKS FOR 2020

Article by City Lifestyle

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How We Choose: Our Criteria for the Best Businesses

Looking for quality real estate agencies in the St. Louis area?

It’s not easy identifying the best local companies, even if you’ve lived in the same city your whole life.

Don’t worry, we got you covered.

Using metrics from major local directories like Google, Yelp and social channels, we’ve created an algorithm that tracks the top businesses in the STL area. Of course, businesses are more than just their online presence. That’s why we’ve also worked with our local networks to factor in offline characteristics like local reputation, quality of services and other anecdotal evidence.

Find and support your favorite local real estate agent with this exclusive guide today!

Garcia Properties

Garcia Properties sells real estate all over the St. Louis area, from Crestwood to Southampton. The group is a family of real estate professionals that is dedicated to helping you find the perfect home. They sell properties such as studio apartments, multifamily homes, and commercial properties. They also help potential renters find their ideal properties. Garcia Properties has an in-house mortgage team that can assist you with the financial part of purchasing a home. 

STL Lifestyles

STL Lifestyles helps homeowners new to the St. Louis area discover what the area offers. Realtors own STL Lifestyles and are associated with Garcia Properties. Joe and Pam Warmbrodt operate an independent website that helps new potential home purchasers get familiar with the St. Louis area. You can find available homes for sale on the website. They are experienced realtors and have home listings on their website as well. 

Keller Williams Realty

Keller Williams is a well-known national brand of realtors, and it has a dedicated team in the St. Louis area. Keller Williams is one of the top real estate realtor associations in the nation, so it’s no surprise that it has a team of some of the best real estate agents in the St. Louis area. Search their website for an available list of properties. You can find everything you’d want to know about a property on the Keller Williams website without having to spend hours searching other property listing websites. 

 Worth Clark Realty

Worth Clark Realty is one of the best virtual real estate agents in the country. There are over 500 licensed real estate brokers in their network and have sold over $2 billion in real estate properties. If virtual isn’t quite your style, they have offices you can visit throughout Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, and Colorado. Locally, they buy and sell properties in St. Louis, Lake of the Ozarks, Columbia, Jefferson City, and Kansas City. 

 Premier Realty Exclusive, Inc.

Premier Realty is dedicated to helping you buy or sell your next home. The group has implemented many ways to help you do so, now and in the future. You can attend Zoom meetings with a local realtor among other virtual services during the home buying and selling process. Premier Realty Exclusive has many property listings on its website and sells properties throughout the St. Louis area. Current listings show properties in St. Louis, Festus, O’Fallon, Ballwin, St. Charles, and Chesterfield. On the website, you can do an advanced search of listings that includes school district preferences, desired neighborhoods, and home size. 

 John Jackson Neighborhood Real Estate

John Jackson Neighborhood Real Estate specializes in buying and selling properties in the suburbs of St. Louis. By specializing in such a dedicated area of St. Louis, the agency can analyze current market trends in the area. Some of the neighborhoods its agents currently buy and sell real estate in include Kirkwood, Glendale, and Webster Groves. The agency's offices are located in Kirkwood. John Jackson Neighborhood Real Estate even has a mobile app where you can look up the latest and top real estate listings in the neighborhoods you’re looking at. 

 Clarity Street Realty

These top St. Louis real estate agents serve the greater metropolitan area. They strive to provide buyers and sellers with the resources they need to make the buying and selling process easy for potential homeowners. Clarity Street Realty has an integrated listing page on its website, which allows you to search the latest and newest homes for sale in the St. Louis area. You can even search by desired zip code, home size, number of baths, and more. The agency is associated with STL Buy and Sell, with many realtors selling for both Clarity and STL Buy and Sell. 

Dielmann Sotheby’s International Realty

Founded by a former top real estate agent in St. Louis, Andrew W. Dielmann, Dielmann Sotheby’s International Realty began in 2005 and has since grown into one of the leading St. Louis-area reality companies. Dielmann is associated with Sotheby’s International Realty, a global real estate firm with more than 800 offices in 61 countries worldwide. The agency is dedicated to providing quality services to all of its clients. 

Wood Brothers Realty

This independent real estate agency in St. Louis was started by two brothers, L.K. “Buddy” Wood III and Patrick Wood. Real estate was a family affair, and they carry on the tradition with their agency, which has won various awards as one of the top real estate agents in the greater St. Louis area. They offer residential and commercial buying and selling services. They also have several resources on their website, including home worth calculators and updated listings to help aid both buyers and sellers in the process.  

St. Louis Real Estate Society

St. Louis Real Estate Society provides real estate services to various people, including buyers, sellers, renters, and investors. The agency also offers services to landlords and tenants. For investors, the agency helps house flippers and renovators find the best properties in the area worth investing in so they can make transformations that are beautiful and profitable. St. Louis Real Estate Society also helps renters find their next property. For landlords, the group offers property management services—a unique feature that sets this company apart from other top real estate agencies in the St. Louis area. 

Fischer & Frichtel Homes

F & F Homes has served the residents of St. Louis and St. Charles counties since 1945. It is a customized home builder company, helping new homeowners design and construct their dream home. Fischer & Frichtel Homes builds homes in state-of-the-art neighborhoods in Chesterfield, Lake St. Louis, O’Fallon, St. Charles, Wildwood, and more! It is an award-winning homebuilder and one of the most trusted names in new home construction in the St. Louis area. Visit the company's website to take a 3D tour of some of its latest properties. 

Dawn Griffin Real Estate Group

The team at Dawn Griffin Real Estate has won the Client Satisfaction Award for St. Louis Magazine several years in a row. The group acts as a guide to help both buyers and sellers along the home selling process. Its agents use integrated tools and research to help you make the best decisions while placing an offer and negotiating the purchase or sale of your home. Dawn Griffin Real Estate Group serves many different areas of the St. Louis metropolitan area.

Reconnect Real Estate

Reconnect Real Estate offers matches renters with their next home and offers property management and home selling and buying services to people in St. Louis. The agency provides various services to help make the process of renting and managing a property quick and easy for both renters and landlords. Reconnect also offers updated rental listings in addition to home sale listings. The agency is owned by Stephen Prane, a real estate agent who’s been practicing since 2002. 

 Janet McAfee Real Estate

Janet McAfee’s offices are located in Laude. The agency are one of the top independent real estate agencies in St. Louis and specializes in both residential and luxury home sales in St. Louis. Janet McAffee offers detailed home listings categorized by St. Louis neighborhoods such as Clayton, Crestwood, and Creve Coeur. The agency mainly focuses on home sales and purchases in central St. Louis County. With familiarity with these particular neighborhoods, Janet McAfee helps buyers find their ideal living arrangements. 

Berkshire Hathaway Home Services

This top real estate agency in St. Louis goes beyond the home buying and selling process. It is a full-service agency that assists buyers and sellers in every aspect of their home sale. Services include mortgage, title, property management, and home warranties. Berkshire Hathaway also offers services to assist new homebuyers in relocating to the St. Louis area. The company also works with a third-party service provider, One Source Solutions, that helps make the process of installing the utilities and services your home needs after a purchase. 

Lombardo Homes

Lombardo Homes sells in both Missouri and Michigan. It is a top home builder of desirable communities in both states. The company has built homes since 1961 and is a family-owned builder. On Lombardo Homes' website, you can search for move-in ready homes or use tools to design your dream home. 

 STL Real Estate

STL is made up of native St. Louis real estate agents who simply love the area and want to share it with the world. Taylor Belmore founded the agency and is dedicated to helping home buyers and sellers walk through the buying and selling process together. She’s a second-generation real estate agent, inspired by her father, one of the area’s leading real estate brokers.

The Montgomery Team

The Montgomery Team is associated with the national brokerage firm Coldwell Banker. It’s run by partners Gordon Montgomery and Kelley Lamm-Montgomery. They are the publishers of Chesterfield Lifestyle and Clayton Lifestyle Magazines as just one way to show how they are dedicated to helping new homeowners learn about the area. They sell a wide variety of properties, from single-family homes to multi-million-dollar mansions. 

 Develop STL Real Estate

 This agency offers many real estate-related services, from property investment and construction to commercial rental listings. On the company's website, you can browse properties for sale, for rent, and those under construction. The agency even provides a listing of short-term nightly rentals in the St. Louis area. Develop STL Real Estate also offers remodeling services to give your home the renovation you’ve always dreamed of. The group has won many awards in the area and is a renowned real estate agency in St. Louis. 

 St. Louis Property Investments

Also referred to as Invest Saint Louis, this agency is dedicated to investing in the St. Louis area. The agency specializes in single-family and commercial investment properties. St. Louis Property Investments helps breathe new life into old properties to make them the ideal home for new homeowners. The agency also provides free home evaluations, so you can get the best price for your investment real estate property. 

McBride Homes

Noted as one of the top home builders in Missouri, McBride Homes builds new construction single- and multi-family estates all over Missouri, including the St. Louis area. The company has 75 years of experience, making it one of the best in the business. McBride Homes offers a wide variety of properties to fit many budgets for new homeowners. The company also has many communities with move-in ready homes in the St. Louis area.

Coldwell Banker Gundaker

Coldwell Banker is one of the most well-known real estate agencies in the nation. It has several agents in the St. Louis area, including Gundaker. Gundaker's offices are located in the heart of St. Louis on Hampton Avenue. Gundaker serves a wide variety of St. Louis neighborhoods, including Brentwood, Clayton, Pasadena Hills, Webster Groves, Sappington, Crestwood, and Richmond Heights. 

Ridgemoor Investments

Ridgemoor has been investing in St. Louis properties since 1996. It is a property buyer, so you can sell your property directly to Ridgemoor. The company provides quick and easy home sales so sellers don’t have to worry about the hassle of showing their home or a lengthy selling process.  

Flower and Fendler Homes

Flower and Fendler Homes is a custom home builder in the St. Louis area, as well as a residential land developer. It is an established part of the community, having over 30 years of experience constructing new homes. Flower and Fendler Homes has communities in Manchester, Ballwin, Fenton, and Eureka. 

Flipping STL

Flipping STL specializes in investing in properties to help home flippers make the right choice when choosing to flip a home. The company helps real estate investors find suitable properties that can easily be renovated and sold to turn a profit quickly. 

McKelvey Homes 

McKelvey Homes has been constructing new homes since 1898, making it the oldest homebuilder in Missouri. It has six communities located in the St. Louis area, including Ellisville, St. Charles, Chesterfield, O’Fallon, and Lake St. Louis. McKelvey Homes also has move-in ready homes, or you can construct your new property from scratch. 

St. Louis Living Real Estate 

This real estate broker buys and sells properties in the many areas surrounding St. Louis. St. Louis Living Real Estate's properties are categorized into three main areas of St. Louis: Suburban Cities, Central Corridor, and City Living. The agency offers various resources on its website to aid buyers and sellers through the homeownership process. 

Prestige Custom Homes

Prestige is owned by husband and wife duo JR and Tanya Mayer. JR is a third-generation home builder, while Tanya has an eye for design for interior spaces. They have three custom-built home communities outside St. Louis in Chesterfield, Ballwin, and Oakville. They offer a variety of floor plans for their custom-built homes so you can have the home you’ve always dreamed of. 

Daniel B. Feinberg Real Estate Co.

Daniel B. Feinberg is a real estate agent who’s been a part of the real estate industry since 1963. His real estate company specializes in residential and commercial real estate properties in St. Louis. They work with home buyers and sellers in the central corridor of St. Louis City and County. He leads a team of full-time professional real estate agents that know the St. Louis neighborhoods to help you find the best location for your next home. 

Real Estate Solutions

Lead by Nate K. Johnson, Real Estate Solutions is one of the premier real estate brokers in St. Louis. This real estate broker has won many awards, including being named one of the Top 25 Businesses in St. Louis by the St. Louis American Foundation three years running.

The Mark & Kim Team

This husband-and-wife team understands that buying or selling a home is an emotional process, but Mark and Kim Johnson are there to guide their clients through the process with clear and honest communication. They develop a customized process for each of their clients because each of client and home is unique. Mark and Kim use a funnel system when searching for your next home to ensure that you don't miss your dream home. With Mark and Kim, you can feel confident that you made the right decision when buying or selling a home.

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