Dawn Griffin Real Estate Group

Thinking about Moving to St. Louis? It helps to know a few local quirks before you arrive. St. Louis is a genuinely great place to call home, but it has its own geography, traditions, food obsessions, and neighborhood personality. Some of these things are practical. Some are just plain fun. All of them will help you feel more at home faster.

We live in one of the most underrated cities in America. St. Louis has world-class museums, extraordinary architecture, an incredible food scene (great news just this week!), and neighborhoods with more character ...

Forest Park history stretches back 150 years, to a single summer day in 1876 when an estimated 50,000 people gathered in St. Louis to celebrate the opening of what would become one of the country’s great urban parks. This year, that milestone anniversary is being marked with a brand-new book —

Buying a home in St. Louis right now isn’t the simplest decision — and most people considering a move already know that. Mortgage rates have hovered in the mid-6% range, inventory in many neighborhoods remains tight, and if you’re sitting on a home you bought at a lower rate a few years ago, the idea of giving that up can feel like a hard sell, even to yourself. These are rea...

If you’ve driven through Ladue or Kirkwood lately and noticed something different about the streetscape — a cul-de-sac full of wildflowers, Cardinal Flower blazing red in front of a public building, native grasses softening a neighborhood entrance — you’re not imagining it. Native landscaping is quietly transformi...