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Once a year during the annual Big Big Tour, over 100 properties priced from $30,000 to well over $600,000 will be available to peruse and purchase in neighborhoods all across the city — from Carondelet to Walnut Park East, and Downtown to the Central West End. The Big Big Tour is an excellent opportunity for first-time homebuyers, empty-nesters, curiosity-seekers and anyone else interested in city living to take a peek into many of the city’s distinct neighborhoods.

Ever picture yourself in a loft? Curious about co-housing? Maybe dreaming of opening a business and want to live upstairs? Possibly you're energized to find a place and make it yours with a little passion and fortitude? Could be you've imagined living in a gorgeous renovated historic home or maybe you want a brand new house. Whatever finding that place called "home" means to you, you'll find it on the Big BIG Tour.

Best of all, the tour and informative Homebuyers’ Fair at the starting point are absolutely FREE and open to everyone. Arrive early to mingle, review various mortgage packages, talk to neighborhood organizations and look over other real estate-related services.

The Big Big Tour had its beginnings in 1999 when a local city-based realtor decided to share "the best-kept secret" of city living in a big way with the greater St. Louis community. There was huge potential in the properties available for sale and it was felt there must be an equally great demand for urban minded folks of all kinds to find quality residences in the unique metropolitan neighborhoods of the city.

Every year since then, the tour has grown both in properties to tour and in attendees. Hundreds of people take the tour every year and in 2005 we expect to have well over 100 homes, lofts, 2-family and 4-family residences in all styles and prices ranges from rehab projects and completely restored historic homes to new construction.