Home prices here, I live outside St. Louis have never really went crazy like other places. I paid around $230,000 for my home in 2001, it's probably worth around $275,000 today. I don't think prices have dropped over the last few years but they never went up that fast to begin with. Here is a pic not long after the home was finished, around the 4th of july. Now I did sell some land for a very nice profit and lots seem to continue to rise in price.