If the St. Louis housing market feels increasingly frenetic, that's not just in your head: the metro area's home sales just scored No. 1 in the nation on two different metrics.In the 90-plus cities surveyed in Redfin's Housing Market Tracker, St. Louis showed the biggest year-over-year growth in two areas: the number of home sales (up 32.8 percent from this time last year) and the number of homes for sale (up 24.6 percent from last year).
Further proof those experts who said St. Louis would be one of the nation's hottest real estate markets in 2016 knew what they were talking about!
And lest you want to crack jokes about people selling their homes to flee the city's problems — yes, RFT readers, we're on to you — this isn't just St. Louis proper or even just the city and county being surveyed. The area in the tracker includes St. Charles County, Warren County, Jefferson County and some parts of the Metro East.
But here's the thing.…