Move with McLaren, Ashley McLaren - St. Louis Metro Realtor

Move with McLaren, Ashley McLaren - St. Louis Metro Realtor Helping families and individuals make confident moves in the STL area for 14+ years. Let’s connect and make your next move your best one yet!

Local expertise, honest advice, and a personalized approach from our first conversation to closing day.

09/28/2026

Showings start Friday 10/2 at 9 AM—and if you’ve been waiting for the right Wentzville home under $350K, this might be it. 🏡✨

Easy one-level living, tall ceilings and tons of natural light. A massive primary suite. A big fenced corner lot with room to actually enjoy being outside. A full lower level with space to grow into. And that three-car garage we all know is hard to give up once you have one. 😉

Add in a neighborhood pool and playground, and $349,900 gets you a whole lot of life here.

📍 38 Huntleigh Park Ct | Wentzville
💰 Offered at $349,900

Want to see it? Send me a message and let’s get you in. 🤍

At some point you stop just living in St. Charles County and realize you’ve become aggressively local. You have a Wentzv...
09/27/2026

At some point you stop just living in St. Charles County and realize you’ve become aggressively local.

You have a Wentzville Parkway strategy.

Your coffee shop depends entirely on the occasion.

You’ve accepted that highway construction is simply part of the infrastructure.

And you’re still patiently waiting for Wentzville to get the Trader Joe’s it deserves. 👀😂

I’ve lived here, raised my boys here, built my business here + driven approximately 847,000 miles around this county showing houses… so I feel VERY qualified to make this list.

But I know I missed some.

What’s the most painfully St. Charles County thing you’d add?

📍 St. Charles County, Missouri

Ashley McLaren | St. Louis Metro Real Estate Advisor
Ashley McLaren | St Louis Metro Realtor + Local Expert

Today was one of those days where I got in my car at the end of it and just thought… holy crap. 🥹Double closings today. ...
09/25/2026

Today was one of those days where I got in my car at the end of it and just thought… holy crap. 🥹

Double closings today. 🔑🔑

Redmond is officially LIVE and absolutely THRIVING. 👀

Media day for another Wentzville listing coming soon.

Walkthrough for a gorgeous luxury Wentzville listing coming in the next few weeks.

Met a brand new cash buyer in Fenton looking for a lake home. 🏡

AND a buyer I have worked with for FOUR YEARS called me today and said they’re ready to write on a new construction home—with me right there helping them through it. 😭🤍
FOUR. YEARS.

There are days in this business that are hard. Days when you question yourself. Days when you work your ass off and have absolutely nothing immediate to show for it.
And then there are days like today.

So I need to say something to my people:
Thank you for keeping my name in your mouth. 😂 Seriously.
Thank you for tagging me when someone asks for a Realtor. For giving my number to your friend. For telling your coworker to call me. For sharing my listings. For recommending me in Facebook groups. For coming back years later. For trusting me with your family. For standing behind my business even when I’m not in the room to hear you do it.

You have absolutely no idea how much of this business has been built because someone, somewhere said, “Call Ashley.”
I will never take that for granted.

14+ years in, and days like today still make me ridiculously excited about what I get to do—and even more excited about what’s coming.

I am tired. 😂
I am grateful.
I am FIRED UP.
Let’s. Freaking. GO. 🤍🏡

09/25/2026

THIS is what I mean when I tell buyers to think beyond the house.

Because yes, the house matters. Obviously.

But so does what you’re actually buying with it.

In this case? Nearly 6,000 square feet in Weldon Spring, on an acre, with a huge yard, a pool + plenty of space to make your own.

And that’s where I think buyers sometimes get so focused on finding the “perfect” house that they forget to ask a bigger question:

What do I want my life to look like here?
Do you want summer afternoons around your own pool?
A yard with room for kids, dogs, a garden or a sport court?
Space to host everyone without feeling like everyone is on top of each other?

A location that puts you where you actually WANT to live?
Because you can change paint. You can add molding. You can completely transform a closet. You can update a room over time. You can’t move the house to a different lot or a different location.

So yes, I had plenty of ideas walking through this one. 😂 But the things I’d be most excited about are the things that are already here.

Buy the location. Buy the space. Buy the lifestyle. Then make the house yours. 🤍

📍 371 Galahad Ct
Weldon Spring, MO

Offered at $1,225,000

🏡 Listing courtesy of Show and Sell STL

Here’s what $424,900 can get you in Wentzville 🏡3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,700+ sq ft, a 3-car garage — and a backyard t...
09/24/2026

Here’s what $424,900 can get you in Wentzville 🏡

3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,700+ sq ft, a 3-car garage — and a backyard that backs right to the lake and quarter mile walking path. 🤍

But what I love most about this one? It’s BETTER than new in all the ways that matter. The sellers took a new home and added the things you’d otherwise spend years (and a whole lot of money) doing yourself — custom fireplace, blinds, fencing, paver patio, established landscaping, garden beds, upgraded garage and so much more.

📍 183 Redmond Pines Dr | Wentzville, MO
💰 $424,900

Showings start tomorrow and we are filling up FAST. Want to see it in person? Send me a message and let’s get you inside.

Ashley McLaren | Compass Realty Group
St. Louis Metro Real Estate Advisor

09/22/2026

Fall gets overlooked in real estate. 🍂

Everyone talks about spring like it’s the time to buy a house—and yes, there are usually more homes hitting the market.
But there are also… more buyers trying to buy them.

Fall can look a little different.

You may have fewer homes to choose from, but depending on the house + price point, you may also have fewer people competing with you. That can mean a little more time to think, a little more room to negotiate, and sellers with different motivations than they had in April.

Does that mean every house is negotiable? Nope.

Will a great, well priced home still get multiple offers? Absolutely.

But if you spent the spring feeling like buying a house was an Olympic event, don’t assume you missed your window.
The fall market might actually be more your speed. 🤍🍂

And if you’re wondering what that looks like in St. Louis or St. Charles County right now, send me a message. I’m happy to talk through it with you!

Hi! I’m Ashley, your St. Louis area real estate expert. I’d love to connect about YOUR home journey 🤍

A little quiet on Instagram lately. VERY much not quiet in real life. 😂A few things from the camera roll lately: clients...
09/20/2026

A little quiet on Instagram lately. VERY much not quiet in real life. 😂

A few things from the camera roll lately: clients getting really good news 🏡, running until I look mildly concerning, HYROX voluntarily trying to kill me, an unreasonable amount of coffee + all the normal life happening in between.

But a BIG reason it’s been a little quiet over here? I’ve been working behind the scenes on some REALLY good new listings coming to St. Charles County. 👀🏡

Lots of walkthroughs, prep, strategy, marketing plans + getting everything ready before those “Coming Soon” posts ever hit Instagram. And I am SO excited about the homes I have coming up.

So yes, Instagram got neglected for a minute. 😂 But for a very good reason.

September is getting BUSY over here… and St. Charles County, I have some good ones coming for you. 👀🤍

Happy Sunday, friends. As always, even when I’m silent on socials…I’m always available for your Q’s and connections 🫶

Pretty photos are great. But pretty photos sitting on the MLS waiting for someone to find them? That’s not a marketing p...
09/16/2026

Pretty photos are great. But pretty photos sitting on the MLS waiting for someone to find them? That’s not a marketing plan.

When I list a home, I’m thinking about how we’re going to get people to stop, look + actually care before we ever hit “active.”

The preparation. The photography + video. The launch. The social strategy. My agent network. And then paying attention to what buyers are telling us once we’re live.

Because putting a house on the market and marketing a house are two very different things.

And after 14+ years of doing this, I’m a pretty big believer that the strategy should start long before the sign goes in the yard.

Thinking about selling somewhere in the St. Louis Metro? Send me a message. I’m always happy to talk through what selling could look like for you. 🫶

— Ashley McLaren
St. Louis Metro Real Estate Advisor | Compass

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