Ralph E. Ostermueller and his wife, Dorothy, have listed for sale a four-bedroom, 2.5-bath home at 12865 Crab Thicket Lane in Des Peres for $424,500.

The 2,605-square-foot house, which was built in 1973, is in the Dougherty Lake subdivision. Mary Gettinger of Coldwell Banker Gundaker is the listing agent.

Mr. Ostermueller serves as area director with the Financial Valuation Group, a company which provides business valuation and litigation support services. He has served in senior management roles for three major accounting and management consulting firms, operated his own business brokerage in St. Louis and worked for a bank group in Oklahoma.

He received his B.S. in commerce in 1962 from St. Louis University.

There were 113 home sales in Des Peres in 2008, with a median sales price of $340,000.

Address: 12865 Crab Thicket Lane