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Buyer Beware!

It is amazing how much mis-information is floating around the internet! An out of state buyer brought to my attention today the website of a local Boise real estate agent. This buyer was rightly concerned by what he read! Read more

Boise market picks up as inventory remains low.

Bad blogger, bad blogger!! Sorry no posts for awhile but not for the lack of news or desire…just been working! Myself as well as most the agents I know have seen an definite uptick in the local real estate market and are hoping this is not a short lived turn. I think the word has trickled out that Read more

Idaho top job growth by 2012?

A friend had asked me a couple days ago if I had seen a best/worst housing markets predictions list the other day and if so what did I think of it. I hadn’t seen this particular article and when I did read it my comment to her was that I didn’t think much of it. Read more

Lessons from the North

While 1 in 4 homes in the US is thought to be worth less than the mortgage held the situation is much different for our neighbors to the north – Canada. I recently heard a statistic that put our current housing mess into perspective. In 2010 there where more foreclosure notices sent out in the state of California than where sent out for the entire county in 2005 (as I had heard on a MarketWatch podcast last week). Wow! Read more

New housing starts up in 2011

While out with clients earlier this week I was startled to see so much new construction popping up, primarily in the Meridian area. Obviously there are builders out there feeling confidence in the direction the valley economy is moving. Read more