Bill's Boise Real Estate Blog

 Now that you have identified your new home, it's time to go find it.  Here is a place that a Realtor can add value and make the whole process easier.  Have you ever been fishing in a new river?  Did you read the guidebooks, then drive there, put on the waders, slap on any old lure, then go splas...

Now that you know what your budget and finances are, and how much you can spend for a new home, it's time to think about finding the right home to buy.  But where do you start?  Do you grab the Saturday Real Estate section and look at pictures?  Do you jump on the internet and search for "Boise ...

The first step in buying a home has to be understanding where you are financially.  Are we ready financially?  How is our credit?  How does a lender see our creditworthiness?  How much can we afford?  What is the best loan for us?  These are the kinds of questions that need to be answered before...

Early this past week I had the pleasure of meeting a young couple who are considering buying their first home.  As with all new buyers, they had more questions than they were asking, and it was apparent that they were following the old "look now, ask questions later" method, driving around looki...

We are seeing a marked increase in buyer interest and open house activity this past month.  The sales number I posted a couple of posts back show we're getting more closed sales as well.  I wanted to comment on the folks I'm meeting and talking to this past couple of weeks, especially at Open Ho...

Despite the many stories about the troubles in the subprime mortgage market and how it might affect the housing market, here in Ada County the sale of homes increased in March by 159 units over February.  Intermountain MLS shows 708 Single Family homes closed in March, making this the first month...

During the last week of March it was announced that there will be a public hearing on the revised master plan for the Harris Ranch development off of Warm Springs on Boise's east side.  The Harris Ranch development is one of Boise's first large planned community developments, dating back into th...

One of the things I find fascinating about the Treasure Valley area around Boise is the way this high desert area has been "claimed" back from the sagebrush and made wonderfully capable for supporting everything from farms to subdivisions.  Of course the Boise River and its watershed make that p...

Earlier this week the Census Bureau released new figures for population growth in U.S. counties.  It has previously released figures that show that Arizona, Nevada, and Idaho were the three fastest growing states by percentage increase in the United States between mid 2005 and mid 2006 (3.6, 3.5...

  This is Russell Shaw on the Bloodhound Blog the other day:Using the median sales prices of an area (which almost all economists and others doing sales data analysis seem to want to do) may be quite useful in determining which city has the best (or worst) affordability. Median sales prices have ...