Bill's Boise Real Estate Blog

Tuesday was one of those Idaho days when the sun comes out and pretends it is Spring.  It was our first day with a temperature in the 60's since November.  It was one of those days for calling your best friend up and playing hookie together, which is exactly what my wife and I chose to do.  Some ...

Do you like to drive through the North End and watch the seasonal changes in some of the classic old home neighborhoods?  Don't you just love driving Harrison Boulevard in the fall when the leaves are changing?  Have you ever wondered what is inside those big old homes over on Harrison Boulevard...

Single family home sales in Ada County rose to 549 units in February over January's 503 units.  Median listing price was $229,000 while median sold price was $223,735.  At the moment there are 3681 active single family listings.  That is a further improvement from January's inventory level of jus...

 There are a lot of great things to do around Boise next month!  Expo Idaho and the Idaho Center have plenty of variety, and the pro sports teams will be in town.  Here are just a few that I wanted to remind you of.  Put them on your calendar.Idaho Steelheads home hockey games will be on March 8,...

Garden City City Council members voted unanimously Monday night to deny approval to a developer's plans for a 5 acre site adjacent to the Boise River that was the former Coffey Mobile Home Park.  The mobile park was in the news in 2006 because of the efforts of the owner to remove the residents o...

Over the past few weeks my wife Cathy and I have had the pleasure of moving to a new home.  Yes, I really do believe that now is a good time to buy a home in the Boise and Meridian areas of Idaho.  Going through the whole process again for ourselves has reminded me of what this real estate busin...

One of the first things you notice about Boise and the Treasure Valley when you come here in the winter months is how brown everything is.  Many of our newcomers are relocating from the coastal states, and invariably they ask "is it always this brown here?"  And, it being winter still, the answe...

  I was asked recently if I knew how the latest numbers stacked up with previous years, and if I knew "how big the bubble was" here in Ada County.After doing a little research I put together a very simple chart that shows the shape of our local real estate market over the last six years.  I find ...

January home sales for the Ada County Idaho real estate market continue to show the improvement I have been talking about for a number of weeks now.  Sales of single family homes and single family with acreage stand at 515 this afternoon (502 for single family only).  We have only sold more than ...

On the way to the office this morning I heard on the radio that two of my favorite TV personalities will be appearing in Boise on the 25th of February as part of BSU's College of Engineering's 10th Anniverary!  Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, Discovery Channel's Mythbusters, will be presenting a f...