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3 - Bed 2 - Bath 3 - Car 1740 Sq. Ft. A beautiful home located on a private drive in the small neighborhood of Eagle Hills East. This home is on the tenth fairway of Eagle Hills Golf Course, this single level home provides stunning views of the foothills and golf course from the large living room...

4 - Bed 2.5 - Bath 2 Story 4 - car 2668 Sq. Ft. 1.13 Acres Beautiful 2 story home with lots of style. Home features a beautiful kitchen, children's room & rec room upstairs, office, 4-bay garage, dual heating system, huge shop, kids play center and in the Vallivue school district. For more info p...

Asking price: $376,000.00 4 - Bed 2.5 - Bath 2 - Story 3 - Car 2835 Sq. Ft. This is a beautiful home that has everything. Knotty Alder cabinets, 2 furnaces & air conditioners, built in media center, Maple floors, central vac, gas fireplace, stamped concrete, covered east facing patio, view of the...

Asking Price: $389,000.00 3 - Bed 2 - Bath 2 - Car 1520 Sq. Ft. A pilots dream right on the Snake River. This property features a cozy home and its own private hanger and a huge shop for all your toys, all paved driveways. The hanger is a Miracle Truss building and is 42x60x16 with a 14' bi fold ...

Reports from the first quarter of 2009 indicated that the Boise-Nampa Idaho area had twice the foreclosure rate of the national average. An estimated 1 in 85 homes in the Treasure Valley were the subject of a foreclosure filing during the first quarter of this year. With the latest economic repor...

The Obama Administration has implemented an incentive that will make Idaho short sales more attractive to lenders, meaning that the number of homes available for short sale may increase as banks become more willing to enable homeowners to get out from under a mortgage through a short sale. The U...

The new incentives offered as part of the Making Home Affordable Program entice lenders to accept proceeds from a short sale as full satisfaction of a loan, and offer $1,500 to homeowners to help with relocation costs. Idaho short sales are already a more affordable option for lenders in compari...

2389 E. Nakano Dr. Meridian Idaho 83646 4 - Bed, 3 - Bath, 3 - Car Garage, 2746 Sq. Ft. This is a very elegant full stucco home with a very desirable floor plan. This home features Radiant heated floors, master bedroom is on the  main level with huge walk in tiled shower and separate jetted tub, ...

2419 S. Marcum Way This is the perfect home for the first time home buyer, or an excellent investment property. Very nice clean home with a park in the neighborhood. Large living area with vaulted ceilings, plenty of plant shelves, dinning nook, open kitchen with pantry, white on white appliances...

Boise's name comes from the French word boise, which means "wooded". Some people assume that the word means tree, but the French word for "tree" is arbre.  The word bois means "wood". It's said that French Canadian fur trappers came over the mountains looked down upon the Boise River Valley in th...