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Boise area Home Sales – March 2009

Total Homes Sold in Ada County in March 2009 – 369 Boise North – 14 homes with a median price of $240,000 Northeast – 8 homes with a median price of $240,000 Southeast – 20 homes with a median price of $192,500 Bench – 23homes with a median price of $156,500 South – 6 homes with a median price of $254,900 Southwest [...]
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Boise area Homes For Sale – April 2009

Boise area homes for sale Boise – 2559 homes Meridian – 1245 homes Kuna – 244 homes Eagle – 482 homes Star – 194 homes Nampa – 1369 homes Caldwell – 751 homes Middleton – 167 homes
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Buy Now or Later

Recently I attended a seminar given by Dr. Ted Jones, Senior Vice President-Chief Economist for Stewart Title Guaranty Company, a national company that provides title insurance and escrow services in the real estate industry. He provided a lot of common sense information about the current state of our economy. But the one idea [...]
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Idaho’s Share of the Stimulus Pie

The federal government has cut up the pie and the State of Idaho will soon receive its share of the money. Want to know where the money will go? Lots of schools, cities, counties and other entities are already submitted their requests for funds. The State has designed an internet website to [...]
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Boise area Home Sales – February 2009

Total Homes Sold in Ada County in February 2009 – 265 Boise North – 14 homes with a median price of $250,000 Northeast – 2 homes with a median price of $292,000 Southeast – 16 homes with a median price of $228,900 Bench – 18 homes with a median price of $145,000 South – 10 homes with a median price of [...]
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Facing foreclosure?

Last Tuesday, President Obama, through Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, laid out his plan to help homeowners who are facing foreclosure – either because they are already behind in their monthly mortgage payments or because they are about to be. The plan is designed to help homeowners who are having difficulties paying their mortgage payments [...]
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First Time Home Buyer Assistance in Idaho

Are you a “First Time Home Buyer*?” If you are, the Federal Government would like to give you a tax credit for purchasing a home. Congress recently passed and the President signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act which includes a provision for a tax credit for first time home buyers. The provision is [...]
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Boise area Home Sales – January 2009

Total Homes Sold in Ada County in January 2009 – 232 Boise North – 10 homes with a median price of $195,000 Northeast – 1 homes with a median price of $395,000 Southeast – 23 homes with a median price of $183,900 Bench – 11 homes with a median price of $153,000 South – 9 homes with a median price of [...]
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Boise to Host 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games

Welcome to Boise, Idaho, athletes! Beginning February 7th, Boise will be host to over 2400 athletes with intellectual disabilities who will be competing in the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games. These games will be big – 207 nations being represented.
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To refinance or not to refinance?

Interest rates have been hovering around 5% – dipping to 4.875% a couple of weeks ago and rising to 5.12% this past week. With interest rates at these levels, you may be asking yourself, “When does it make sense to refinance?” Acording to Kellie Allen of Guild Mortgage, the general guideline for refinancing
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