Real Estate News
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Landowners, Adams district, Nez Perce Tribe restore 1.25 miles of the Little Salmon River
Fencing cattle off of streambanks can make a significant improvement in an area’s water quality
Be careful out there
Buyers know it can be a real challenge to find the right home. Our limited inventory is confounding buyers and their agents as they try to find a great house at a great price. Once discovered, that house should be …
Pine Hill - no place like home
Many neighborhoods in North Idaho can be touted as cozy and family-friendly. Still, when you’re covering neighborhood after neighborhood, week in and week out,…
Low inventory frustrates buyers
As reported in this paper on Friday, the real estate market is healthy but not to the extent where members of the Coeur d’Alene Association of Realtors are fearing a bubble. Even though 2016 sales exceeded the hist…
Post Falls adds North Place to its residential repertoire
North Place, the new Greenstone Homes development located near the Prairie Falls Golf Club in Post Falls, is the “middle ground” neighborhood in more ways than…
Basement lots a highlight of Whiskey Flats in Post Falls
A basement for base price.
Moving out
We have discussed here before “the roll” of real estate. That is the term used to describe how the market moves upward and inward following the major interstate highways of our region. Due to the impact rising pric…
Mountainside neighborhood lets you ski Schweitzer from home
An active subdivision on the slopes of Schweitzer Mountain Resort allows homeowners to live where they ski.
Dis-interest about interest
Many of you agents and sellers alike anticipated a slowdown during the holidays. If that is what you expected then that is likely what you saw. Others have indicated anything but a slowdown in activity during Decem…
New year in the neighborhood
Welcome to 2017. We want to hear from you.
2017: What is in store?
No one knows for sure but the indications are that our strong real estate market will continue at least through the first quarter of this New Year. Even with interest rates at two-year highs there does not appear t…
Neighborhood of the Week: The North Pole faces new era
Up north, there’s always a good deal in real estate.
Realtors give
With the celebration of Christmas and Hanukkah both this weekend is seems appropriate to address the spirit of giving. Your Coeur d’Alene Association of Realtors members have been out ringing bells for the Salvatio…
Tales from the trenches
Finding the ideal home can be challenging enough. Add frigid temperatures and snowy conditions into the mix, and it’s easy to see why people delay their real e…
Some buyers lose interest
We previously noted here that six consecutive weeks of mortgage rate increases have yet to show any impact on home sales in the Coeur d’Alene Multiple Listing Service reports. As illustrated by the gains and apprec…
No interest in interest rates?
Six consecutive weeks of increasing mortgage interest rates may have an impact on the real estate market but you can not see it in our most recent statistics. On Friday staff at the Coeur d’Alene Association of Rea…