Local stats buck national trend

On the heels of a Case Schiller report of a decline in real estate sales across the country, our staff at the Coeur d'Alene Multiple Listing Service was quick to prepare an overview of our local market. We are pleased to report that our statistics present a positive picture of our local market. Most of the cities and many rural areas within the MLS jurisdiction report gains, not losses in number of sales and appreciation.

Central Cd’A price-cut-a-palooza

Neighborhood of the Week: Nov. 7

School reform moves forward

Senate Education Committee sends bills to full Senate

BOISE - Lawmakers started to weigh in on a plan to overhaul Idaho's public schools, moving the legislation forward despite strong opposition from the state teachers union and other groups.

There's the beef

Taco Bell takes its taco meat lawsuit to public

Taco Bell says a legal beef over the meat in its tacos is bull.

Car deals abound - if you want a 2015 model

Sheriff's Blotter

Notable calls for the day!

CEO takes pay cut so all workers can earn $70,000

Seattle CEO to cut his pay so every worker earns $70,000

(AP) A Nampa Christian High School graduate turned successful Seattle CEO who announced that he's giving himself a drastic pay cut to help cover the cost of big raises for his employees didn't just make those workers happy.

City to buy $247K dump truck

Council decides against dedicating ARPA funds without workshop

Council clears path to purchase $247K truck

Booming business

Sales skyrocketing at fireworks booths in wake of Fourth of July cancellations

Street-smart tips return!

You learn to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you need to also be street smart. As I like to say, knowledge does not become power until it is used!

GROWTH: Needed so locals can afford to live in Kootenai County

Kootenai County currently has a housing deficit of about 2,350 housing units and that number is increasing every year.

Foreclosures, sales increase

Driven by low prices in many areas of the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) area, sales of single family homes on less than an acre are outpacing last year's sales. While Coeur d'Alene and the northern portion of the county show less activity than in 2010, the rest of the market is well up.

Market activity down, prices up

It’s still the same old story. In the Coeur d’Alene Multiple Listing Service as of the end of August, active residential inventory was down nearly 11 percent compared to 2016, with 2,819 active listings vs. 3,161 at this time last year. As a result, closings of residential properties were off 4.6 percent from last year’s production.

Don’t sell your house! At least until you read this

Neighborhood of the Week: June 20

EDITORIAL: Double up now against illnesses

Get your flu vaccine and COVID booster in one visit

In the Legislature

Turn in old medications at library on Saturday

Where your caring counts

Jake pulled a fellow sailor overboard to safety when his destroyer was sunk by a torpedo in World War II. He was big and strong then. The thought of living in a nursing home when he got old never crossed his mind. But eventually a stroke changed that and he's now in an assisted living facility depending on others to keep him safe.

Struggling Shopko closing

Coeur d’Alene shoppers will have fewer options come June.

Every picture tells a story

When it comes to the residential real estate market, stories are varied. In the Coeur d'Alene Multiple Listing Service there are several stories too but they add up to a pretty positive view of local real estate. As you know every market has micro markets (neighborhoods) that make up the whole picture. Our MLS covers a large portion of the Idaho panhandle and when we lump it all together our year to date statistics show continued growth in volume and appreciation.