Bill's Boise Real Estate Blog

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...

Last night, before a sellout crowd of 5018  in the Qwest  Arena in downtown Boise,  The Idaho Steelheads  hockey club called on  one of the young men from my  office  to fill the net against the Phoenix Roadrunners.  The Idaho Statesman tells it this way "Blair Allison said he's not ready to giv...

If you have recently purchased a home in Idaho to be your primary residence, or if you are planning to do so in the next couple of months, January is the proper time to be thinking about establishing your homeowners property tax exemption.  In Idaho we pay property taxes in arrears, which means ...

Last week I heard another agent tell about a client she had earlier in 2006.  The relationship that developed between the agent and the client had been a good one, and the last time they had spoken they were almost friends.  The home purchase had made the clients very happy.  Then one day, while...

In Idaho we tend to relate to outdoor terms and stories.  I was thinking about that this morning when I went over the river and noticed that no one was fishing.  We've finally gotten too cold to fish (it was 7 degrees before the sun came up this morning).  Having been a serious fly fisher in the ...

I have to say, that was the most roller coaster football game I've seen in many a year!  But with an overtime two point conversion, the Boise State Broncos beat the Oklahoma Sooners last night in the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona by a final score of 43-42.  Downtown Boise quickly filled up with fans ce...