Workforce Housing in the Bozeman MT real estate and other business markets has been a contentious issue. The Bozeman City Commission, with the input from Bozeman's "Affordable Housing Task Force," has approved an affordable housing ordinance. Often referred to as "Inclusionary Housing" or "Inclus
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02/28/2008
At first glance you may think this is a flu epidemic map below, but no... It appears from the Foreclosure Map below for 2007 that the coastal regions were hardest hit by the foreclosure epidemic... The map speaks for itself... Click Here For a Larger Map Heat Map from RealtyTrac.com/ForeClos
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02/27/2008
According to the Wall Street Journal, "If you own a home in a former bubble region like California or southern Florida, there's bad news... and really bad news."Don't go bargain hunting in these markets (though there are always a few good bargains in all markets from time to time). Prices have be
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02/25/2008
Since California has such a large, dynamic real estate market, I think it is prudent to keep one's eyes on its trends to get a sense of the pulse of the overall, national real estate market. With that written, here is some interesting data:Sales for new and resale homes and condos sold in Califor
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02/23/2008
Tour de France champion, Greg LeMond, David and Sacia Morris, and Jorge Jasson, each invested $2 million to purchase ~1% of the total Yellowstone Club real estate in its early days of the late 1990s. In May 2005, Yellowstone Club owner, Tim Blixseth tried to buy their shares for a total of $13 mi
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02/22/2008
Bundling of loans into assets that were then hawked to investors is a major issue in this mortgage storm we are all feeling by now. What contributed in a large part to this financial disturbance was a weak system of accountability, termed "moral hazard, by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi of the Universit
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02/19/2008
I am not sure about this site...seems it could be an avenue for lawsuits, especially if last names and/or addresses are used, but RottenNeighbor.com (first started in Avon, MA) is a "real estate search engine" that allows a person to rate and review good and bad neighbors before moving in or just
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02/19/2008
"Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, which manages a database for 60,000 real estate professionals in the Washington area and parts of West Virginia and Pennsylvania, is changing an element of its ‘days on market' listing for homes. It involves decreasing from 180 to 90 the number of days
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02/15/2008
Although the increasing tremors of recession and economic instability have been agitating the national landscape, Bozeman and southwest Montana have experienced only minor trepidation; the landscape here remained pretty steady during the tremulous year of 2007. So the upward growth was slower th
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02/14/2008
I invite all southwest Montana Realtors to my two open houses this weekend at 1230 Upper Tom Burke in Gallatin Gateway, from 1:00pm-5:00pm and at my 17150 Big Elk Meadow house, from 1:00pm-5:00pm. I will be holding open the Big Elk Meadow property and my husband, Brett, will be holding open the U
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02/14/2008
