missoula: New West, real estate development in the N.W. wrap-up - 01/05/09 05:03 AM
Last Thursday - Friday was the 3rd annual New West: Real Estate Development in the North West.  The event featured a Thursday schedule that was based around a lot of political issues, land-use, and marketing trends.  Friday was a lot more economic talk, there was some discussion with developers, and discussion about stream-side set backs. 
Here's my quick thoughts from the 2-day event, also I've posted New West's official release below.
 On Thursday:
 - The first few sessions were broken apart into three different topics, in the morning "track" I went with marketing innovations, in the afternoon "track" I went with … (2 comments)

missoula: Delinquency numbers released for the State of Montana - 01/05/09 04:59 AM
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/12/03/bnews/br40.txt
So this article just came out today, listing the current amount of homes in Montana with mortgages that are listed as 60-days late or worse in the 3rd quarter this year.  There's some very interesting info, some quick points to the article:
Montana's is at 3.96% which is up 1.4% compared to the 3rd quarter of 2007. The rate has been around 2% for quite some time, until the 2nd quarter of 2007, then is started to climb to where its at today. They project that this will still climb, getting possibly as worse 4.7%. Florida is a 7.8%, Nevada … (0 comments)

missoula: Recent seminar on economic trends in Montana - 01/05/09 04:57 AM
Just last week Dr. Larry Swanson an economist with The Center for the Rocky Mountain West did a mass presentation about the Montana economy, how it's doing, and where it's headed.  There was also a panel of speakers there, the president of the Home Builders Assoc, our Realtor board President, a Hotel/Convention Center manager, the manager of the Southgate Mall, and a manager from a regional bank, First Security.  It was a pretty interesting discussion, in fact I've got the power point slide-show, if you'd like it let me know I'm happy to email it.
Larry started off that all of … (2 comments)