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Despite a hot economy with steady increases in wages and employment, many Treasure Valley residents can’t keep pace with the rising cost of housing. That subject was front and center last week when mortgage lenders, realtors, housing advocates and business ...

Zillow, the online real estate and rental marketplace, will expand Zillow Offers to Portland, Oregon, and four other markets in 2019, citing strong demand for the direct purchase program. In addition to Portland, Zillow Offers will launch in Miami, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, ...

Seattle-based Washington Federal has purchased a nearly 100,000-square-foot building within the Boise Research Park to expand its operational presence in the Treasure Valley and the state of Idaho, the bank announced. In a Jan. 8 news release, the company said ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft says it will devote $500 million to address a problem its own success helped create: the severe need for affordable housing in the Seattle area. As the tech industry Microsoft brought to the region has boomed ...

Building owners in Boise’s Downtown core are going that extra mile – and sometimes investing heavily – in order to attract quality, long-term and happy tenants. Often, the strategy includes creating or retrofitting spaces so current and future tenants can ...

The new owners of the Plantation Country Club want the property to remain in operation as a golf course, but a group of nearby residents who worried about the land sale is keeping a close eye on any future redevelopment ...

Boise Regional Realtors is expanding down the interstate in a merger with the Elmore County Board of Realtors. Effective Jan. 9, BRR staff is handling administrative matters for ECRB’s 65 members, including government affairs, advocacy efforts, market statistics and grant ...

Boise-based commercial real estate firm Alturas Capital Partners has been busy in Idaho and elsewhere. On Jan. 7, the company on its website said it plans to build a new 824 square-foot Dutch Bros franchise drive-thru in Colorado Springs this year. ...

With several new medical-related development projects of its own moving forward, Ball Ventures Ahlquist clearly sees business opportunity in the healthcare market. On Jan. 8, the commercial development and investment company said it will add to its portfolio with the ...

There’s no doubt the Boise-metro area is growing and with that comes development and redevelopment across all its commercial real estate sectors. As reported in a previous edition of Square Feet, the Treasure Valley had a banner year for multifamily ...