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Faced with a housing shortage and skyrocketing rents, Oregon became the first state to impose mandatory rent controls when Gov. Kate Brown signed a pioneering measure last week. The bill establishing tenant protections had moved swiftly through the Legislature. Many ...

The surge of growth in Meridian is impacting not only the city’s demand for homes and schools, but also the necessary resources to keep the community safe. One of Meridian’s priorities — getting fire station No. 6 built in one of ...

A proposed construction project in Nampa where online retailer Amazon is presumed to be the intended tenant has been delayed. The City of Nampa announced Thursday that the Newport Beach, California-based developer of a project, referred to by the code ...

Clearwater Consulting Group, Inc. leased 1,150 square feet of office space at 120 9th Ave. S. Ste. 140 in Nampa. Mike Pena, Bryant Jones and Lincoln Hagood of Colliers International facilitated the transaction. Class 101 Boise Meridian LLC leased 1,200 square feet ...

With architects using virtual reality to help design their buildings, could real estate agents using virtual reality to help sell them be far behind? That’s the theory behind EPIC Realty, a Meridian-based real estate company that offers virtual reality and ...

Tagged with: chad mccloud epic realty sheridan hodson virtual reality

Housing demand in California remained subdued for the ninth consecutive month in January as economic and market uncertainties sent home sales to their lowest level since April 2008, the California Association of Realtors said in a new report. Closed escrow ...

With the news that Payless ShoeSource will shutter its remaining stores in the next few months, the company has retained a firm to shop its leases to new tenants nationwide, including its 24 locations in Idaho. Several of the metro ...

This is the second in a four-part series on the gig economy. We’ve all heard of Airbnb if you need to rent a room or Uber if you want to make money driving. But there’s another phenomenon emerging that’s also ...

There aren’t any Opportunity Zone projects in Idaho yet, but a fund has been formed to raise up to $250 million to develop them. Opportunity Zones are a community development program established by Congress in the 2017 Tax Cuts and ...

Tagged with: galena opportunity inc. opportunity zones

Pigment Hair Salon leased 1,311 square feet of retail space at 3525 W. State Street in Boise. Holly Chetwood of Thornton Oliver Keller facilitated the transaction. Foothills School of Arts & Sciences, Inc. purchased the 22,046-square-foot former Creamery building at ...