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Much-needed workers are turning down jobs in Burley because they can’t find affordable housing nearby, says Jan Rogers, chief executive officer for Regional Economic Development for Eastern Idaho. Rogers spoke at the Idaho Housing and Finance Association’s Conference on Housing and ...

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The delinquency rate for U.S. real estate loans in commercial mortgage-backed securities dropped for the eighth straight month in February. The CMBS loan delinquency rate fell to 4.51 percent, a decrease of 32 basis points from January, and the lowest ...

Guaranteed Rate, Inc. leased 2,306 square feet at 873 E. State St. in Eagle. Jamie Anderson and Scott Feighner of Colliers International represented the landlord. IHC Specialty Benefits Inc. expanded its lease by 1,566 square feet at 1755 N. Westgate ...

The Redfin Housing Demand Index began the year strong at 130.5 in January, up 0.5 percent month over month according to Redfin, the real estate brokerage. The seasonally adjusted number of buyers requesting home tours remained unchanged from December to ...

The pace of Americans signing contracts to buy homes fell 4.7 percent in January to its lowest level in more than three years, due to a lack of homes for sale, higher prices and rising mortgage rates. The National Association ...

Participants from academia, architecture, planning, real estate and government are invited to gather in Portland for the inaugural Urbanism Next Conference at the Oregon Convention Center next month. Urbanism Next is a University of Oregon research initiative focused on understanding ...

U.S. home prices rose at the fastest 12-month pace in more than three years in 2017, as potential home buyers fought over a limited number of available properties. Standard & Poor’s said Feb. 27 that its S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national ...

Eagle-based Alturas Capital Partners bought the lender-owned Parkway Plaza shopping center in Idaho after investors from more than a dozen states took a look at the nearly half-empty center. The prior owners did land a Planet Fitness that opened in ...

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The Appraiser Qualifications Board, the national organization that governs the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria, is rolling back a requirement that appraisers must have four-year college degrees. Idaho real estate professionals hope that will make it easier to get timely ...

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New changes to U.S. tax laws led 41 percent of survey respondents to lower their long-term expectations for the U.S. housing market, according to the 2018 Q1 Zillow Home Price Expectations Survey. The quarterly survey, sponsored by Zillow and conducted ...