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The home foreclosure rates in the Treasure Valley fell to .49 percent in January, the lowest rate since July 2007 and a far cry from the foreclosure peak of 3.58 percent in December 2010, according to real estate data provider ...

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The Moffatt Thomas law firm will move across downtown Boise from the U.S. Bank Plaza to One Capital Center into a portion of the space J.R. Simplot Co. will be leaving by the end of the year. The tower-to-tower move ...

Sounds of shooting range gunfire near the Boise Foothills trails in Military Reserve Park will become a thing of the past as the Boise Police Department works to move the range south of town. The city of Boise closed on ...

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For the 11 years that Mike Williams has been a planner for the city of Eagle, there has been just one mixed-use development in the growing city on the northwestern edge of Boise. That’s Winding Creek, a combination of commercial, ...

City officials around Idaho are beginning to view mixed-use development as a strategic way to increase downtown populations in order to help businesses. But because those projects can have difficulty finding financing, many cities help with the costs. One of ...

The idea of mixed-use development is as old as the human community. For hundreds of thousands of years, people have conducted business from a dwelling that doubled as a storefront or workshop. Yet “mixed-use development” has gained national currency in ...

More Americans signed contracts to buy homes in February, with purchases surging in the Midwest ahead of the traditional spring buying season. The National Association of Realtors said March 28 that its seasonally adjusted pending home sales index rose 3.5 ...

U.S. home prices climbed at more than double the rate of incomes in January, a trend that could ultimately create affordability challenges for buyers. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 5.7 percent from a year earlier, a ...

Les Bois Park is closing down, liquidating its assets and talking about how to end its lease with Ada County. The park ended operations March 20. It holds a paid-up lease at the 63-acre horse racing property through the end ...

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Homes in the middle price range are scarce in Ada County. Boise Regional Realtors (the former Ada County  Association of Realtors) in its March market update reported only 1,695 homes for sale in Ada County in January, nearly reaching the ...

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