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Canyon County’s median home price in October dropped to a 10-year low of about $82,000, slightly more than half of Ada County’s median home price, according to Intermountain Multiple Listing Service numbers released Monday. The question is...

First-time homebuyers accounted for a record-high share of purchases last month, according to new data released this week by Campbell Surveys . The results aren’t entirely unexpected, considering the April 30 contract deadline to receive the federal...

FHA recently announced a temporary (1 yr) relaxation of its "90-day" anti-flipping rule, which prohibits the use of FHA insured financing if the contract for sale was executed within 90 days of the seller's acquisition of the property. What...

With all the talk about Idaho Short Sales and Idaho Bank Owned Real Estate there has also been talk about how anyone selling a home using the short sale process would have their credit damaged and would be unable to buy a home for 3 years using any kind...

Although evidence is accumulating that the economy is emerging from the Great Recession, there are a number of headwinds that may make the nascent recovery slower and more tentative than previous business cycle expansions. Significant job loss is one...