
Boise Hit By Pandemic Housing Slump With Inventory Glut
Across the nation, the overall US housing inventory in July was 44 percent below where it was in July of 2019. However, Boise's available housing inventory charted 34 percent above 2019 levels and--get this--141 percent above July 2021! Considering there is a slug of newly constructed homes about to hit the Boise market, national analysts and research firms are predicting home prices will fall in the Boise area after the pandemic surge of immigrants to Idaho from California,


10 Issues Facing Commercial RE Now
The following prognostication is from GlobeSt.com following a recent interview with advisors at LaSalle, a real estate investment firm. LaSalle analysts provided these top 10 issues they believes could steer commercial real estate’s direction: 1. Cost of Debt - Lending rates have doubled in the last six to 12 months. And loan to value ratios are also moving to require larger down payments. 2. Rising Corporate Bond Yields – These cause upward pressure on discount rates and exi


2022 Halftime Report
With half of 2022 now behind us, analysts are reporting increases in Q2 commercial real estate deal volume and overall prices, despite inflation and rising lending rates. Year over year, deals were up 17 percent on average. However, deals under $20 million were actually down 11 percent. The apartment and industrial sectors logged the strongest transaction volume with 62 percent of all deals. Yet, again, deals under $20 million in these two sectors were down 22 percent. The up