Sandpoint foreclosures continue to keep conventional buyers on the sidelines as Investors are scooping up the most affordable properties at yard sale prices.
Banks are forced to keep foreclosed homes vacant and appraisals may be lowering the values of inhabited homes due to the low closing prices or no sales at all.
Heard about another that are [...]

Sandpoint middle to low income real estate buyers are waiting to see if our community qualifies for yet more programs under the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSB).
Working with many new state and local initiatives in the next few weeks it is expected that about 5 billion dollars will be made available to households earning no [...]

While local banks are working with the business community and non-profits to provide assistance to home owners and home buyers; Bank of America has decided to make it easier for states and cities to purchase foreclosures in Sandpoint and across the country before investors buy the property.
I have discussed the U.S. Department of Housing [...]

The Summer Sampler starts pretty soon in Farmin Park and we know many of you there for the best taste of local restaurants, lively cook offs, beverages, and live music.
This event reminds us once again how much we share as a community and how important it is that come together during a time when most [...]

Idaho’s jobless rate bounced up nearly 1% last month while here in Bonner County we saw that unemployment came down to 8.6% in May according to the Department of Labor.
Our outlook is that we could be seeing huge numbers in the jobless rate but while the nation lost nearly three and half million manufacturing jobs [...]