{"id":148,"date":"2011-05-10T21:46:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T03:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.findyourhomeinboise.com\/real-estate-blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2011-05-11T19:33:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T01:33:44","slug":"the-real-estate-view-from-boise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findyourhomeinboise.com\/real-estate-blog\/boise-real-estate\/the-real-estate-view-from-boise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Estate View from Boise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>By Cristina Pescaru, CSP<\/em><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>Real Estate Consultant<\/em><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>Boise, Idaho<\/em><\/strong><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.findyourhomeinboise.com\/real-estate-blog\/images\/buy-sell-boise-home.jpg\" alt=\"Now's the time to buy or sell a Boise home\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are seeing a slow down in foreclosures in the Treasure Valley, and, as a  result, multiple offers on bank owned properties in lower price ranges. For the  frustrated buyers, and their agents, <span>it feels strangely<\/span> like the \u201cboom\u201d years of  2004-2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCombined default filings for Ada and Canyon counties during the first  quarter of 2011 were 1,565, compared to 2,405 during the same period in  2010\u201d (Idaho Business Review).<\/p>\n<p>Buyers are still waiting for the bottom to drop, but they may have to wait a  little longer, and end up not having their choice. Sellers are waiting for the  market to improve, when they should take advantage of the <span>relative<\/span> quiet in  the foreclosure market, and of the weariness of buyers fed up with waiting to purchase  \u201cshort sales\u201d\u2026Sellers that are not in a \u201cdistressed\u201d position are very attractive  to buyers, provided that they are willing and able to sell at market value.<\/p>\n<p>In short, \u201cthere is no time like the present\u201d applies very well to the  situation in real estate today. While it is at times difficult to figure out if  we are going up or down, if the multiple offers, and the slowing down of  foreclosures will drive the prices up, or not so much, one thing is certain:<strong> if  you are thinking of selling, now is the time. Sell.<\/strong> <strong>If you are thinking of  buying, no use in waiting. Buy. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cristina Pescaru, CSP Real Estate Consultant Boise, Idaho We are seeing a slow down in foreclosures in the Treasure Valley, and, as a result, multiple offers on bank owned properties in lower price ranges. For the frustrated buyers, and their agents, it feels strangely like the \u201cboom\u201d years of 2004-2006. \u201cCombined default filings for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30,5,28,50,27,6,29,7],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boise-real-estate","tag-bank-owned","tag-boise","tag-buy","tag-idaho","tag-properties","tag-real-estate","tag-sell","tag-short-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.findyourhomeinboise.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.findyourhomeinboise.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.findyourhomeinboise.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.findyourhomeinboise.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.findyourhomeinboise.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.findyourhomeinboise.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.findyourhomeinboise.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.findyourhomeinboise.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.findyourhomeinboise.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.findyourhomeinboise.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}