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February Market report for Ada County ju

Posted on March 12, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized |

February Market report for Ada County just released. “It just gets better and better”. http://ow.ly/9Bz8r

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May I have your attention please…FREE

Posted on March 7, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized |

May I have your attention please…FREE business planning seminar for members and lunch. Act now or just keep hoping for business success. http://ow.ly/9vF1K

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The Realtor’s Community Foundation onli

Posted on March 1, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized |

The Realtor’s Community Foundation online auction is live! Want an iPad or a XBox or a hot air balloon ride? Bid now. http://ow.ly/9oJrt

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A guide to Undertanding Mortgage Debt Cancellation

Posted on February 14, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized |

Understanding Mortgage Debt Cancellation A lender will, on occasion, forgive some portion of a borrower’s debt. The general tax rule that applies to any debt forgiveness is that the amount forgiven is treated as taxable income to the borrower. Some exceptions to this rule are available, but, until recently, when a lender forgave some portion [...]

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Want to help bring jobs to Boise?…here’s how.

Posted on January 26, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized |

I received this letter from BVEP’s Executive Director, Clark Krause earlier today. It dawned on me that between us (all 3,000 of us) we could come up with some pretty compelling reasons for this potential employer to move here…. Please copy me at marc@myacaronline.com on anything you send. Boise Valley Economic Partnership (BVEP) Requests Your [...]

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December Market Report is in…and it looks pretty darn good.

Posted on January 12, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized |

2011 December sales were 477 in Ada County, a decrease of 9% over December 2010. Total sales for 2011 are 6,299; up 7% over 2010. In July of 2011, we exceeded YTD 2010 sales for the first time in 2011. This is our first year-over-year increase, without influence of the home buyer tax credit, in [...]

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Who’d you say we were again…?

Posted on December 30, 2011. Filed under: Committee Updates, Ethics, Legislative Update, Market Update, Member Benefits, President Post, Uncategorized |

Who’d you say we were again…? I called a friend at NAR earlier this week.  Frederik Heller is an archivist with NAR’s library and has been working on a project to record the contributions of REALTORS® to American history. I told him I wanted to add something special to my end of year retrospective and [...]

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That was the year that was…reflections on the year gone by

Posted on December 28, 2011. Filed under: Uncategorized |

Making predictions is like playing a fun parlor game.  Whatever comes from it is more often than not forgotten as soon as it is done. Not so at ACAR.    In December 2010 we made a bunch of predictions and presented them as a look back at 2011…pretty clever right?   So…how did we do?  [...]

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REALTORS® Applaud Bill to Protect Taxpayers From Mortgage Industry Bailouts

Posted on December 14, 2011. Filed under: Uncategorized |

Washington, December 08, 2011 The National Association of Realtors® supports legislation introduced today that provides sensible reform of the secondary mortgage market and protects the interest of taxpayers. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) introduced the legislation, “The Mortgage Finance Act of 2011,” in the U.S. Senate. The bill creates a limited-term, government-chartered secondary mortgage market mechanism, the Mortgage [...]

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November is again something to be thankful for…homes sales continue to outpace last year.

Posted on December 12, 2011. Filed under: Uncategorized |

2011 November sales were 471 in Ada County, an increase of 7.3% over November 2010. November sales YTD are 5,763; up 7.98% over 2010 YTD. In July of 2011, we exceeded YTD 2010 sales for the first time in 2011. In August we improved to +6.1%. In September our increase was 7.2%. In October it [...]

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