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CityBurb.com Boise Real Estate BlogCityBurb.com Boise Real Estate BlogCityBurb.com is a Full Service Real Estate company that provides alternatives to the classic Real Estate Brokerage business model. Our buyer and seller clients are able to keep track of their transactions through a custom website designed to give t Articles
Boise Tower/Boise Place/Boise?s Hole
2007-08-03 22:00:00 The saga on the corner of 8th and Main in downtown Boise continues. What was to be Boise’s tallest building in the early 2000s has become the northwest’s most infamous hole. The Idaho Statesman gives us a great time line in their article on the recent bankruptcy filings of the Boise Hole Place ... More About: Treasure Valley , Tower , Lace
Boise Condos and Lofts
2007-07-31 23:25:00 Our little town is finally growing up. Two years ago, you only had a couple of options in regards to living downtown: Blvd 255 above The Grove or The Tower Plaza Condos in the Washington Mutual building. Today there are ten downtown condo projects finished or under construction ranging in price from the ... More About: Treasure Valley , Loft
Taxes, Not So Appealing.
2007-07-20 17:42:00 It seems not everyone is happy about the incredible growth in the Boise real estate market. According to an Idaho Statesman article, more people than ever filed property tax appeals in the Treasure Valley . The number of appeals jumped from 1,177 to 1,546. When we look at the fact that in certain ... More About: Taxes , Ealing , Appeal
Back to Normal?
2007-07-18 22:10:00 The Idaho Statesmen reported today that the Boise and Treasure Valley real estate markets are getting back to normal. By normal, they are referring to the years before 2005 and 2006 when home buyers were buying anything that was for sale regardless of price or condition. Today the market is very different (understatement of the ... More About: Back , Normal
Welcome to Our Office
2007-07-17 01:04:00 We’ve received many positive comments about our little office here in Boise. So many, in fact, that we decided to put up a virtual tour so that those people that can’t make it downtown during the week can check it out. This is the same type of virtual tour we use for ... More About: Office , Startup
6hrs. 30min. 40sec.
2007-07-11 19:20:00 That is how long it took the CityBurb.com Team (Lenny Nelson and Alfie La Peter) to complete the Mind Over Mountain Adventure Race (MOMAR) on Vancouver Island, BC this last weekend. Now, this has nothing to do with real estate or even the Boise area, but it was a fascinating experience and since CityBurb.com ...
Almost Famous
2007-06-27 18:31:00 This week, Gaye Bunderson of the Idaho Business Review, featured us as the “New Business of the Week” in their weekly business newspaper. The article allowed us to introduce our company and many of the online features our clients will soon be using. I say “soon” because, as of right now, they are ... More About: Famous , Treasure Valley , Startup
It?s Alive.
2007-06-22 02:08:00 Well, mostly.We’ve been working on our website’s property search feature for a while now and it is finally up and live at CityBurb.com . I’d like to take a moment to highlight some of the features that separate our site (and company) from the other 4000+ Boise area real estate websites. Driving Directions - ... More About: Startup , Alive
Gen X/Y: Step Right In
2007-06-21 03:51:00 When we first started designing CityBurb.com we asked ourselves: “if we weren’t involved in the real estate industry, how would we want to go about buying and selling our home?” With that in mind we created a company that would specifically target the X and Y Generations (of which we are a part) and ... More About: Industry , Step , Gen X
Boise?s Lakes
2007-06-08 21:51:00 Okay, so they’re really reservoirs and not lakes, but you can still swim, waterski, wakeboard, fish and hang out in and around them during the summer. And really, only Lucky Peak is located in Boise. Nevertheless, let’s look at my three favorite places to be in the summer: Lucky Peak Reservoir - To the ... More About: Treasure Valley , Lakes , Lake
Time to Buy Income Property in Boise?
2007-06-07 00:30:00 Today, an article in the Idaho Statesman stated that there are currently fewer homes for rent in Ada County than there were last year (2.4% vacancy vs. 10.8%). At first glance this might lead one to believe that it is a great time to buy residential rental or income property. And it may ... More About: Property , Time , Treasure Valley , Income , Prop
Ten Thousand Words
2007-05-28 00:55:00 Our MLS here in Boise and the Treasure Valley has finally allowed agents and brokerages to include 10 photos with every property listing (yes, we immediately updated our listings). Previously, we were only allowed to post 5 photos on our MLS listings (and even then, many agents didn’t take advantage). Everywhere else we advertise ... More About: Industry , Words , Thousand
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Idaho
2007-05-23 05:14:00 This post really has nothing to do with Boise real estate, but I thought I would share something I thought was important. In my elementary school there was, and possibly still is, a big brother/big sister program. In the fourth grade I had a big brother who was in the eighth grade. He had ... More About: Brothers , Treasure Valley , Southwest , Hers , Brother
Sweet Digs Gone Sour
2007-05-19 00:21:00 I am not a big fan of blogs that simply link to other blogs without any added content, but in this case I can only say one thing: Wow! Okay, I can’t hold my tongue (well, fingers in this case). The industry wonders why consumers don’t want to pay 6% and then this happens. Step away ... More About: Industry , Blogging , Sweet , Gone
Cloudy With a Chance for Real Estate
2007-05-17 16:23:00 You can’t pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV without being told that the real estate market is in decline. According to the media, if you own a home, you’ll probably never sell it and if you are buying, you’ll never get a loan. Then again, talking about a nation’s real ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Chance , Treasure Valley , Cloudy
Boise?s Redfin? CityBurb.com Explained.
2007-05-16 16:21:00 After a controversial (well, only among old-school real estate agents) piece on CBS’s 60 Minutes Sunday night, we have been asked how we compare to the Seattle start-up online real estate brokerage, Redfin .com. At first glance, both CityBurb.com and Redfin.com look very similar, but upon further investigation there are some important differences. Both brokerages were ... More About: Industry , Bois , Laine
Boise Bike Week
2007-05-13 05:09:00 Bicycles that is. With another air quality alert being announced by the Idaho DEQ, it seems fitting that this week, May 14-19, is Bois e Bike Week . This week you can learn about all of the benefits of commuting to work on a bike and find out how to deal with many of the perceived issues ... More About: Treasure Valley
How Many Agents Work At Your Office?
2007-05-07 19:39:00 In our office, there are two full-time real estate agents. Before we started CityBurb.com, we both worked in a large office with a few hundred agents. In that office, we were taught to tell our listing prospects about the size of the office and the number of agents that were employed there. ... More About: Office , Industry , Agents , Work , How Many
NY Times? 36 Hours of Boise
2007-05-01 02:03:00 One of the great and not-so-great things about Bois e is that it is often too small to be considered a “big city” and too big to be considered a “small town.” So, whenever I find some great information about Boise and the Treasure Valley written by an outsider (defined as someone who has not ... More About: Times , Hour , Hours
Earth Day Part 2
2007-04-21 18:00:00 Boise and the surrounding areas are beautiful places to live. The city is big enough that our bankers wear suits and ties, yet small enough that they shed those outfits for lycra cycling shorts during a lunchtime mountain bike ride (aka. Lenny and Dave). However, a few days a year the sky over ... More About: Earth , Earth Day , Part
Earth Day Part 1
2007-04-20 21:43:00 Earth Day is this Sunday, April 22. Now, here at CityBurb.com we aren’t hardcore treehuggers, but we do care about the environment. So, we might be softcore treehuggers (at least one of our colors is green). Either way, this Earth Day we thought it might be a good idea to provide homeowners ... More About: Earth , Earth Day , Part
Avoid Foreclosure
2007-04-11 22:29:00 With all of the talk lately about the retraction of many loan programs and the increase of foreclosures, it seems like the right time to list some tips on keeping your home if you’re in danger of losing it. That’s right, not selling it, keeping it. We talk to a lot of people ... More About: Foreclosure , Closure , Sure , Avoid , Fore
Hyde Park
2007-04-06 18:55:00 Many visitors to the Boise area quickly fall in love with the Hyde Park area of Boise’s Northend. Any why not? The area is filled with so much character, from the houses to the restaurants to the people. It is low stress, yet action packed. TurnHere, an internet video producer that also hosts some ... More About: Hyde Park
Where is the Virtual Tour?
2007-03-28 21:03:00 And why is this photo so common in our MLS? There is no excuse for not having at least a single photo of a home when you list it in the MLS. There are 301 listings in Ada County (out of a total of 4,731 total listings as of 3/27/07) that don’t have ... More About: Tour , Virtual , Here , The V , Virt
No More Open Houses
2007-03-26 21:15:00 We don’t do open houses. We used to because many sellers had requested them and so we complied. If that was the service sellers wanted, we were willing to offer it. However, at the beginning of 2006 we looked back at our business for 2005 as we do every year to analyze ... More About: House , Houses , Open , More , Open House
They Passed It
2007-03-14 16:39:00 The bill that requires real estate agents to present offers directly to sellers, also known as the bill requiring “minimum service” from agents, has passed the Idaho Senate according to the Idaho Business Review. I talked about this last week when the bill first reached the Senate. Again, this doesn’t affect our company directly (we ... More About: They , Pass
It Expired?
2007-03-12 21:41:00 Where did we, as real estate agents, go wrong? Since we started this company at the beginning of the year we have spent a lot of time talking to for sale by owners and expired listings. For sale by owners I will leave alone for another post; today I want to discuss expired ...
Good Growth? Bad Growth?
2007-03-06 04:11:00 I read a couple of interesting articles in the Idaho Statesman today. The first talked about how Caldwell is growing quickly and that it seems to have reached a point in its development where locals have no need to travel to Boise for their basic needs like work, shopping and entertainment. The second ... More About: Growth , Good , Grow
Customers Come First - Right?
2007-03-03 21:04:00 I often tell people that I got into real estate because I grew up in the industry. My parents are both brokers. My uncle is a broker. My aunt is a broker. My brother is a broker. And a handful of my cousins are brokers. However, I am staying ... More About: Customers , Customer , Come , First , Right
Love That Technology
More articles from this author:2007-03-01 02:06:00 Having just switched over to wordpress for our blog, I am still learning how to use some of the features. Akismet is pre-installed spam software that comes with every wordpress blog. It seems to work well barring one major flaw: If it detects spam comments on posts older than 30 days it ... More About: Technology , Love , Techno , Tech , Hat 1, 2, 3 |
