The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) Housing Commission will host a public forum on pressing local and national housing issues at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho on Thursday, August 22, 2013. Idaho ranks among the top five states with the highest increase in home prices. Over the first quarter of last year, home prices in Idaho climbed 15 percent. Other states topping the list include Arizona, California, Nevada and Hawaii.

Washington, D.C. - August 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) Housing Commission will host a public forum on pressing local and national housing issues at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho on Thursday, August 22, 2013. Idaho ranks among the top five states with the highest increase in home prices. Over the first quarter of last year, home prices in Idaho climbed 15 percent. Other states topping the list include Arizona, California, Nevada and Hawaii

Washington, DC - August 9, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- “In Idaho, we know the impacts of catastrophic wildfires firsthand. During fire season, many of us are impacted indirectly, and some have felt the heat of the flames as they have fought to protect their homes and livelihoods. As a lifelong Idahoan, I have seen where catastrophic fires have scorched the land so badly that nothing will grow. That’s why, as Chairman of the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, it’s easy for me to understand the value of providing land managers and firefighters with the resources they need to manage and put out fires.

COEUR D’ALENE - August 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Idaho Housing and Finance Association (IHFA) will hold a free workshop for landlords at 3 p.m., Monday, Aug. 19, at its branch office, 915 W. Canfield Ave., Coeur d’Alene.

Boise, ID - August 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Gavin Gee, director of the Idaho Department of Finance, today announced that starting September 1, the Department will begin using the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System (NMLS) to manage consumer finance company, payday lender and collection agency licenses on a voluntary basis. Mortgage licensees have been on NMLS since 2008 and money transmitters since 2012. The department now has 3,027 licensees using NMLS.

BOISE, IDAHO - June 14, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Residents in 14 Idaho counties can estimate their 2013 property taxes by visiting the Idaho State Tax Commission’s website at tax.idaho.gov. The “Quick Picks” section on the home page links to a calculator that allows taxpayers to estimate what they will owe

Boise, ID - June 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- 6,564 Idahoans will receive a check this month for approximately $1,480, Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said. The payments to borrowers are a result of the National Mortgage Settlement negotiated by state attorneys general and the federal government in 2012.

Boise - June 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division has rescheduled an informational presentation on foreclosure issues in Fort Hall, Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said. The Fort Hall presentation originally scheduled for January was canceled due to weather conditions

UGENE, OR - May 31, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is pleased to announce David Elsey has become the latest real estate professional to join the growing network of agents and brokers who have employed the dynamic IDX Broker software. Elsey now makes the Boise, Idaho property search monumentally simpler for area home seekers. As a member of the Intermountain MLS (IMLS), Elsey has long had access to thousands of detailed property listings. Now, Elsey gives his clients and other potential buyers’ unprecedented accessibility to the IMLS database of homes. Never before have buyers been able to experience such innovative real estate search tools from the convenience of the website of Elsey, or the IDX Broker application for iPhone and iPad.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The prices of existing single-family homes in Idaho rose 15 percent in the past year, according to data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released Thursday. Idaho had the fourth-highest rate of appreciation from the first quarter of 2012 to the first quarter of 2013, according to the FHFA’s House Price Index. Only Nevada, Arizona and California had higher rates. Nationally, home prices jumped 6.7 percent over the same time period.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 22, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- ShopHomeInsurance.net announces the new home insurance quote comparison service. Selection a home insurance quotes provider is one of the many important decisions. Choose From the Best Home Insurance Companies: Liberty Mutual Home Insurance, Safeco home insurance, Travelers Home Insurance, Ask Royal Home Insurance and ASI Home Insurance and Hartford Home Insurance.

EUGENE, OR - May 20, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is pleased to welcome the real estate expertise of Bill McMurray of Community Real Estate to the growing network of realty professionals dedicated to serving the needs of their clients. Luxury home seekers can now experience an unprecedented level of accessibility to thousands of Idaho Mountain Central MLS (IMCMLS) listings, on McMurray’s convenient and easy-to-use IDX-enabled Community Real Estate website. As the raw listings data of IMCMLS properties is now extracted and seamlessly integrated into the search functions McMurray hosts, IDX Broker has forever changed the way McCall, Idaho area home seekers access the IMCMLS database and find the perfect property online

Boise - May 10, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Idahoans forced to move due to foreclosure have until June 30 to apply for financial assistance from the Community Action Partnership Association of Idaho (CAPAI), Attorney General Lawrence Wasden and CAPAI Executive Director Christina Zamora said today.

Reston, Virginia - April 26, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. today announced that a five-justice panel of the Idaho Supreme Court unanimously affirmed a lower court decision in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS) and three other defendants, dismissing the Plaintiff's complaint of wrongful foreclosure

WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The homeless population in Idaho decreased for the third consecutive year, according to the most recent Point-in-Time Count. The 2013 assessment identified 1,781 homeless adults and children in Idaho, a 9.5 percent decrease from the previous year, when there were 1,968 homeless. The state’s homeless population has fallen 24 percent since 2010, when there were 2,346 homeless