The Spring Home Festival – Idaho’s premiere new home event!

Are you a buyer, builder, real estate agent or simply a fanatic when it comes to granite, marble, stainless steel, 2×6 construction, modern design and new beginnings? None of the above? Well, keep reading and maybe we’ll convert you! Agents at Coldwell Banker Tomlinson Group are currently lining up 40 of Boise’s finest new homes [...]

CBTG Homes + YouTube = excellent!

Have you heard of this new website called YouTube? Apparently it’s a popular place for people to be…a place where people share videos and other multimedia files with each other and then other people can watch the videos and comment on them. Sounds like a cool website!* Not ever wanting to not be in on [...]

To Photoshop or not to Photoshop…or, is your listing a dog squirrel?

I was reading a great blog over at ActiveRain earlier this morning, written by a Re/Max agent in Houston named Greg Nino. It’s not a long or elaborate blog, but it does bring up a hugely important and somewhat controversial topic in the real estate industry: Photoshopped pictures of real estate listings. Greg had the [...]

So you’re a Realtor…what next?

The first thing you’ll need to do is find a company to work with. New agents have a big decision to make the day they receive their license that will dictate their level of success for the critical first years of their career… The Question: Do you join a big, corporate company or a small, [...]

Relationships should define the company, internally and externally

In the real estate industry, it’s both perfectly true and perfectly cliche to say this is a relationships business. It’s true in every sense of the word, since real estate is uniquely personal and professional at the same time – even while contracts and documents are being signed in quantities that give even the best [...]

Owners and sellers…did you survive 2004-2005? (Hint, if you’re reading this, you did)

If you’re a home owner or home seller and you’re concerned about your property value – ask yourself just one simple question… Did you survive 2004-2005?  If the answer to that question is yes, then you should have no trouble surviving 2010. Why? Because the average sale price in the Treasure Valley for residential listings [...]

The tax credits are gone…but does that have to mean sales are, too?

Yes it’s true, the first-time homebuyer tax credit and the “move-up” tax credit both expired on April 30, for all intents and purposes.  Anyone who signed a sales contract before the end of last month still have two months to close, but if you’re a buyer, seller or agent who is sans contract, the next [...]

CNN Money: Boise an ideal place to buy or sell a home

Boise has always been a great place to buy or sell a home, though in the midst of the real estate bubble a few years back, prices were a bit inflated over fair market value estimates for the area.  This meant it was a great place to sell a home, but for buyers, it meant [...]

Rental prices are the silver lining for wannabe homebuyers

As the first-time homebuyer tax credit comes to a close this spring, many analysts are fearing, at best, a stagnation of the housing market while demand plummets and mortgage rates rise, and at worst a total relapse of the housing crisis – led by again rising mortgage rates, decreased incentives for homebuyers and a piling [...]

Homeowner’s perception versus reality – what does it mean for you?

After reading a blog post over on ActiveRain about the latest Zillow.com homeowner perception versus reality survey, I asked myself an eternally useful question – what does this mean for our agents? The blog references this study, which concludes that in the third quarter of 2009, homeowners are generally confused and probably a little too [...]