Idaho

But Boise and Austin homebuyers pay the biggest premiums, according to a ranking of the top overvalued markets.

No city exemplifies the mania of the COVID-era U.S. housing market better than Boise, Idaho, where prices have surged by more than 30% in the past year. But in a sudden reversal, buyers are now the ones with power.

Despite Boise's supply shortage and skyrocketing prices, homes in Ada County have always been built primarily by local builders. That could soon change.

Cash offers are taking priority in the Boise, Idaho, area, shutting out homebuyers who need a conventional mortgage.

After two months of declines in the coronavirus pandemic, the Boise, Idaho, area housing market rebounded in June with a 3.4% increase in homes sold compared with June 2019.

An Idaho court has ruled against a Treasure Valley resident for his role in a Ponzi scheme that bilked millions from real estate investors.

It's unclear how the impact of coronavirus on the economy will change the Boise housing market, but it seems unlikely to bring more than a brief halt to the trends of rising prices and intensifying shortages of houses for people of ordinary means.

The coronavirus has started to take a toll on the Treasure Valley's still-hot housing market, but you wouldn't know it from the latest home-price data.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little's order telling Idahoans to stay home for 21 days is likely to create havoc for the state's real estate industry.

For the third straight quarter, the Boise metropolitan area finds itself ranked No. 1 on a nationwide housing list.

Real estate in the Magic Valley region of Idaho keeps getting more valuable.

Between 2014 and the third quarter of 2019, the median price of a single-family home in the Boise area increased 75%, to $303,100 from $172,900, according to the National Association of Realtors.

By 2030, about 20% of the U.S. population will be over age 65, up from 15% in 2016, according to the Census Bureau.

Double digits. That's how much Treasure Valley housing prices have shot up in the past year. The spike is so extreme, no other metro area in the U.S. can touch it.

Home prices just set another record in Ada County, Idaho, with the median sale price rising to $354,405 in June. That's $11,415 higher than May's figure, also a record, and 10% higher than in June 2018.

While Ada and Canyon County, Idaho, home prices keep setting records, a credit rating service warns that Idaho home prices are among the most overvalued in the nation.

Freedom Northwest in Idaho hopes a proposal from the NCUA will help it bring in more deposits to fund a fast-growing mortgage business. Banks are crying foul.

One of the nation's largest homebuilders, Toll Brothers Inc., is looking to build a 913-house subdivision in Eagle, Idaho.

First-time homebuyers face growing competition from out-of-state investors and corporate landlords looking to capitalize on Boise's increasing rents.

They can't afford Ada County, Idaho, so they're flocking to its less expensive neighbor to the west.