George Tallabas Boise Real Estate

Boise Real Estate home buyers and the entire Treasure Valley was recently informed about the extension of the $8,000 Federal Tax Credit and the new $6,500 credit for home sellers. It has now been extended through the end of June, 2010. Idaho homebuyers must sign a real estate purchase and sale contract before April 30, ...

Boise Idaho Real Estate home buyers and the entire state of Idaho just got a big boost.  Fannie Mae just announced a program where they will pay a 3.5% incentive to any Idaho Home Buyer that purchases and closes on a Fannie Mae owned home between January 28, 2010 and April 30, 2010. Buyers purchasing in this time frame may receive up to ...

In my over 29 years as a licensed Idaho Realtor I have never seen a better opportunity for anyone interested in purchasing Idaho Real Estate.  Mark my words when I say, those that don't buy Idaho Real Estate in the next few months will kick themselves for not doing it years from now!  Here are the 3 main reasons I see ...

Did you know that mortgage rates took nearly a 1% drop last Friday the 28th of November 2008? This is great news for those looking to buy a home.  Home buyers now have awesome interest rates to go with incredibly low prices on homes which include record numbers of foreclosures. The federal reserve announcement last ...

Search over 13,000 listings in the Southwest area of Idaho in a new and innovative way.  As of November of 2008 there is a new tool that will allow you the user to search all of the listings in the Southwest Idaho Regional MLS including Bank Foreclosures.  You can also now search by percentage of price reduction and days on the ...

I have written about this topic in the past but with the unprecedented buyers market we are currently in this topic certainly deserves to be reconsidered. Unless one has been living in cave the past two years it is obvious that any retirement account funded by stocks or mutual funds has taken a huge beating.  Experts are predicting that ...

The Idaho Real Estate market has changed the past 24 months and no one will argue with that statement. I still find it interesting that many homeowners have not been given good advice in dealing with a challenging market. I hope these tips will shed some light on some very important facts. 1. Statistics are meant to be analyzed. Look at ...

Idaho real estate prices seem to be falling almost monthly.  Whenever I am asked to do a search in any price range I find that now as many as 7 out of 10 homes I show are either Idaho foreclosures or Idaho short sales. In the peak year of 2005 it was almost unheard of in the Treasure Valley area of Southwest Idaho for homes to be ...

I had lunch with one of my mortgage lender friends this past Wednesday and I asked her if there were anymore Zero Down mortgage loans left.  She said the only true Zero Down program remaining is the Ameridream Program which offers down payment assistance to qualified borrowers.  However, she said that the Ameridream ...

I am beginning to believe strongly in the saying "The more things change, the more things stay the same".  This is certainly true when it comes to good old fashioned communication and knowledge.  A few years ago a local farmer called me and asked if I would be his Idaho Realtor.  He informed me that he was unhappy with his ...