{"id":9030,"date":"2012-07-12T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=9030"},"modified":"2012-07-11T22:03:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T04:03:06","slug":"idaho-housing-market-shows-steady-improvement-says-midyear-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/07\/12\/idaho-housing-market-shows-steady-improvement-says-midyear-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Housing Market Shows Steady Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7908\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Chad and Samantha Boucher made offers on home after home, only to be outbid.  At last, they had good luck.   They're packing up their apartment, and moving into their new home soon.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/06\/Chad-Samantha.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7908\" title=\"Chad &amp; Samantha\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/06\/Chad-Samantha-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/06\/Chad-Samantha-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/06\/Chad-Samantha-620x457.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Molly Messick \/ StateImpact Idaho<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Boise&#39;s tight housing market, Chad and Samantha Boucher made offer after offer.  They at last moved into their new home this spring.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>RealtyTrac&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtytrac.com\/content\/foreclosure-market-report\/midyear-2012-us-foreclosure-market-report-7291http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">midyear foreclosure report<\/a> gives emphasis to the mantra we&#8217;ve been hearing all year about Idaho&#8217;s <a title=\"Your Guide to Idaho\u2019s Housing Market\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/housing-market\/\" target=\"_blank\">housing market<\/a>: it&#8217;s improving.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho still clocks in at 16th on the housing data provider&#8217;s ranking of states&#8217; foreclosure rates.\u00a0 But RealtyTrac&#8217;s numbers show the state&#8217;s rate fell by more than 10 percent from April through June, and by more than 50 percent over the last year.\u00a0 By comparison, 20 states saw their foreclosure activity go up between June 2011 and June 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"States Like Idaho Drive Decrease In National Foreclosures\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/04\/12\/states-like-idaho-drive-decrease-in-national-foreclosures\/\" target=\"_blank\">Non-judicial foreclosure states<\/a>, like Idaho, continued to show improvement relative to those that have a judicial foreclosure process.\u00a0 Lenders in non-judicial foreclosure states do not have to prove in court that a mortgager is in default.<\/p>\n<p><em>StateImpact Idaho<\/em> has paid special attention to the <a title=\"Boise\u2019s Recovery Earns Strong Marks, But There\u2019s A\u00a0Catch\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/07\/03\/boises-recovery-earns-strong-marks-but-theres-a-catch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Treasure Valley&#8217;s housing market turnaround<\/a>.\u00a0 Stories that include the perspectives of home builders, home buyers, municipal officials, realtors, and more are available <a title=\"Little By Little, Idaho\u2019s Hard-Hit Housing Market Begins To Revive\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/04\/12\/little-by-little-idahos-hard-hit-housing-market-begins-to-revive\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a title=\"Investors And New Homebuyers Square Off In Boise\u2019s Fierce Housing Market\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/06\/07\/investors-and-new-homebuyers-square-off-in-boises-fierce-housing-market\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RealtyTrac&#8217;s midyear foreclosure report gives emphasis to the mantra we&#8217;ve been hearing all year about Idaho&#8217;s housing market: it&#8217;s improving. Idaho still clocks in at 16th on the housing data provider&#8217;s ranking of states&#8217; foreclosure rates.\u00a0 But RealtyTrac&#8217;s numbers show the state&#8217;s rate fell by more than 10 percent from April through June, and by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":7908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[40,46],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}