Some interesting history of downtown Coeur d’Alene, ID - what has growth and progress changed?

This is an interesting read - combining history of the growth of the area with “what’s going to happen now” scenarios.
As a surge of traveling motorists teemed across the U.S. in the decade after World War II, roadside motels sprouted up along the east end of Coeur d’Alene’s Sherman Avenue, which then carried U.S. 10, [...]

I “stumbled upon” this today - interesting . . .

F. Lewis Clark was born in Bangor, Maine, June 21, 1861. In 1884 he established the C. & O. Mill and elevator, the largest flouring mill in the Pacific Northwest. In 1910 Clark built a 15,000 sq. ft. mansion as a summer home in Hayden Lake, Idaho with his wife Winifred. The “Honeysuckle Lodge” was [...]

The Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Metro area is growing like crazy . . .

One of my main goals for this blog has been to provide accurate information, from stats to statements.  Everything factual, provable, accurate.  One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone spouts off information that is inaccurate.  Even bigger, is when it is a colleague or someone working within the real estate industry.
If you ever [...]

The New York Times Loves North Idaho

Why else would they keep profiling our wonderful slice of heaven in their widely read newspaper??  Today they wrote a fabulous article about Kellogg - a sleepy ski town just 30 minutes due east of Coeur d’Alene.  An area expected to have real estate appreciation this year (1 of about 25 towns throughout the nation [...]

Mortgage Lender Regulations Tighten

“On Wednesday, Idaho became one of seven states, and the only one in the West, to take action to help prevent abuses when the Idaho Department of Finance began participating in the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System.”
Information about gaining access to and setting up a record in the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System can be found on [...]

State of the City: Post Falls Idaho

As 2008 President-Elect of the Coeur d’Alene Chapter of the Women’s Council of Realtors, it was my privilege to attend today’s Power Luncheon hosted by Kirsten Donovan at STCU.
Today’s Power Luncheon speaker was Post Falls Mayor Clay Larkin. Clay spoke on the “state of the city” and frankly, 2008 is looking pretty darn awesome [...]

Idaho is 4th in the nation for growth | Idaho grows faster than 46 other states in 2007!

Idaho is the fourth fastest-growing state for the third year in a row, The U.S. Census Bureau reported Dec. 27. Idaho added more than 35,000 residents — a 2.4 percent increase — between July 1, 2006, and July 1, 2007, for a total population of 1,499,402, the state Department of Labor said in a release.
Standing [...]

Coeur d’Alene - Contender for Money Magazine’s Best Places to Live Top 100

My lovely home-town of Coeur d’Alene Idaho is a contender for Money Magazine’s Top 100 Best Places to Live, 2007. They’ve compiled some fairly accurate information (and quite a bit of info actually) about the area. Enjoy.

 

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Are you retiring ‘young’? Then you are likely to want to retire right here in Coeur d’Alene

After all, Money Magazine ranked Coeur d’Alene as the number one place to ‘retire young’.
Specific criteria used in making up the list of best places follow:

Population growth: We wanted positive growth since 1990.
Near major metropolitan area: within 100 miles.
Housing cost: below $350,000, with a few exceptions. We’re showing current median housing prices (asking prices) for [...]

Sperlings Best Places | Top 10 Best Places to Live | Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

Well, unfortunately Coeur d’Alene didn’t rank on the actual list of the Ten Best Places to Live. Where we did rank was on the Emerging Metropolitan Areas, number 5 in fact. My best guess as to what this means is that there aren’t enough people that know about Coeur d’Alene for us to [...]