Kelley’s Market Trends: Western Montana Home Prices Comparing Flathead County’s home price trend to other counties' trends in Western Montana BY JIM KELLEY // MAR 8, 2017 // LATEST HEADLINES, NEWS & FEATURES This week let’s look at how Flathead County’s home price trend relates to other counties in Western Montana. At the peak of the [...]

BUILDER The analysis shows that the poorest households in the country face the largest shortage of affordable and available rental housing. By Jennifer Goodman A new report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) finds a shortage of 7.4 million affordable and available rental homes for extremely low income (ELI) renter households, those with incomes [...]

What Is a Dual Master Suite? A Way to Snag More Privacy (and Sleep) By Audrey Ference | Feb 8, 2017 elsar77/iStock A home just seems more impressive if it comes with a master suite—meaning a large bedroom with a private bath, perhaps a walk-in closet, and other luxuries for you, the proud owner. Lately you may [...]

Tankless water heaters were widely used in Europe and Japan long before they became popular in the United States. Thanks to the rise of the sustainability movement, these energy-saving appliances are now well established in the U.S. market. Todd Hodges on Sunday, Jan 15th, 2017 According to the U.S. Department of Energy, water heating contributes to [...]

Technological advances in construction will represent a huge shift for the building and real estate industries in the next decade. Are you ready? JANUARY 2017 | BY MEG WHITE Imagine if all shoes were still made by hand. While you might yearn for the return of the artisan craft of cobblery, Behrokh Khoshnevis pours cold water [...]

Home buyers are willing to pay more to bask in natural light and multiply living space Brought to you by Marvin Windows and Doors Call it a big glass revolution. No longer bound by rules that once effectively blocked the use of oversized glass in exterior home design, residential architects, builders, and developers can now offer [...]

Thoughts from CES delivered at IBS by JENNIFER CASTENSON This year’s Consumer Electronics Show was dominated by new smart home technologies, including everything from video wall paper to robots to the now insanely popular home voice control. As interesting as these technologies are to consumers, they are just as complex to builders. How can they be [...]

Think open kitchens and huge master suites will always be desirable? Think again. by Mark Ellwood January 23, 2017, 10:13 AM MST January 23, 2017, 7:33 PM MST Some real estate amenities are eternal—a sweeping view across Central Park, for instance, or a doorman who knows your favorite driver. Others, though, might prove unexpectedly faddish: What seems [...]

Builder Presenters at the 2017 International Builders’ Show debunked some of the myths surrounding residential technology that make consumers wary of the smart home. By Lauren Shanesy Photos courtesy of Vivint Smart HomeVivint's touch screen SkyControl Panel bundles all of a homeowners smart devices and displays them on one interactive screen. Smart home technology doesn’t seem [...]

BUILDER Out of the aisles and back in the trenches and job sites ... here's some take-aways and forecasts for builders as they return to the real world from the Magic Kingdom. By John McManus The big show in Orlando this week proves this much. Builders and their partners in the home building products, materials, and [...]