Treasure Valley market questions, answered with local data
Most national real estate headlines do not survive contact with Treasure Valley numbers. These pages take a common claim and check it against Census and Intermountain MLS data for Ada, Canyon, Gem and Boise counties.
Every figure names its source. Where the data will not support an honest answer, the page says so instead of guessing.
How old are homes in the Treasure Valley?
The median valley home was built in 1996 — sixteen years newer than the national median. The typical home that actually sold was built in 2019. Median year built for Boise, Meridian, Nampa, Star and Parma.
Do sellers in the Boise area cut their price before selling?
36% did, across 17,066 sales. The typical sale closed at 98.9% of the original ask but exactly 100% of the final ask — which says the negotiating happens in the list price, before an offer ever arrives.
Where these numbers come from
Census figures are American Community Survey five-year estimates. Sales figures are pulled directly from the Intermountain MLS, not from a national portal's estimate of our market. The pulls are run and checked before anything gets written.
New questions get added most months. If there is one you want answered, send it over — that is genuinely how most of these start.
Have a question about your own place?
Send me the address and I will go look — what year it went up, what is likely due on it, and what comparable homes have actually sold for. No pitch attached.
Jim Reidenbaugh
Reidenbaugh & Associates at Realty ONE Group Professionals
(208) 921-9805 · [email protected]
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Figures are reported from the sources named on each page. Nothing here is a prediction, or legal, tax, or financial advice. Equal Housing Opportunity.
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