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Following is an overview of the Kalispell Montana real estate results for the residential market as of December 2022. This report covers the entire residential market, including single family homes, townhouses, condominiums and manufactured homes.  While the Kalispell residential market remains o...

This report covers the residential land market in Kalispell Montana as of the end of December 2022. Land sales continue to remain low and available inventory declined slightly. The residential land market in Kalispell has slowed from the robustness of the last few years. Additionally, unlike the ...

I recently found an online directory of Kalispell City ordinances and thought it'd be interesting to see what some of ordinances of the past were. So first, I went back to the very first entry in the online directory, which is from 1904. It's ordinance number 169 so there are probably 168 ordinan...

On the last afternoon of the very last work day of 2022, my buyer clients were able to close on their townhouse at 140 Barron Way in Kalispell Montana. They purchased this as an investment property and are planning to rent this three bedroom, two bath home first thing in the New Year!140 Barron W...

Joan Cox recently shared new laws that will be effective in her state as of January 1st, 2023. I thought doing that was a great idea - to share information about new legislation so residents would be aware. So I decided to do the same thing for Montana and subsequently did a bunch of research onl...

For most people, when they need more bread, it's time for a trip to the store. And if they have special likes or dislikes, it could mean trips to several stores to get the right bread. If their favorite store doesn't have their favorite bread, then what? They are out of luck! This could have desc...

We all have our own traditions when it comes to the holidays. And when it comes to Christmas trees, some people swear by artificial trees. Some love fresh trees. We're in the second camp, and here is how we go about getting our annual Christmas tree.So to those who suggested that I should have go...

I am a Habitat for Humanity® volunteer in the Flathead Valley of Montana. This short post provides a summary of what it is like to volunteer with this organization, just in case you are interested in doing so. So click on the video at the bottom of this post to find out: What is a typical day lik...

Jeff Dowler, CRS  and Brian England are co-hosting a December 2022 Challenge called A Guide for Blogging Success.  The challenge is to write about what we should or shouldn't do when blogging. We can either do two posts or one, and I'm opting for the latter. A tip that can lead to a successful bl...

This report covers the residential land market in Kalispell Montana as of the end of November 2022. Land sales continue to remain low and available inventory declined slightly. The residential land market in Kalispell has slowed from the robustness of the last few years.  INVENTORYAs of early Nov...