Billings Real Estate Market Charts

While other markets in the country continue to struggle, Billings, Montana remains a strong and steady market. The March Billings Real Estate market charts tell the story.

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Love and Marriage

Seen on a Billings billboard! Join me on the Facebook Group BILLINGS and share YOUR photos of our fair city!

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Talking, Texting and Driving

We all do it – talk and drive. Now the need to constantly talk includes texting, the preferred way to “talk” these days. If A + B = C, then it stands to reason that we people who drive will now text while we drive. And there is no group of people more guilty of this (besides Gen Y-lol) than REALTORS.

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Billings Parade of Homes

Twice a year the Home Builders Association of Billings presents the Parade of Homes. Local interior designers collaborate with Billings premier home builders to stage the homes and the result is a tour of houses worth seeing.

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Earth Day in Billings, Montana

The biggest local celebration today will be at the Good Earth Market, Billings’ organic co-op market. It’s downtown, on the corner of North 31st Street and 2nd Avenue North.

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Billings Housing Market Stats

First of all, let me warn you that the Billings housing market stats are, well, dated.  That’s because our MLS system thinks that only brokers should have any access to market data.  So, the info is not very current.  Never mind that there are many tools out there that make housing market data current and [...]

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Music in Billings

Everywhere you turn there is music in Billings.  Live music.  Played by top drawer, seriously talented musicians.  It wasn’t always so. Live music venues disappeared for about twenty years.  And it wasn’t because of disco.  It was the economy.  The oil industry cratered and so did the fun and the money.  But, luckily, times change. [...]

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Real Estate Transfer Taxes in Montana

Real Estate Transfer Tax must be defeated in Montana. How to do it? A constitutional amendment.

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Spring is here; the Cars are out!

A sure sign the Spring is here are the cars that come out of storage, get uncloaked, and hit the streets.  This weekend we got the sign!  The weather was cold and overcast, but…the cars were out.  Here are a couple that I saw.  The Camaro is an SS, so hot – 6 speed, V8 [...]

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The Divorce /Rebound House

The divorce /rebound house – just say no!  A couple of years ago a fellow blogger, Teresa Boardman of St. Paul, Minnesota, wrote a post about people who start looking for a new house right after an emotional event.  Usually, it’s a divorce.  Her comments reminded me of my own experience with clients when I [...]

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