Real Estate
Real Estate Taxes in Montana – Insight on Assessment and Appeal
Real estate taxes and the methodology that creates the final numbers can be confusing and frustrating at times – but it is a pill we have to swallow. The last cycle for property appraisal in Montana was in 2008 – and things have a tendency...
Fed Looks at Effects of Hypothetical Rate Rise
Fed Zeroes In on Vulnerability to Rate Rise By Victoria McGrane | The Wall Street Journal – 13 hours ago The Federal Reserve is scrutinizing the nation’s biggest banks to ensure they can handle an eventual rise in interest rates, as con...
Local investors apply to build up to 40 housing units on north side city block – The Bozeman Daily Chronicle: City
A group of local investors has applied to build two rows of four-story duplexes containing up to 40 homes on an entire city block downtown. HomeBase of Bozeman and investors have applied to the city Planning Department to build “Block M.�...
Gallatin Forest to start electrical line upgrade
The electrical line servicing Big Sky has been inadequate for quite some time. An EIS has been issued for the proposed route for a new transmission line through Gallatin Canyon and is now within its 45 day appeal period. Gallatin Forest to s...
The path less traveled: Young Montanans leave cities to farm
Back to the country – Montana is seeing quite a few younger folks leaving the city for life in the country. by Tom Lutey, Associated Press BRUSETT — It’s 9 a.m. and the vast Eastern Montana prairie in Casey Coulter’s windshiel...
Is your vacation rental legal?
The City of Bozeman requires vacation rentals to be permitted. This is an interesting article that ran in last Sunday’s paper about the issue. by Amanda Ricker When the housing market collapsed in Bozeman, Phil Sgamma feared the ban...
Bozeman builders will be allowed to defer impact fees
The City of Bozeman has decided to allow developers to ‘defer’ their payment of impact fees until the Certificate of Occupancy is granted – this allows builders to not have to ‘up front’ the cost of the fees at the start of constructi...
Update: Spanish Peaks assets for sale – Bids accepted until April 19.
I wrote a post about the status of the Spanish Peaks reorganization and sale earlier this year. This can be viewed here. Here is an update on the saga. This article ran in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle on April 1. And luckily it wasn’t an Ap...