A landmark rule from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) will impose new reporting obligations on certain real estate professionals. For the first time nationwide, title agents, closing and settlement professionals, attorneys, and others involved in all-cash (non-financed) residential property transfers to LLCs, trusts, or similar legal entities must submit a Real Estate Report to FinCEN.

Whether you’re preparing to sell or to buy, understanding what’s allowed, what’s required, and what’s changed in recent years can save you time, money and frustration. We consulted Gwen Victorson of the Idaho Department of Lands.

Only 15% of buyers can walk into an empty space and envision how they might live in it. The rest need help. Furnishings give them that help. They provide context, scale, and emotion—transforming silence into story. And for high-value properties, telling the right story—visually and emotionally—makes the difference between lingering on the market and selling.

The settlement of the Sitzer-Burnett lawsuit got a lot of traditional media coverage. It got much more hand-wringing on YouTube and in comment sections across the social media landscape. The required practice changes, which are widely misunderstood, are being implemented unevenly across the nation, including in Idaho. We will recap how this affects the owners of high-value properties as they consider a sale.

Conjectures about property values are dangerous whether they come from a real estate salesperson, neighbor, builder or anyone else. Accurate valuations take real work. Valuations for high-value properties can go sideways for two reasons.