The new Aspen?

So you think you want to buy a house in Boise? Where the region’s median home prices are at record highs, construction is still below precrash levels and West Coast ex-pats are flocking in, flush with cash and amazed at all the real estate “bargains”?Buckle your seat belt. And take a little hard-earned advice from Mike Daniels.He is 47, a blue-collar worker and Chicago native who fell in love with Boise, wanted to buy a house on a tree-lined street in the City of Trees and grow old here with his wife, Dee.Sadly, the capital of the fastest-growing state in America played hard to get. Because it could.In June 2017, the middle of the Daniels’ home search, 35 percent of the houses sold in Ada County went for more than their list price. One in five was sold for cash. Houses were spending less time on the market than they had since 2006, the climax of the last housing boom.

Well, well.... The fastest growing state in the union, low crime rate, great mountains, a bit cold.