‘Brutal’ housing prices hit America’s Zoom towns – markets once flourishing in the pandemic

When Miriam Stocking listed her house for sale in March in the Boise, Idaho, area, she was not inundated with multiple offers.

Instead, she received one offer above the $725,000 asking price but the buyers soon backed out saying they’d decided they wanted an open-floor plan instead.

By June, she’d closed on a deal that was $25,000 below asking.