Homes

CLINTON — A leading home builder and 30 homeowners living in Cranefield Estates, a high-end residential development, are debating the fine points of what a clubhouse is and the amenities it should contain.

The homeowners want a meeting place where they can gather for special occasions, while Ivory Homes Development officials are envisioning a pool and spa area with a picnic pavilion.

The two sides are meeting to find a middle ground.

BOISE, Idaho -- A federal grand jury in Boise has indicted two former Idaho residents on multiple counts of financial fraud and making false statements on mortgage applications.

SYRACUSE -- The city council has given final approval to a 66-unit subdivision project in the southern end of the city.

BOUNTIFUL -- Firefighters are reminding residents to use caution when using alternate heat sources after a husband and wife suffered carbon monoxide poisoning Friday morning.

CENTERVILLE -- A new dam is expected to have a major impact on 181 homes formerly within a 100-year flood plain.

This week, officials sent a letter to those affected residents informing them they are no longer in a flood plain. City Manager Steve Thacker explained that the city has had the flood plain map amended by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and it was made official Aug. 23.

CLEARFIELD -- After more than 50 years of memories, Nancy Greger decided her childhood home could better serve someone else -- so she gave it away.

Greger and her husband, Ron, donated the Clearfield home she grew up in to Habitat for Humanity of Weber and Davis Counties on Monday.

Greger's parents, John and Nancy McEntee, purchased the home in 1958.

If the housing market were human, it would look like it just wrestled a few alligators, after running an obstacle course through a snake pit.

The market is beaten and bruised, but still trying to emerge from the recession, which is why Greg Rand, a 20-year real estate veteran and author of Crash Boom (www.crashboom.com) from Career Press, wants people to know about five new trends that could help them beat the housing blues.

"One of the key elements of a free market is chaos," Rand said. "Chaos is how the markets figure out how to move forward.