After a very challenging winter, coupled with stints of brutally cold weather and piles of snow in December, January, and February, Montana's real estate has showed strong signs of growth. There are 7 major markets that data is pulled from, including: Billings, Bitterroot Valley, Gallatin Valley, Great Falls, Helena, Missoula, and Northwest Montana. The Helena and Kalispell areas saw the highest percentage of growth, coming in at 16% and 14.2% respectively.

Experts are expecting to see this trend continue for the rest of 2014 and into 2015.  With strong commercial construction taking place in Missoula, with the recent sale of the Mercantile building and the continued expansion of South Crossing, there's good reason for optimism in the Missoula housing market.  

This link shows more in depth the Missoula Real Estate numbers for the past 5 years, click here - Montana Housing Statistics

Source: Missoulian