Auctionable, a new real estate tech company based in Liberty Lake, plans to launch this spring in the Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, and Boise markets, says Todd Sullivan, an Inland Northwest homebuilder and cofounder of the startup. Sullivan says the

YMCA of the Inland Northwest has purchased 15 acres of vacant land for $3.4 million in the Moran Prairie neighborhood on Spokane's South Hill, where the nonprofit plans to build a new fitness facility.

Ag Energy Solutions Inc., a Spokane-based agricultural renewable technology company, has been acquired by Pullman, Washington-based plant and tree fruit producer NuPhy Inc.

Some real estate professionals here say anticipated increases in mortgage interest rates this year could price median-income homebuyers out of the market, while others say they don't anticipate immediate widespread disruption in the current market.

Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. plans to shed more than 100,000 square feet of office space in Liberty Lake this year as a portion of the company's 1,150-person workforce here shifts to working from home permanently.

Greenstone Corp. is developing a new mixed-use town center called the NoLL, with its first building to be open fully as soon as next month in the River District.

Kootenai Health has started construction of a $37.3 million heart center expansion on its main hospital campus in Coeur d'Alene. The heart center will grow to 13 operating rooms from 11 and expand to five procedure rooms from three to meet the needs