Red Tail lot sales top $1.8 million

The bottom of the tape for sales of Red Tail Ridge sites along the North Palouse River totaled more than $1.8 million dollars, according to real estate excise tax records in the county treasurer’s office. Washington Land & Ranches of Prescott, Ariz., developed and marketed the lots in the new Colfax rural residential zone.

Land & Ranches bought the property after it was moved out of the county and into the city’s newly created rural residential zone which was much less restrictive than county requirements. City officials pushed for the annexation as a means of adding property value to the city...