Three property transactions made the week's real estate coverage, and a pattern is hard to miss: out-of-state buyers are active, they're moving fast, and they're filing homestead declarations the same day they close — a sign that at least some of them intend to make Montana home rather than treat it as an investment property. Kara Meiler Stately Ashton recorded a deed, mortgage, and homestead declaration on G and B Tracts property in a single day. A separate buyer did the same on a Lewis and Clark County home previously held by the Cartan and Brazy Family Living Trust. The week's marquee sale — a five-bedroom home on Green Acres Drive that went for $875,000 — rounds out a picture of a market where high-end inventory is moving. Lewis and Clark County logged 256 mentions in this week's coverage, second only to Helena itself, and the real estate desk has now tracked same-day deed-mortgage-homestead filings in multiple consecutive weeks. For longtime Helena residents watching home prices, the trend is familiar: demand is outpacing inventory, and buyers who can move quickly — often those arriving with out-of-state equity — are the ones closing deals.