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5 Things To Know If You Want To Sell In A Hurry

Posted in Beaverton Oregon homes for sale, Beaverton Real Estate, Beaverton Real Estate For Sale, Home selling mistakes, Homes for sale in Beaverton Oregon, Multnomah County, Portland Oregon, Portland Oregon Real Estate Market, Real Estate Trends Portland Oregon, Realtors Beaverton Oregon, SW Portland homes for sale, Steve Schwab, Steve Schwab Group, The Steve Schwab Group, Washington County, first time home buyer, first time home buyer tax credit, first time home buyers, mistakes in selling home, real estate, www.SteveSchwabGroup.com, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »

The real estate market is rolling along and homes are selling. If you are in the market to buy a home, sell a home or are simply watching trends in your area, you are probably seeing a mixture of some homes that sell and some that don’t. I have had regular conversations with clients who [...]

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Oregon Foreclosures

Posted in Beaverton Real Estate, Clackamas County, Multnomah County, Portland Oregon, Portland Oregon Real Estate Market, Real Estate Trends Portland Oregon, Steve Schwab Group, Washington County, real estate, www.SteveSchwabGroup.com, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Recently many banks and other institutions such as Fannie Mae, have removed their foreclosure moratoriums which was bound to have the impact of increased foreclosures flooding the market. Well it has impacted the Oregon real estate market. In March we saw foreclosures rise more than 100% from the month of March, 2008! Up 107%, a [...]

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2 Years and Counting

Posted in Beaverton Oregon homes for sale, Beaverton Real Estate, Beaverton Real Estate For Sale, Homes for sale in Beaverton Oregon, Portland Oregon, Portland Oregon Real Estate Market, Real Estate Appreciation Portland Oregon, Real Estate Trends Portland Oregon, SW Portland homes for sale, Steve Schwab, Steve Schwab Group, The Steve Schwab Group, Washington County, real estate, www.SteveSchwabGroup.com, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

For some reason I saved an MSNBC news story from June 19th 2007, almost 2 years ago, which discusses the housing downturn at that time and questioned whether or not we were close to the bottom. Almost 2 years later we still don’t know when we will find the bottom. Written by John W. Schoen, [...]

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Interest Rates at record lows – Is it time to buy??

Posted in Beaverton Real Estate, Beaverton Real Estate For Sale, Homes for sale in Beaverton Oregon, Portland Oregon, Portland Oregon Real Estate Market, Real Estate Appreciation Portland Oregon, Real Estate Trends Portland Oregon, Realtors Beaverton Oregon, SW Portland homes for sale, Steve Schwab, Steve Schwab Group, The Steve Schwab Group, Washington County, first time home buyer, first time home buyers, real estate, www.SteveSchwabGroup.com, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The answer to that question is a straight forward YES! Just today Freddie Mac, who’s job it is to connect Wall Street and main street with mortgage purchases and portfolio investment activities, reported that 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.78 percent with an average 0.7 point for the week ending April 2, 2009, down from last week [...]

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Pricing Your Home in The New World of Real Estate

Posted in Beaverton Oregon homes for sale, Beaverton Real Estate, Beaverton Real Estate For Sale, Homes for sale in Beaverton Oregon, Steve Schwab, Steve Schwab Group, The Steve Schwab Group, Washington County, real estate, www.SteveSchwabGroup.com, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ll sit in sales meetings from time to time and listen to other Realtors, those who have been in the business for a lengthy time, talk about “how things use to be”. Clearly much about how real estate is transacted today differs from only 10 years ago. It seems it is still changing almost every [...]

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Selling Your Home in a Buyers Market

Posted in Beaverton Oregon homes for sale, Beaverton Real Estate, Beaverton Real Estate For Sale, Home selling mistakes, Homes for sale in Beaverton Oregon, Portland Oregon, Portland Oregon Real Estate Market, Real Estate Appreciation Portland Oregon, Real Estate Representation, Real Estate Trends Portland Oregon, Realtors Beaverton Oregon, Steve Schwab, Steve Schwab Group, The Steve Schwab Group, Washington County, mistakes in selling home, www.SteveSchwabGroup.com, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Ask just about any seller of a home available currently in the Portland Oregon housing market, things are tough! It use to be 2-3 showings a weeks was average. Now, if you get that many in a month you’re lucky!
So how does a seller get leverage and move closer to that offer and sale? In [...]

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