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

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

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

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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Portland – Forbes: America’s Best Long Term Real Estate Bets!

Check out Forbes Magazine; America’s Best Long-Term Real Estate Bets! We’re number 9! Forbes.comevaluated the country’s 40 largest Census-defined metro areas using the last 25 years of NAHB data.  They examined new construction and vacancy rates to calculate historical

Portland Oregon Along the Willamette River

fluctuations in supply and demand against national averages. Moody’s Economy.com provided job-growth [...]

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Pricing Your Home in The New World of Real Estate

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

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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Oregon Foreclosure Rate

Every day that goes by we continue to see signs of a “normal” Portland area real estate market. In talking with a client of mine who lives in San Jose California, the perception is that just about every home on the market there is in foreclosure. Prices have dropped dramatically in that region and once again [...]

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The Media and the Real Estate Market

It seems I often find myself in conversations where someone is pointing at the media claiming they are the cause of the real estate slow down. Clearly that is not the case as they are simply reporting information about the various down markets country. The cause of the slow down comes as a natural response to [...]

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