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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2007 Home Sales Fifth Best In History

Everywhere we seem to turn there is bad news about the housing market. Whether it’s your local newspaper or the evening news on television, we seem to be getting the same message presented to us daily. However, the 2007 market was the better than you may have thought it was and was in fact the [...]

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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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