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Portland Metro Area market data

North Portland is seeing explosive growth as well as Oregon City!  

Tips for Selling Your Portland Home!

                           

8 Tasks For Every Home Buyer or Seller Considering a Move in 2013

Thinking about buying or selling a home this year? Congrats! Below are seven tasks you can accomplish now that will help your chances of home buying or selling in 2013! 1. Handle your credit issues. Maybe you don’t have any credit issues or at least you think you don’t. So this is the time to […]

Portland First Time Homebuyer Negotiating Tips

                                 

Homes Appreciating Throughout Most of Portland

This graphic shows median sales prices, average times on market, and appreciation/depreciation by area (Tigard, North Portland, Lake Oswego, Milwaukie, etc.). For most of 2012 we have seen little if any appreciation, however, this graphic is showing us that most areas are now seeing appreciation and some high numbers at that! Also, Days on Market […]

Do short sales actually sell?

The Realtor Multiple Listing Service (RMLS) of Portland did a breakdown of the entire Portland areas’ short sales, bank owned and regular listings and how they compare. It shows that of those listings, how many actually sold. For short sales this is valuable information. I often have clients ask me how long short sales take […]

Beautifully Done Video of Portland. This Is A Must See!

Finding Portland from Uncage the Soul Productions on Vimeo.

Biking in Portland

Biking in Portland is one of the things that sets our city apart from others. It is well known that Portland is very bike friendly and that a large number, in comparison to other cities, commute by bike. Now whether you are a driver or biker or whether you loathe or love biking, you can’t […]

Improving your Local Portland Business District

Neighborhoodnotes.com is a great site that combines business owners and neighbors to create local news for Portland.  I often check the site when I’m feeling the need to be inspired about the local happenings in our area.  Today I saw this article on, “How to Improve Your Neighborhood’s Business District.”  Likely you live near some […]

Say Goodbye to The Buyer’s Market in Portland!

In the blink of an eye we went from a buyer’s market to a seller’s market.  How did this happen and what does that even mean you say?  Well, it means that inventory has gone way down.  Wayyyy down.  So when there’s less to choose from, it gives seller’s the upper hand.  Prices are beginning […]