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Home Builders and Home Building Surge

Home Builders and Home Building Surge

January 6, 2012

For Portland's landlords and home-builders it paid to heed Warren Buffet's adage of "buying when others are fearful". The industry surged in November and is ...

Understanding The Value of a Good School in a Declining Market

Understanding The Value of a Good School in a Declining Market

September 18, 2011

Property values are influenced by surrounding amenities. In a recessionary environment some of these amenities become more important than others. Here's how ...

Rasheed Wallace Still Won’t Budge on Price of Portland Home

Rasheed Wallace Still Won’t Budge on Price of Portland Home

August 30, 2011

Rasheed Wallace, one-time Portland Blazers forward, has been trying to sell his luxury Portland home for the past five years. As the market has corrected more ...

South Waterfront Gets a $134 Million Boost

South Waterfront Gets a $134 Million Boost

June 30, 2011

Another multi-million dollar infrastructure project is getting under way in Portland's South Waterfront District. The project has raised serious funding ...

South Waterfront Condos Benefit From Public Spending

South Waterfront Condos Benefit From Public Spending

February 22, 2011

Having survived multiple auctions and plummeting homes prices, condo projects in Portland's South Waterfront District are quietly emerging from the doldrums as ...

Portland Multifamily Market Picks Up Steam

Portland Multifamily Market Picks Up Steam

January 6, 2011

2010 marked the year with the lowest number of apartments constructed in Portland, OR in more than 30 years. Things are expected to change dramatically in 2011 ...

Officially Motivated Sellers

May 7, 2010

Roughly 20 sellers are currently advertising their Portland listing as "motivated seller". Here's their product.

Portland’s New Class Of Income Properties

Portland’s New Class Of Income Properties

April 19, 2010

Finding a property in Portland that cash-flows has not been an easy task over the last couple of years. Even as home prices started to decline, the efforts of ...

Portland’s Close-In Eastside On The Rebound?

Portland’s Close-In Eastside On The Rebound?

February 23, 2010

Not too long ago many Portland area sub-markets were looking at 10-15 months of inventory. That’s still the case for some, but others such as ...

Banks Unload More Than 1000 Homes In Portland in '09

Banks Unload More Than 1000 Homes In Portland in '09

December 29, 2009

Of the roughly 7,500 homes that sold in within Portland’s city limits in 2009, more than a thousand were bank-owned. Single-family homes represented the ...

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