Portland Real Estate Investing

As active Portland real estate agents, and investors, we come across great deals all the time.  It’s a great time to be a buyer of Portland real estate and start building your nest egg.  We are seeing some great deals on bank owned property, short sales, and those with looming foreclosure dates.  Whether you are [...]

Sellers

Part of our core service for home sellers is to provide a staging consult to make our clients’ homes more appealing to prospective buyers.    It’s artistic, but it’s science too.  Maybe more science.  Retailers know that good merchandising can dramatically increase sales.    It’s about presentation that appeals to the sub-conscious, and about nudging buyers to adopt [...]

Finance-Mortgages

Rates down a bit this week after a big jump last week.  If you are thinking about refinancing or buying real estate in Portland, rates are looking pretty good right now.
30 Year Fixed            5.0%
FHA 30 Year Fixed    5.25%
Stay tuned as rates have been up and down lately.  We will provide another update next week.

Community - Lifestyle

When we meet with families that are looking to move to Portland, or even looking to move across town, school assignments are frequently the MOST important determinant of where our clients are choosing to live.  As many of you know, one of the priorities of the Gates Foundation is investing to improve education.  I was [...]

Lake Oswego

Lake Oswego luxury home in successful community - Village on the Lake

•Live, work, and entertain in a well designed, thoughtfully updated family home.
•Join an engaged, active, and well-organized community of successful neighbors.
•Enjoy the lake’s finest private marina, just a short walk away.
•Educate your children at some of the top-rated public schools in the area.

SE Portland

Built in 1883, this farmhouse is one of the original homes in the Sellwood neighborhood of Southeast Portland.  Great location just a block from the New Seasons and short walk to Sellwood’s antique row, shops, cafe’s and parks.
Opportunity for a live/work space utilizing a side entrance perfect for office, therapy room, or other business of [...]

Caring for your Home

It may still be cold and rainy here in Portland, but the calendar says it’s spring. Here are a few tips to tackle spring cleaning without using chemicals and generating waste

Buyers

We had previously predicted that our market will retreat 20-25% from the peak on 2Q 2007.  By the end of January, the median price in our market is down 16%.  The leading indicators (total housing inventory, inventory of bank-owned and short sale properties, and vacant inventory) do not yet suggest we’re approaching the bottom in [...]

Portland Real Estate Market Update

Keller Williams produces This Month in Real Estate Video, where industry experts talk about the real estate market from a national perspective.

Western Suburbs

Classic split level home with spacious floor plan. Large bright kitchen that opens to new back deck. Large fenced backyard. Master plus two additional bedrooms on main floor. Family room and larger bedroom on lower level. Extensive built-ins. Oversized garage. Great value in Beaverton.

NW Portland

Spacious home in wonderful Terra Linda neighborhood of NW Portland. Extensive updates include Hardiplank siding, new vinyl windows, tile floors & counter tops, light fixtures.  Walk to schools, shopping, park. Great location and very quite street in the heart of the neighborhood!
Downstairs laundry room utility room, two additional bedrooms and family room with [...]

NE Portland

English-style beauty in the heart of the Wilshire neighborhood of Northeast Portland. Main level features hardwood floors, coved ceilings, formal living room with fireplace. Remodeled kitchen with Italian tile and dining room with large picture window. Completely finished lower level with family room, laundry and two additional bonus rooms that could be [...]

Pearl District, Downtown - Condos

Thinking about buying a condo or loft in Portland’s Pearl District? There are currently just over 200 active listings in Portland’s Pearl District. Prices this month range from $149,000 for the entry level and all the way up to $2,950,000 for Penthouse in The Metropolitan. The average list price for a condo [...]