portland real estate

I will get used to the microphone and not so much heavy breathing. 🙂 Here is the full PDF to the Portland Metro Area 2011 Market Action

There are two kinds of people walking away from the mortgages. One has no money and the other sees it as a long-term financial decision.  Should you look at it as a cold hard decision?  Should you think of your neighbor’s values? There has been significant debate about this issue over the last year.  Even […]

Many people wondered, or predicted, that the tax credit would just steal sales away from the future.  That may very well have been the case though we can only hypothesize what would have happened if we didn’t have the tax credit, well, unless you are a politician. I wasn’t a fan of the original tax […]

I sprained my ankle really bad yesterday (picture here).  I was just stepping out of my house to go to an appointment. I locked the door and stepped back while turning and heard two pops.  Instantly I started sweating and breathing fast.  Oh, it sucked. A neighbor helped me and at first I thought I […]

Clever video; give it a minute to get into the flow. One underlying theme you might notice on my blog is that predictions don’t mean much to me. The line you hear in investment commercials, “Past performance are not indicative of future results”, is true for real estate too. For 9 years they have been […]

Politics and religion, issues not worth touching with a 100 foot poll for me.  But I want to dip my toe in to the pool to make a small point.  I have written and deleted this post a couple of times.  It was harder to write than I thought but here’s my shot. I got […]

Here is a link to the full report. The 4th quarter of 2008 was dismal and it continued through the 1st quarter of 2009. The fact that we sold 187 less homes in 2009 than 2008 shows that we stabilized those bad times. Time will tell if the stabilization holds but there is hope. I […]

Below is a list of constantly update short sale single family detached homes in Beaverton.  What is a short sale?  Click here. [idx-listings linkid=”67576″ count=”40″] Here is a map of all of the short sale homes available on a map.

This list of the most expensive homes in Beaverton is updated daily.

If you can’t beat them… Picture from Failblog.org If you have some pictures of Christmas light decorations from the area, send them too me and I will put the best up here just before Christmas or maybe come up with something even better to do with them. Send them to [email protected]

The government has extended the tax credit in length and depth.  It will go until May 1, 2010 and there is an added credit of $6500 for anyone but still $8,000 from new buyers. So where do we stand now in regards to closed sales?  In August 2009 we had 1841 closed sales in the […]

I don’t have the answer but I hope this shakes some answers out of the intertubes. I have gone to almost all of my closings. A couple of times my schedule conflicted with a rush or a change and I have only had loan officers at my closings maybe 3 times. Bad customer service. I […]

I say the 20th in the video but the book signing for Crush It! is Monday the 19th. Gary runs winelibrarytv.com and has created an empire through social media. He has influenced Realtor Ian Watt of IanWatt.ca who in turn influenced me to start doing video blogging. I find it fun but still a bit […]