Realtor/Coach/Trainer
No. You shouldn’t wait. The house from the picture had two offers yesterday. On one of the worst days of this stom in Portland offers still came in. If you are waiting for Spring it is because you don’t think houses sell now. Talking to a friend who is using another Realtor, it happens, he […]
After opening up the search page you can toggle to search for short sales and foreclosure homes. It uses keywords and an algorithm to pick them out of the RMLS. Another fun search that should yield a list of motivated sellers is this one. You can search by days listed and, this one surprises me, […]
When Warren Buffet speaks, I pay attention. What the Bailout does for taxpayers. Lien on the Nines luxury hotel for about $6.5 million. The Pearl’s biggest developer gives his opinion on the Portland Market from his vantage point.
The full Market Action Report is here. Virtually the same number of homes for sale on the market as last year. As many listings as I have, look to your right, I would have guessed more. Year over year we are down 2.2% for Median Price which doesn’t seem like much in relative terms. I […]
For awhile I was reporting on the numbers, statistics and prognostications that I found quite often. It is seductive to report the good news about our market. Makes us feel good. But the numbers are interpreted by whoever compiles them and compared to other numbers that someone else put together and there is at least […]
Aroundthesunblog.com is aptly titled for the weekend weather we are going to have. Here are two events today out of many for the weekend that sound interesting, Portland Actors Ensemble will perform Julius Caesar in Washington Park at 7:30 pm. Visit the PAE website for details. Environmental Film Event: The film Kilowatt Ours will be […]
This is a pretty cool program. Allison just had a tree put in her yard and was giddy to help out. “During the 2007-08 planting season, more than 2,000 volunteers planted 1,852 street and yard trees in 62 Portland and Vancouver neighborhoods. Please visit our planting schedule to see if we’re planting in your neighborhood […]
There are many reasons to love Portland but I just want to list the overall benefits of our location and climate. We mayhave incidents of the items I list but it isn’t so much that anyone expects these things. I love Portland because we don’t have: Tornadoes Rattlesnakes Hurricanes Scorpions Earthquakes Droughts Floods (at least […]
I originally wrote this in 2008: Small is really big now. (Terrible play of words but I had to.) Somehow as families got smaller, homes got bigger. In the 50’s the average size home was about 1300 sf . Now it is over 2000 sf. Thanks to credit we could buy more stuff and we […]
Talking with a sewer repair man I learned that there have been quite a few problems with new construction sewer lines. When I first started in real estate I did what most rookie agents do, I never pushed my clients to do a home inspection on new construction. “It’s new.” “They will fix anything wrong […]
Creative Home Engineering specializes in secret doors. (Above is a picture from a recent Street Of Dreams Home.) You have no idea how much I love hidden rooms. I don’t know where it comes from but I saw one when I was a kid and it floored me. Up in a loft where everything […]
No trick photography here. I don’t have photoshop or the skills to plant ducks into it. They just flew over me while I was snapping pictures at Westmoreland Park to add photos to my Berkeley Place listing.
Full article from Yahoo! here. After falling for six straight months, sales of existing homes posted an unexpected increase in February which may have reflected more aggressive price cutting by sellers in some parts of the country, a real estate trade group reported. Trends are more important than blips. One month does not equal much. […]
Thanks to Around The Sun Blog for this weekend’s list. My favorite? Flashlight Egg Hunt in Lake Oswego: Kids aged 11 to 15 are invited to hunt for candy and prizes at Foothills Park (199 Foothills Drive) at 8:00 pm (arrive 10 minutes early). Bring a flashlight and basket. For more information, visit the Lake Oswego […]
This is what I overheard yesterday. Two gentlemen were talking and one asked what the other did. “A little commercial real estate, some foreclosure stuff, you know.” The other guy said, “I am waiting for the prices to come down further before I get back to buying foreclosures.” They walked away and I missed out […]
