Home prices, including distressed sales, rose 4.6 percent nationwide in August compared to a year earlier, the largest year-over-year increase since July 2006. The August increase marks the sixth-consecutive monthly home price increase. In the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro metro area, home prices, including distressed sales, were up 4 percent in August compared to a year earlier […]

  When you've just finally bought that new house, and you're dying to fix it up, but you're out of cash, here's a cute, affordable headboard idea. Whatisblik.com has the cutest wall decals of headboards for only $40.  That'll hold you until you get that cool West Elm bed.    

Portland’s newest streetcar line (and the first on the city’s eastside in more than 50 years) opens in less than a month on September 22, 2012. In anticipation of this substantial expansion to the existing streetcar network, Mayor Sam Adams, along with members of the Portland Streetcar board and Bureau of Transportation, rode on the […]

The National Association of Realtors has released the following stats for the 2nd quarter of 2012.  I continue to be busy, but never too busy to help someone new.