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Current Portland Real Estate Market Information Q & A: What is a Short Sale?   Q&A:  What exactly is a short sale?   A short sale occurs when a bank agrees to accept less than the total amount owed on a mortgage to avoid having to foreclose on the property.  This is not a new practice; banks have been doing short sales for years.  Only during the past four […]
Current Portland Real Estate Market Information Q & A – What if we don’t get any offers?             My clients are full of questions.  People I meet socially are full of real estate questions.  Everybody has a question about real estate.  Here's a good one with a simple answer.     Q:  Sometimes you have a fabulous house, priced where the market statistics tell you it should […]
Arranmore Arranmore Construction Update There is a new house going up in Arranmore.  We have a front row seat and we're enjoying watching the construction!  Check in weekly to follow the progress.    (click on individual photos to enlarge) March 19, 2013 Siding getting completed today, just before the rain hopefully, and sounds like the internal work, wiring and flooring, […]
Current Portland Real Estate Market Information Time to get moving.             Time to get moving.    Click link for more info!     Portland Oregon Real Estate Information, House Ideas, Portland Oregon Highlights. Caryperkins.com            
Current Portland Real Estate Market Information What you shoud know about The Fiscal Cliff Bill as it pertains to Real Estate     All this talk of the Fiscal Cliff has finally subsided, but what does the bill do to your bottom line?  Here's how it pertains to Real Estate.  The legislation was passed on January 1, 2013, and signed into law by President Obama on January 2, 2013.    Real Estate Tax Extenders Mortgage Cancellation […]
Current Portland Real Estate Market Information Selling your Home during the Holidays? Selling During The Holidays? During the holidays, many sellers withdraw their properties from the market and wait until January to re-list. Most often, it’s because of family visits and holiday celebrations. Let's face it – who wants to keep their house clean enough for buyers when you're in the midst of baking, wrapping presents and […]
cary perkins Portland is a Top Choice City for Retirement According to CNN's 25 Best Places to Retire, Portland is number two! Whether you dream of retiring to a big city, small town, resort area or college town, these 25 cities offer reasonably priced homes, low crime and tax rates, quality health care, and more.   #1 Albuquerque #2 Portland Best if you're looking for: […]
Current Portland Real Estate Market Information Restaurant Alert! Yaw’s is back! Yaw's is legendary in old Portland…this drive-in restaurant in Hollywood was the cause of many traffic jams and missed curfews in the good old days.  Having been gone for 30 years, it's wonderful news to Portlanders to hear that Yaw's Top Notch Restaurant is back.    Grand opening festivities on Monday, October 15 include classic […]
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Current Portland Real Estate Market Information Portland Real Estate continues to rebound .   The rebound in the residential real estate market continued in September, according to new data from the Regional Multiple Listing Service. In the Portland area, 1,894 homes sold in September, a 19 percent increase from September last year. The average sale price climbed nearly 5 percent to $281,400. Median price increased 3 percent […]
Current Portland Real Estate Market Information Portland Housing Prices are going up   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 […]
Current Portland Real Estate Market Information Fake it Till You Make It   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.    
cary perkins Sneak Preview of the New Eastside Streetcar 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 […]
Current Portland Real Estate Market Information How’s the Portland OR real estate market doing? 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.  
Current Portland Real Estate Market Information A Trip Down Memory Lane in Portland Oregon My husband grew up on the hill overlooking downtown Portland.  His father was an avid photographer, and I've endured many a slide show with photos from his parents' trips through Africa, and many other exotic spots.  But some of his best photos, at least to me, are the shots taken from their balcony over the city […]
Current Portland Real Estate Market Information Mortgage Closing Costs Fell 7% Over the Past Year       I have a feeling that we will look back on this time and wish we had bought more real estate.  Prices are still declining just a tiny bit in SW Portland (though rising in other parts of town) and interest rates are still AMAZINGLY low.  Now there's even more reason to get […]
Current Portland Real Estate Market Information Multnomah Village and Bridlemile neighborhoods’ “National Night Out”   Your Multnomah Neighborhood Association invite you to our neighborhood National Night Out this Tuesday evening, August 7th from 7 to 8:30 p.m. This free event will be held at Spring Garden Park, which is located at 3332 SW Spring Garden St., here in the Multnomah neighborhood.   Join us at the South entrance (on […]
Current Portland Real Estate Market Information Portland Street of Dreams Home Tour     Get ready!  It's time for the Street of Dreams, 2012. What a wonderful way to see what's new in brand new construction, home trends, colors, appliances and decorating.  I always find something wonderful to use in my own house, and ideas to share with my clients.  It's happening July 28 – August 26 […]
Current Portland Real Estate Market Information Paint colors to use when staging your home   Here's a handy list of neutral, fabulous Benjamin Moore Paints.  They are very high quality and many of my favorite colors are offered as affordable color samples.  It is important to try any color on your walls first before committing.   Barely Beige 1066 Hepplewhite Ivory HC-36 Shaker Beige HC-45 Putnam Ivory HC-39 Bleeker […]
Current Portland Real Estate Market Information Portland Rose Festival Events 2012           Starlight Parade: June 2nd – my very favorite event!  Go early to watch the runners! Starlight Run: June 2nd – fun runners in fabulous costumes Junior Parade: June 6th Fleet Week: June 6th – 10th – meet the sailors and tour the ships Creative Youth Awards:   June 7th Rose […]
Current Portland Real Estate Market Information Where are housing prices headed?   Everyone seems to be asking their professional Realtor’s prediction is on where home values are headed.  To answer this question I want to quote three separate reports that have been published in the last 60 days: the Home Price Expectations Survey (HPES), the Urban Land Institute Real Estate Consensus Forecast (ULI) and the Demand Institute’s […]

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