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How is COVID-19 affecting the Portland Real Estate market?
Over the next few weeks, we will be tracking and providing updates on the effect of COVID-19 on the Portland Real Estate MarketWeekly Number of Active, Pending, and Sold Homes Over Time Weekly Number of Median and Average Price of Sold Homes Over Time This report...
5 Ways to Buy and Sell a Home at the Same Time
Want to buy a new home but you have a current home and don’t know what to do? Don’t fret, there are more options than you probably know.
Below are some of the ways you can buy a new house even if you have a house already.
Luminary Agent Podcast
In this week’s episode of The Luminary Agent Show, I sit down with real estate brokerage owner Nick Krautter with City and State Real Estate. Nick first got into real estate thinking he would be a part-time agent who could control his schedule and still have time to...
Nick Krautter on The Think Bigger Mastermind
Top producing Realtor/Broker, leader of the SellPDX team, best-selling author of the industry-altering book 'The Golden Handoff' and golf enthusiast NICK KRAUTTER shares insight about the ongoing needed evolution of an agent's value proposition to their customers, the...
iBuyers Hiding Reviews?
I recently read an article on Inman News about iBuyers like Opendoor that are somehow hiding their reviews on Yelp and potentially other sites. Read the Inman Article Here I didn't believe it but when I went online I couldn't find reviews! If you're considering...
Airbnb to give Portland info on all listings. 1,500 unpermitted listings expected to be removed.
After years of legal wrangling between the City of Portland and Airbnb a settlement has been reached. Starting in December Airbnb will turn over info on all their Portland listings, which some estimate are 80% unpermitted, to the City. I expect that pricing will jump...
3 Reasons Portland Real Estate Investors Love Winter
Prices dropped close to 10% from June 2018 to January 2019 Buyers have more time to look at properties when they take longer to sell There is almost half the competition from other buyers in the winter
18 Years of Portland Real Estate Prices in One Chart
18 years of Portland, Oregon home price data in one chart As prices hit new highs again this summer of 2019 I merged the current price chart with the previous version and re-scaled them to fit together. Amazing that in 18 years the average price for a home in Portland...
Seattle Prices Drop, is Portland Next?
The Case-Shiller index brought mostly good news from its May report this morning with one surprise. Seattle which shot up 13% from 2017-2018 has flattened out and seen a rare spring/summer drop of 1.2% from this May to last May 2018. So, is Portland next? Portland is...