Real
Estate News
1/13/2008
Bust
turns developers' dreams to dust
Housing - Portland-area subdivisions
that once were sure sellers are doomed by tight credit and vanishing investors
12/19/2007
Local
real estate is starting to feel pinch
Signs of downturn - Price growth
is still slowing, sales inventory is high and homes continue to take longer to
sell
12/6/2007
Real
estate's soft landing
Realtors and developers see some slowdown but overall,
the Portland area seems to be bucking national trends
11/28/2007
Portland
home prices stable while most cities slide
The metro area is among five
in the nation in which housing values escape decline, but 2008 could be different
10/24/2007
Single-family
sales rate nears 10-year low (PDF)
Median existing-home price drops 4.2%
in September
10/14/2007
Glut
of new homes suddenly gives Portland-area buyers upper hand
Incentives
- Some builders offer trips and gift cards, and one broker will consider taking
your old house as a trade-in
5/18/2007
Home
prices slip, supply up
But affordability drops as Portland-area prices
go up faster than the U.S. 12-month average
4/19/2007
Portland
home market cools
Condo and house prices are up over last year, but it's
taking longer for properties to sell
3/23/2007
Portland-area
market may be kinder to home buyers
Slowing appreciation and a higher inventory
in the Portland area may prove favorable to house hunters
2/21/2007
Portland's
housing market lamblike as springtime nears - Oregonian
The median price
for metro-area homes is up about 12 percent
2/17/2007
Quarterly
Real Estate Report - PSU's Center for Real Estate (PDF 298KB)
Portland
State University's Center for Real Estate produces a Quarterly Real Estate Report,
highlighting the current trends in real estate as well as an economic forecast
of the real estate market.
2/16/2007
Falling
house prices bypass the Northwest - Oregonian
Large metro areas in the
region see gains, unlike the rest of the U.S.
1/27/2007
2006:
New home sales slide 17.3% - Oregonian
The nationwide drop is the largest
since 1990, but sales have risen in the past two months
1/19/2007
2006
prices leap, slow and finally settle at year's end - Oregonian
Home sales
- RMLS figures show December's median price grows 8.1 percent over December 2005
1/17/2007
What’s
Causing Home Prices to Drop? - Realtor Magazine
There are more homes on
the market and asking prices are coming down. But how low will prices go before
the market favors sellers again?
12/28/2006
Nov.
Home Sales Inch Up, but Prices Fall - AP News
Sales of existing homes
managed to eke out a small increase in November but the price of homes sold fell
for a record fourth consecutive month, a real estate trade group reported Thursday.
12/16/2006
Listings
climb to the most in nearly 2 years - Oregonian
If you're thinking that
For Sale sign down the street is about to sprout moss, you're not imagining things.
12/15/2006
Residential
real estate market slows - Portland Business Journal
Home buyers had more
to choose from in Portland last month, but they still had to pay higher prices
than they would have the year prior.
12/13/2006
First-Time
Homebuyers Jump Back in the Game - Realtor Magazine
Sellers are getting
the message and cutting their asking price, real estate professionals say. That,
along with the recent drop in interest rates, is encouraging first-time buyers
to start looking again.
12/8/2006
Housing
outlook in 2007? Weaker - Oregonian
Real estate - Two experts predict there
will be a shift to a buyer's market with a slowing in the rise of prices. The
Portland area housing market will further weaken in 2007, two economists told
a gathering of the Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Portland on Thursday.
12/6/2006
Analysts:
Stats Don't Reflect Falling Home Values - Realtor Magazine
Statistics that
say housing prices have continued to rise modestly or have fallen only slightly
are deceiving, say some real estate analysts, because the stats don’t reflect
houses that sit on the market for months because their owners refuse lowball offers.
11/18/2006
Portland
real estate goes own way - Oregonian
As recently as June, the area's median
home price climbed 17 percent higher than 2005 levels. New figures released Friday
by the Regional Multiple Listing Service show the median home price in October
was $270,000, about $5,500 lower than in September and just 8.4 percent higher
than October 2005....
11/16/2006
A
real estate reckoning - Oregonian
The southwest suburbs' framework of a
housing slowdown lays a foundation for a more normal market
