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Price Per Square Foot

Price per square foot is a handy tool when trying to calculate value for a house. It is commonly used by Realtors, home buyers and sellers, and Appraisers. It can also be a bit misleading. So I thought it was time to take a good hard look at it.

Two weeks ago I [...]

Showing Tips

So you’ve put your house on the market and are planning to jump on the spring bandwagon and take advantage of the thawing market. Let’s talk about how best to show your home & what your options are.

You’ll be talking with your agent about the listing’s “Showing Instructions”. You have several options including [...]

Mortgage and Market Tidbits

Local Area Trends- According to the latest RMLS Market Action Report, comparing November 2010 with December 2010, a few interesting facts emerge- Average Sales Price increased in the Portland Metro area by 2.2%, and Closed Sales increased by 14.3% which is the highest monthly level since June.
Rates- There is some indication that this increase was [...]

Price it Right!

Real Estate 101 says that you have four factors to consider when selling your home: price, condition, terms, and location. You have no control whatsoever over the location. You do have control over the price, the condition, and the terms. When getting a house ready to put it onto the market you [...]

Ideas for Winter Curb Appeal

As a seller, you want to do everything your time and your budget will allow to maximize the price you will receive for your home, and to shorten the length of time it takes to make that happen. Just because it is winter does not make the rules change. So, just like the [...]

Distressed Homes and Home Owners

West Waluga Park

I know I wrote a post just recently about foreclosures and short sales, but a ton of new information has come to my attention. This information is really useful, so I decided to stay with the topic for this week.

Running the Numbers
I spent a little time looking more closely at [...]

Getting You Where You Want To Go

For some reason people love this tag line that I use. I think it’s because we all can relate. You are not selling and/or buying a home on a lark, you have something to accomplish. My approach in all things wherein I am giving professional advice is to discover what it is [...]

More Market Data

A comparison of Sept ’10 and the previous month in Portland Metro shows an increase in Closed Sales of 1.3%
Average sales price in Portland Metro fell by 3.5% comparing Sept. 2009 with Sept 2010.
Comparing the 3rd quarter of 2009 with 3rd quarter 2010, Closed Sales in Portland Metro dropped 24.7%
Comparing the 3rd quarter of 2009 [...]

Foreclosure Freeze/Shortsales/Market Conditions

The news has been full of headlines about the new crisis in the mortgage industry, this time affecting foreclosures. So it seems like an opportune time to look at not only foreclosures, but also shortsales and the latest market update from RMLS.

The Foreclosure Freeze
There is now discussion that the foreclosure process, which has pretty [...]

News & Notes

Mortgage Rates: One thing to remember about what you hear on the news is that good news for the economy in general means rates are going to rise for buying a house. Bad news for the economy means rates stay where they are if they are low or get [...]

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