The year has started off on a positive note. Sales activity in the Portland metro area continued to show improvement in closed and pending sales when comparing this January to the same month a year ago. Closed sales experienced a 18.3% increase, posting the highest numbers for January since 2007. Pending sales saw growth of [...]
Portland-area home values fell 3.5 percent during 2011 but are expected to stabilize and even post and increase in 2012, real estate search firm Clear Capital reports.
The California company forecasts a 1.9 percent increase in home values int he Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton area.
In the company’s rankings of 50 major metro areas’ home prices, that moves [...]
The Portland Metro Real Estate Market is still in recovery and many wonder how things looked back in 2011 compared to previous years. There is considerable good news. We’ve seen a higher percentage of pending and closed sales year over year along with a lower total time on market for homes on the market. Total [...]
Portland, Oregon will be the first city to use IBM’s new software called Systems Dynamics for Smarter Cities, containing 3,000 equations which collectively seek to model cities’ emergent behavior and help them figure out how policy can affect the lives of their citizens.
The program seeks to quantify the cause-and-effect relationships between [...]
Oregon lawmakers seek to pass a bill that stops banks from claiming a loss on a short sale and still collecting the money later from the borrower.
Homeowners get the 1099 from the bank, pays taxes on the bank’s loss and is still collected on by the bank after the fact, typically through collection agencies [...]




