Okay guys…you all have to put up with a little bit of real estate advertising every so often so this is fair warning! I organized an open house tour of some south Salem acreage properties. You can see what is on the tour on the google map. I have this seriously cool old home, that…
So do you really want to know how they do it? You know…build a house in a week. You’ve all watched the show…some of you may have cried…some of you may have gagged at the sappiness. Either way, Extreme Makeover is hitting Salem Oregon. If you are interested in volunteering or donating you can head…
Stayton Real Estate Prices I wrote six months ago that I fully expected Stayton real estate home prices to continue to drop. That didn’t happen this quarter, but quite frankly I don’t see how prices can’t go down. Back in January, Stayton had 36 months of inventory. Right now, it has 33. Pretty much none of…
Art Museums in Salem One of the hard parts about moving to a new city is finding out what activities there are to do. If you are into the art scene and are moving to a smaller city like Salem, Oregon that can be a bit harder sometimes. One of the local options for people…
I’ve been busy working and playing at North Fork Park rather than doing my quarterly real estate market reports, so I’m a bit behind…So for those of you waiting for these, my apologies…now onward! Silverton Oregon home sales Finally seeing home sales rise in Silverton. Like the other Salem metro cities, sales stunk in 2009. …
Are you one of those? You know, those people who want to live off-grid, have a cob house here in Salem Oregon, or build your own strawbale instead. If those words are green music to your ears, I just stumbled on this cool map. If you want to see who is doing what in serious…
Like many Salem Oregon real estate agents, my transactions all seem to be from hell. Not because I don’t have amazing clients; not because I don’t have a great loan officer involved; and not because I don’t have a great escrow officer around me. It is hard to find a post that says anything positive…
A couple of days ago charges were announced related to real estate fraud. According to the press release by the FBI in Oregon, Among the 39 defendants named today are two real estate agents, 11 mortgage brokers, one bank loan officer, and one certified public accountant (CPA). There are some ongoing investigations and they are…
Keizer home price trends Well true to form, what goes up must come down. Thankfully for Keizerites, the correction seems to have come and gone for the most part. Keizer Oregon real estate has been pretty much flat-lined for a year. The second-quarter statistics are continuing that same pattern. Inventory is running at 7.7 months…
Recently the Statesman Journal and Salem-News.com spread the word that foreclosures in Salem Oregon had increased. They used CoreLogic as their source of data and they are reporting an increase for Salem. I disagree with their presentation of the data and here is why… Interpreting the foreclosure data First of all CoreLogic and I look…