Negative numbers often conjure up negative images for me. -40 degrees…means you are freezing your hiney off in some insanely cold part of the country. -$50 means you just bounced a check at the local grocery store. You know sometimes a negative number is a good thing…. -10 pounds…there aren’t too many people in the…
Home prices up? What? I have to say I was a bit surprised when I ran the real estate numbers this month for Keizer because the average and median home price ticked up. Yep. I said it. Up. I know my regular readers would never believe I would say anything positive about real estate in…
Salem Oregon real estate market and home trends. Well, we are in the throws of a crazy spring as the tax credit eligibility ends here in just a couple of weeks. As such buyers have been out much earlier than usual trying to take advantage of the tax credit. So what did this dynamic do…
As you drive down high street here in Salem Oregon, the mustard yellow building kind of jumps out at you. The first time I saw this finished building I wasn’t sure what to make of it. Was it seriously ugly or seriously cool? Salmon Run was built in 2004 by Curry Brandaw. It is a…
Is that the correct term? As someone who is new to blogging, I’m sure I’m going to have to learn a bunch of new terms. I think of it as a topic or opinion that comes to my attention that I have an almost visceral reaction to. After Melina asked me to start thinking about…
I’ve been wanting to have some Salem Oregon mortgage brokers do some guest posts for me because lending is so asinine these days, I thought it best if they could help explain the new and crazy process to you all. True to form, an underwriter is nit picking a transaction about the “paper trail.” The…
Selling a home in Salem Oregon Some time ago, I was chatting with another agent about one of my homes for sale in Salem Oregon. Her client had made an offer and things were not going well for a bunch of reasons…reasons that I couldn’t tell her about. The agent was frustrated with me and…
It seems that every time I go somewhere and someone finds out I’m a Salem Oregon real estate agent they always ask me about how the downtown condos are doing. “Have any of them sold?” is often the question I get. Both The Meridian and The Church Street Condos have sold units, but we all…
I can’t believe I am writing this post because I know some real estate agent will get upset with me for talking about this, but there is a fascinating discussion happening behind closed doors at ActiveRain. ActiveRain is a real estate blogging network that I belong to. I can’t link to the post and the…
Keizer Oregon real estate trends I chatted about the Salem Oregon real estate market a couple of posts ago, but let’s take a look at where the Keizer market is for February. Technically homes sales were up in Keizer 42% in February 2010 over 2009, BUT this is just an increase from 7 last year…