Marion County Home Prices. I’ve been struggling to try and figure out how to do Salem Oregon real estate statistic reports for some of the smaller Marion County cities. So few homes are selling, so here is what I decided… The report is going to be a year to date summary of the numbers. It won’t…
Wow…all I can say is wow… There are some folks in the real estate industry that have been trying to change the way real estate is done, bought and sold. These companies are often called “discounters” because they don’t want to charge people that elusive 5-7% real estate commission. I have an alternative business model…
Brian Brady wrote an interesting post on Bloodhound Blog yesterday about the real estate industry. I think it is worth bringing to your attention AND I would like to hear what you all think of it. Brian wrote: Prominently display the terms and dates of the rejected offers, verified by participating market professionals, in the…
The Silverton market continues to have real estate problems. Unlike Salem Oregon and Keizer, which have been correcting, Silverton seems “stubborn.” Now Silverton has the reputation of being a desirable place to live, which is true…it is a great small town in the Salem Oregon metro area, but buyers are clearly saying “not at those…
That is how much the Keizer Oregon median home price dropped compared to May of 2008. Remember I talked about that Keizer hadn’t been correcting for a while, but then was taking a nose dive instead? Salem Oregon real estate has been edging down 3% here, 3% there. Keizer Oregon stayed flat for a long…
Well the real estate season is underway and so this month’s stats are a good indication of what we can expect for the market this year. The good news…Salem Oregon home inventory is at 11.5 months right now. That is almost a two month drop since last month’s real estate report. I can say from…
Sometimes you get presented with an opportunity just too good to pass up. Me…I get presented with those “great opportunities” pretty much daily. Take today, for example… First, I, formally known as Melina Tomson but now known as “email bearer,” won a cool $2.5M in a lotto I never entered. I was always taught that…
You may remember I wrote a post about how you could use the $8,000 tax credit as a down payment for a Salem Oregon home with a “new plan” that was announced, only to retract it 24 hours later. So…in order to make things “easy”…cough, cough… for first-time homebuyers the government had an announcement about…
Did you know in real estate that there is a term that floats around…deal killers. This is what some Salem Oregon real estate agents call home inspectors that are “nit picky.” Some home inspectors were renamed deal killers by “wrong thinking” agents because they were actually good at what they do. They “killed deals” because…
Erik Hitzelberger wrote a little poem based on Green Eggs and Ham. I started a comment thread in his post, and well…it morphed into this. So this is dedicated to all Salem Oregon home buyers and Salem area real estate agents that try and work together to find the right house…whatever that may be. That…