This is a series of blog posts about real estate in Salem Oregon written by Melina Tomson of Tomson Burnham, a small boutique real estate brokerage in Salem Oregon. The blog has articles about local real estate market conditions from Salem, Keizer, Independence, Monmouth, Dallas, Stayton, Aumsville and Silverton.
The blog covers topics from market conditions to happenings inside the real estate industry that might impact consumers to new technologies that are housing-related. Community information for home buyers looking to relocate to Salem is also housed in our blog as we discuss our local favorites.
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…
I wrote on Facebook the other day that I think time changes stink. I am not a morning person to begin with so taking an hour of my sleep away from me leaves me thinking a quintuple espresso is sounding good. Between the time change and a significant problem in a real estate transaction for…
I love it when people do funky surveys. Just in case you were sitting and home and wondering who the cheaters of the world are out there, rest assured that someone with way too much time on their hands had the exact same thought. I know I sit up at 3:00 in the morning just…
“I’d like a house on a 1/2 an acre,” says the buyer on the phone. I have had this conversation with several people that want to relocate out to this area. I often find myself explaining that in Oregon, all cities are required to have an urban growth boundary per state law. I seem…
This post has nothing to do with real estate…well only indirectly. A local colleague (ie a real estate agent with another company), Charles Price has a really wonderful food blog called Taste of Oregon. In fact it is so good it was selected as one of the blogs in Saveur for best regional food blog. …
