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.
View Larger Map Skyway, Heaven, Cloudview, Stratus are all names of streets that make up part of the Cloud 9 neighborhood. …don’t worry cumulonimbus is not one of the streets in this neighborhood. Located in South Salem, Cloud 9 was built mostly in the early 1990’s. As such there has been some time for trees…
In June of 1845, settlers from Missouri arrived in what was to be called Independence. One of the settlers, John Thorp settled north of Ash Creek and that area was called Thorps’ town. In 1861, a large flood occurred that left the town devastated. A new city, south of the old town, was platted on…
Hailing originally from Illinois, I have to say the one thing I sometimes miss about the Midwest is snow. Oregon has mountains so I can get my snow fix every year, but I do have very fond memories of playing in the snow…including the Midwest blizzard of ’79… Now that was snow…but I digress… We…
Thesa Chambers, a Central Oregon real estate agent, wrote on her blog today about a scam that is happening out there. In her post she wrote… Today, I discovered that there is a group of people posing as asset managers and stripping homes in Central Oregon listed as short sales. They are removing everything they…
It’s been no big secret that many people don’t feel too fondly for their real estate agents. Gallup does a survey every year about professionals, integrity, respect…you get the idea. Essentially, what professions are the most respected and what are the least. They released their annual study at the end of November. Agents are not…
Any real estate agent that has worked with a buyer doing a VA (Veteran’s Administration) loan can tell you that they are not always the smoothest of transactions. I won’t go into details… Oregon is fortunate that we have the ODVA loan program. The Oregon Department of Veteran’s Affairs has an amazing loan program for…
My husband is directionally challenged. In fact he is so bad that whatever his instincts tell him to do, he does the opposite. He says he has a 95% hit rate of heading the right direction that way. Me…I have pretty good directional instincts. He tells me which way to go and I ignore him.…
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. I had a little break from blogging as I am working on a new blogging platform. I will be converting over to WordPress here soon, but your feed should still work just fine. If for some reason it doesn’t work, just click on www.SalemOregonRealEstateHomes.com and get…
Okay…what the heck is going on here in Oregon? I think we have a little sugar high going on or something. We currently have our Salem folks trying to “sell” their home via one line entry contest…we had the folks in Yachats have you try and win their home…and now… another contest. This one is…
Obviously I am a real estate agent so what happens in the real estate market is important to me. I don’t like making long term predictions about our market since, well…lots of things can happen between now and then. The Boston Herald reported the results of a survey conducted by Campbell Communications indicating that 52%…