Notice I didn’t qualify whether it was good or bad news. October Case-Schiller Index At one time eagerly anticipated, but now dreaded, the last Tuesday of each month brings the S&P/Case-Shiller Index, which measures U.S. home prices going back to 1988. In looking at October 2008 results, ...

Merry Christmas to you and yours from re:PDX. As you can see from the NASA image below, we’ve been under the weather (coined the Snowpocalypse by PDX Twitter users). About 12 to 18 inches of snow, ice, snow, ice, and now some thawing–which will lead to some unstable Christmas travel in a...

Final numbers for the Portland metro area real estate are available today from RMLS. My thoughts about the results: A one-month rise in median and average pricing: Well, it’s a small sample (only 1,465 homes sold in the month), so I’m not surprised to see the prices tick up. The median a...

I just had an inspection cancel on me and wanted to share the experience with you. I booked it yesterday for $410 and this was after the agent and client had called around and price shopped several companies.  Today the agent calls, he's never used us before but many in his office do and he 'be...