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I am excited to announce that I have earned the designation of a Certified International Property Specialist. This designation is awarded to Realtors who have completed  two core courses, three elective courses, have  successful experience involving international real estate transactions, and have demonstrated other global professional experience. There are over 14,000 members of the Oregon [...]

Below is a copy of  a mailer that we’ve sent to a group of Close-In property owners. If you know or anyone you know  in Portland would be interested, please contact us. Thank you.

Interactive map that includes median sales prices and median commute times in all Metropolitan Sales Areas; also includes year-to-date price change comparison. View Metropolitan Sales Areas in a larger map

A quick video about the traffic project at the intersection of Burnside & Sandy. I am so looking forward to this. Portland’s Burnside/Couch Couplet

Last week our house was burglarized. I believe it was a random event, and it’s been a learning process. This week we’re taking steps to minimize the risk of this happening again. We live in a very nice neighborhood, and perhaps that was part of what made our home a target. I’m surprised that I never felt [...]

My everyday bike is a Maruishi road bike I bought in Madison, WI, about five years ago from a client who ran a bike shop.  I planned to buy something new, but as I was looking around the store I found this 20+ year old rebuilt,  with a name I never heard of.  I test [...]

The weather was perfect today – nearly 60 and blue skies – and I saw some equally nice listings. The two I’d like to feature have great walkscores, and represent nice mid-priced and move-up priced homes. The first is an Alberta Arts townhouse, classic on the outside and a modernist’s delight on the inside. Great [...]

When I was growing up cars did not have cup holders. Sure, you could buy the type that hung inside the car door, but they were flimsy and really didn’t work once the car was moving! Fast forward thirty years. The number of holders are cited by your car salesperson along with cylinders and horsepower. [...]

Please contact me if you would like either or both of the following reports. I can email them to you in .pdf format at no charge/no obligation: “The 2009 NAR Profile of International Home Buying Activity” and “Business Data for Engaging in International Real Estate Transactions in Oregon.” I can obtain the second report for [...]

One approach to examining home prices is the measurement of median home prices relative to median household incomes: along with interest rates, income is a major determinant of how much house one can afford. We used NAR data for median home prices in a yearly quarter, based on the median of all NAR existing home [...]