I often get asked by my buyer clients that are renting if they should break their lease in order to buy a home. There are a few important considerations before taking such a leap! 1. Are you financially ready to buy a home? 2. Are you personally ready to buy a home? 3. What’s the […]

Just last week I released my 2nd quarter newsletter for 2020. In it, I provided an update on COVID-19 as it pertains to buying and selling real estate in the Portland metro market (Oregon and SW Washington as well). I offered a market update on the latest happenings locally in real estate, including information, data […]

When you decide you’re going to buy your first home, it’s hard to know where to start. The entire process can be pretty daunting if you’ve never experienced buying a home before. How do you get from point A to point Z where you’re being handed the keys to your new home? What do you […]

We’re in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic and April has finally provided us with one full month of market data to review and to get a picture of where the Portland real estate market is currently…and where we might be headed. Given this is the first pandemic in a century and how different the […]

Today I jump into a Portland real estate market update for March, 2020. There’s a ton going on in the news with the coronavirus, interest rates dropping to all time lows, and much more. This video dives into the RMLS release of its February statistics and discusses the current interest rate environment.     *** […]