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Closed Sales With the 2012 year behind us there were 32 closed sales in the First Addition neighborhood in Lake Oswego at an average sales price of $455,227. That’s a 20% decrease from the average sales price of the 39 homes that sold in 2011. That doesn’t mean, of course, that prices are generally down in the neighborhood, as home prices in Lake Oswego and the Portland metropolitan area are up as a whole

The Cook Park neighborhood in Tigard had a fairly good year for real estate sales in 2012. Closed Sales There were 26 closed sales within a price range of $115,000 to $421,000. The average sold price was $265,974 with the average median sale price at $273,000. That’s about an 11% increase from the average sales price of the 25 homes that sold in 2011. Not bad. The average time it took for a home to sell was a s

As expected the Portland metropolitan real estate market has descended into its seasonal slow down as we reach the holiday season and final weeks of the year. But don’t mistake that for a declining market. Though November sales numbers on all counts slowed down from October, which is typical and to be expected this time of year, year-over-year as well as current year-to-date gains were well ahead of November 20

Good news if you’re a Portland home buyer planning to use FHA financing for your home purchase within the next two years: FHA’s 90-day anti-flip rule has been suspended through the end of 2014. In 2003, FHA enacted a rule that prohibited buyers using FHA financing from purchasing properties that had been owned by the seller for less than 90 days. Primarily the rule was targeted at “predatory flippin

Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS) just released it’s monthly housing report, and for the month of October our local Portland real estate market continued the same theme we’ve been seeing for most of 2012: the housing market continues to improve. In fact, the real estate market appears to be building steam at a time when sales and prices traditionally begin to taper off as we head into the holiday s

Like cupcakes and other pastries? A recent report published in The Daily Meal ranked our very own Crave Bake Shop no. 3 in its list of the 50 best cupcake shops in America. If you’re ever in Portland, stop by Crave Bake Shop. Not only does it serve up creative (and creatively named) cupcakes, all the flavors are gluten-free. Founder Kyra Bussanich was diagnosed with an auto-immune disorder as a young adult, and the l