For Immediate Release: May 25, 2010 RMLS™ Awards Scholarships to PSU Students Four Portland State University students receive the RMLS™ Scholarship PORTLAND, Ore. – RMLS™ (Regional Multiple Listing Service), the largest Realtor®-owned multiple listing service in the Northwest, has donated four $1,000 scholarships to students in Portland State University’s Center for Real Estate program. […]
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94.6% of Homes Sold for Below $500k in Portland in November
Categories: Market Trends, Portland, Statistics
RMLS Portland home sales by price range, November 2009 The original deadline for the homebuyer tax credit was November 30 and it appears that this may have had an effect on home sales in November. Homes that sold for $250,000 or below (likely the price range for many first-time buyers) made up 55.3% of all […]
November 2009 RMLS Market Action Recap
Categories: Baker County, Clark County, Columbia Basin, Coos County, Curry County, Douglas County, Eastern Oregon, Lane County, Market Trends, Mid-Columbia, Oregon Real Estate, Portland, RMLS Market Action, Statistics, Union County, Washington Real Estate
Sales up, but in comparison to a dismal month last November The big highlight this month for many areas is a large jump in closed sales compared to last November. Curry County posted a 141.7% increase and Portland and Clark County set records for percentage increases in same-month sales at 72.4% and 70.5%, respectively. While […]
RMLS Market Action Recap – October 2009
Categories: Clark County, Columbia Basin, Coos County, Curry County, Douglas County, Eastern Oregon, Lane County, Market Trends, Mid-Columbia, Oregon Real Estate, Portland, RMLS Market Action, Statistics, Union County, Washington Real Estate
Same-month sales up nearly across the board in Oregon & Southern Washington Sales activity continued to outpace levels from the same month last year in the latest RMLS™ Market Action report. Inventory was also down in several areas, including Lane County, Portland and Clark County. Sales Activity: Both pending and closed sales increased in 9 […]
Portland Metro Sales by Price Range – September 2009
Categories: Market Trends, Portland, Statistics
Homes below $400k make up 85% of sales in September I recently read that in Phoenix, 93% of September Home Sales were below $400k. The author says that Phoenix is essentially a “tale of two markets”, one where homes in the lower priced spectrum are selling & where high-end homes are sitting. We’ve looked at […]
HOWNW.com Adds Section on Avoiding Foreclosure and Fraud
Categories: Homeownership, Industry News, Portland
PMAR’s public service website, HOWNW.com (Home Ownership Opportunities Northwest) has a new section that offers consumers information from reliable sources such as the National Association of Realtors®, the Federal Trade Commission, Fannie Mae and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency about how to avoid foreclosure and fraud. To explore these useful new resources, […]
The $8K Tax Credit and its Effect on Portland Metro Real Estate
Categories: Homeownership, Market Trends, Oregon Real Estate, Portland, Statistics
There’s been some encouraging news lately in the RMLS™ market areas. The number of sales and pending sales are finally outpacing the totals from the same month in 2008. How much of it might be a result of the $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit, though? I recently put together some statistics for the Oregonian on the Portland metro […]