Eight months of good news for housing in the greater Portland area! The trend of good news continues in our local housing markets. What exactly is improving? 1. Volume The number of buyers in the marketplace who are searching and buying in a wide, balanced, range of pricing shows promise of breaking up the log-jam of [...]

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View and download the full Market Action Report March 2012 Summary of the Portland metropolitan market: Pending sales are up 12.8% over last March; 7.7% up from February, and year-to-date pending sales are up 18.2% over 2011. Closed sales are up 4.9% over last March; 34.2% up from February, and year-to-date pending sales are up 12.2% [...]

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Every six months or so I attempt to delve deeply into the dark underworld of selling lots and land in this housing depression in order to update our clients. Our clients who own buildable parcels of land believed they had some of the best investments in real estate, and they did at one time, but they have [...]

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A study released last week by Trulia comparing the costs associated with buying or renting comparable homes in the top 100 U.S. metropolitan areas found that it is less expensive to buy than rent in the Portland, Oregon area. Portland was rated with an 11.0 Rent vs. Buy Index. Price-to-rent ratios that are 15 and [...]

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For our Clients and Friends, For buildable lots and land to begin to sell again, we need the new construction industry to awaken. Below is an article of such an awakening and I think you will find some encouragement even as I have. There is a lot of data to peruse. I have focused on parcels from [...]

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This Friday, April 6th, at Bella Casa Real Estate Group’s Newberg office from 5-9 pm, we will be featuring the superb art of Yamhill County artist Daryl Nelson.  We hope to see you there!  We snagged a video interview with Daryl from the The Arts Alliance of Yamhill County from August of 2011.  Come and meet [...]

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February 2012 Market Action Report We have the latest analysis from the Regional Multiple Listing Service covering the greater Portland markets, including all of Yamhill County. I am glad to report that this is the 6th month of good news which also reflects our experience working with buyers and sellers. While still below historic ‘normal’ [...]

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There are two very special bed and breakfast properties and businesses for sale in Oregon’s wine country: The Carlton Inn The Carlton Inn Bed & Breakfast is offered as a turn-key business opportunity. Included in the purchase price are all items necessary to run the business, without further investment required. This includes all of the [...]

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This Friday, in honor of Bella Casa Real Estate Group’s 5 year anniversary celebration, we will be featuring art at our Newberg office for the Newberg Downtown Art Walk event that is all part of our personal collection.  At Bella Casa Real Estate Group, it is our priority and our pleasure to decorate both our offices [...]

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This Friday, March 2nd from 5 to 9 pm, we are pleased to feature complimentary wines tastings to each of our guests at Newberg Downtown Art Walk.  Though we have the pleasure of participating in Art Walk each month, this month is especially exciting because we are celebrating Bella Casa Real Estate Group’s 5th Anniversary [...]

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