The FHA loan program just got yet another injection to help expand the buying opportunities for first time home buyers.
Months ago the US Treasury announced that it would offer an $8,000 tax credit to first time homebuyers (considered those who haven’t owned a home in the past 3 years) who purchase before December 1, 2009. This [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Residential’
May 31, 2009
FHA grows to expand home buying opportunities
May 17, 2009
Portland’s Housing Market Relatively Stable
Once again, I’ve culled the latest housing stats to see where Portland stands in relation to national trends. This time, I’ve gathered the latest data from the National Association of Realtors. They compile quarterly stats across all the metropolitan areas, and calculate averages for the various parts of the country. Their data came out recently [...]
May 16, 2009
Community Open House
Join Portland Community Realty at our Community Open House to showcase a wonderful new listing in the Lents neighborhood. This roomy cape cod features 4+ bedrooms and 3 full baths, with a detached, finished office. Great for the home-based business running a family.
Community Open House – Sunday, May 17th, 1-3pm
4145 SE 91st Avenue, Portland OR 97266
Get some of Jeff’s [...]
May 11, 2009
Case-Shiller Composite-20 vs. Portland
Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Indices were recently published for February 09 housing sales. It’s too bad they can’t crunch these numbers quicker, as I’d really like to compare this data to RMLS stats in the same month. Oh well.
This month I was interested to see how the Case-Shiller index for Portland stacks up against that of [...]
April 28, 2009
Portland hosts foreclosure prevention event
A number of housing groups are coming together May 2 to educate people about their options to prevent foreclosure. It’s called the Homeownership Preservation Event, and it’s free. For location and details, visit http://www.dfcs.oregon.gov/HOPE.html. Hope to see you there.
