Dec
11
2007
Found this on the Portland, Oregon Real Estate Blog. If you have Comcast On-Demand in the Portland Area, tell us or REPDX what you think.
December 10th, 2007
If you have Comcast On-Demand service, check out channel 888, and look for the Real Estate section. Homes for sale in the Portland metro area are sorted by area and price range. Make a selection and sit back while a 15-second spot for each listing appears. Every listing gets 3 digital photos treated with the Ken Burns effect, plus a text-to-speech narration of the agent’s comments to complete the video advertisement. Each segment lasts 7 minutes for a total of 20 - 28 listings per segment.
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Nov
19
2007
It is not a secret that home sales around the nation have declined from peak levels reached in 2005. One can speculate about the reasons for the downturn, but I’m interested in finding answers to why it has continued despite solid fundamentals.
During recent discussions with realtors, I have discovered that there are consumers actively looking to purchase homes but that they don’t have any sense of urgency.
Therefore, I pose this question to our readers, “What are the reasons that many actively looking home buyers are sitting on the sidelines, seemingly waiting for something to happen? What is it that they’re waiting for?”
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Oct
12
2007
As I have said before, right now is the best time to buy a new home, especially in Central Oregon. Buyers have more negotiating power now, and with house prices softened the ball is now squarely in the buyer’s court.
So what should you offer?
Well first, decide what it is that you really want. Is it the house itself, negotiating a great deal, lots of upgrades thrown in at the right price, a certain payment? After you have decided on the goals, then craft the offer.
Builders are much more inclined to give $20,000 worth of upgrades than a price reduction.
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Oct
09
2007
Spotted an interesting article over at Bend Weekly. The article states that a new survey conducted by ERA Real Estate and Opinion Research Corporation revealed that one out of five homeowners plan on moving in the next five years. Moreover, we found this part of the article extremely encouraging:
“Of the one in five thinking about moving in the next five years, 65 percent indicated a preference for a single family home.”
Why would 65% of those thinking about moving in the next five years prefer to move into a single family home? Well, we can’t know for sure, but here are some possibilities:
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