Market Update: Portland, Oregon Housing Market Q3 2009 Part 2
on Nov 22, 2009 in Economy, Recession, Bubbles, Housing Market Foreclosure, Sub-Prime, Short Sales Oregon Portland Real Estate RMLS Stats & Market Updates All About Portland Oregon Real Estate Betty Jung www bettyjung.com Here is Part 2 about our Portland, Oregon real estate market for Q3 2009: OREGON HOUSING PRICES OregonLive recently reported that Oregon will see 5th worst housing market in the next year: Oregon’s single-family home prices will fall another...

Market Update: Portland, Oregon Housing Market Q3 2009 Part 1
on Nov 21, 2009 in Economy, Recession, Bubbles, Housing Market Oregon Portland Real Estate RMLS Stats & Market Updates Rental Stats, Income Properties, Vacancy Rates All About Portland Oregon Real Estate Betty Jung www bettyjung.com Here’s Part 1 about the housing market in Portland, Oregon for Q3 2009.  Part 2 will appear on Sunday.  HOUSING APPRECIATION Portland State University issued their Third Quarter 2009 Real Estate Report indicating which areas showed apprecia...

Are You Intexticated?
on Nov 20, 2009 in Commentary Oregon Technology, Web 2.0 All About Portland Oregon Real Estate Betty Jung www bettyjung.com No longer can you text while driving.  A new word  according to this year’s Oxford American Dictionary, is driving while being intexticated and it is banned after January 1, 2010 in Oregon along with talking on your cell phone. The other d...

Changes To FHA Condominium Guidelines
on Nov 19, 2009 in Condo Stats, Condominiums, Attached, Townhouses Financing, Credit, Debt Real Estate RMLS Stats & Market Updates All About Portland Oregon Real Estate Betty Jung www bettyjung.com Guest Author: Steve Stenger, President Condo Approval Professionals LLC (847) 293-2962 E-mail: steve@condo-approval.com Website: www.condo-approval.com Changes to FHA Condominium Guidelines FHA has made changes to the condominium guidelines as indica...

Waiting? You Have 163 Days
on Nov 18, 2009 in Buying Selling All About Portland Oregon Real Estate Betty Jung www bettyjung.com On my photo blog today, Lake Oswego Living. A Photo Blog, there’s a new picture entitled “Waiting”. I posted the new picture today because if you are a move-up buyer wanting to purchase under the new Home Buyer Tax Credit program,...

Mortgage Market In Review
on Nov 17, 2009 in Financing, Credit, Debt All About Portland Oregon Real Estate Betty Jung www bettyjung.com Guest Author: Bob Chiodo, CFP Equity Home Mortgage, LLC www.ResCommLending.com Apply Here (Click on Image for Better View) ALL ABOUT…..Portland.Oregon.Real Estate, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Wo...

Oregon’s Economy + 2010 Predictions
on Nov 16, 2009 in Economy, Recession, Bubbles, Housing Market Oregon All About Portland Oregon Real Estate Betty Jung www bettyjung.com OREGON’S ECONOMY According to Yahoo!® recently, Oregon is considered one of the 10 most troubled states. The list is based on several factors, including the loss of state revenue, size of budget gaps, unemployment and foreclosure rates, poor m...

Market Update: Condo Rules & Portland Stats
on Nov 15, 2009 in Condo Stats, Condominiums, Attached, Townhouses Real Estate RMLS Stats & Market Updates All About Portland Oregon Real Estate Betty Jung www bettyjung.com I posted a new picture Thursday on my Lake Oswego Living.A Photo Blog.  Take a look if you haven’t seen it as yet.  CONDOMINIUMS Condos in 55 metro areas showed that the national median existing-condo price was $178,000 in the third quarte...

Real Estate Markets in Portland Favoring Buyers, Sellers Or Balanced
on Nov 14, 2009 in Buying Real Estate RMLS Stats & Market Updates All About Portland Oregon Real Estate Betty Jung www bettyjung.com Yesterday I posted the RMLS™ Market Update October 2009 stats in case you missed it.  Back in July 2009, I wrote a post about which areas in Portland were either a buyers, sellers or a balanced real estate market.  Looking back at that post, all...

Real Estate Updates & October 2009 RMLS Stats
on Nov 13, 2009 in Buying Financing, Credit, Debt Foreclosure, Sub-Prime, Short Sales Oregon Real Estate RMLS Stats & Market Updates All About Portland Oregon Real Estate Betty Jung www bettyjung.com HOORAY!!!  My blog should did hit the 100,000 mark today. Thanks for reading. RMLS™ October 2009 Stats The October 2009 RMLS™ stats were published Thursday and I haven’t had a chance to look at them as yet.  However, I am posting the re...