Ron's Blog

Check out this fantastic new condo listing in downtown Portland.  The Edge Lofts offers the finest loft living minutes from restaurants, entertainment and transportation.  Situated on the 8th floor, the southern city views stretch on for miles and make the condo light and bright.  For more information and pictures of this great condo, please click here. 

Super cute condo - only a block or two from the yellow MAX line. It's a short sale, but it's pre-approved for $140,000.  Click the picture below for more information about this property.  Then call Ron to set up a showing!

Portland Center Stage is having some fun functions at the Armory Theater for the big shopping weekend after Thanksgiving.  The theater will be open on Saturday the 27^th as a shopping oasis in the middle of all the shopping chaos. 

Stop in for free 15 minute chair massages and a drink.  Among other things, they’ll have a gift wrapping station and live jazz music a couple times throughout the day. 

In our new real estate market of foreclosures and bargain basement pricing, one of the questions I get asked the most by buyers is, “Will these taxes go down after I buy this place?”  My answer is, “Probably not.”  The inevitable, “Why not?” is frustrating because I don’t know the reason 100%.  This is because Oregon’s property taxes are generally not connected to market value.  How’s that for an answer?

Wow!  There was a $20,000 price reduction on this great condo in the John Ross.  Click here for more information:  Luxury Condo in the John Ross. 

Our RMLS (Regional Multiple Listing Service) released their “Market Action” report for August (see the excerpt below).  This report contains the full gambit of statistical highlights for Portland’s real estate market for a given month, and these are the stats that the Oregonian and other n

I can't believe that this condo hasn't sold yet!   This is a great price on a versatile, close-in condo.  Now priced at only $224,900, this condo has been reduced by over $40,000!! 

Below is Portland’s Regional Multiple Listing Service’s (RMLS) "Market Action", their monthly report on real estate statistics.   

My short sale listing in the John Ross is back after being withdrawn for a couple of months.