Beginning Your Search You can begin by looking through Portland listings with our Portland Map Search or view Portland Listings by Neighborhood. Inquire via email or phone about particular listings in which you are interested. You can save your searches and have updates emailed to you on a regular basis. Here’s what to expect when [...] Read more
Portland’s Ankeny Hardware Offers Old-School Service
Upon entering the hardware store on SE 11th and Stark, I thought, “This place isn’t going to have what I need!” I’ve built homes, remodeled, even added a studio apartment in the basement of a house once, so I’m no stranger to visiting the big box store 3 times a day for months. Ankeny Hardware [...] Read more
5 Great Reasons to Buy a New Home Today!
Lately, it seems like all we hear about is how bad the economy has gotten, and how awful the housing market has become. This is a tough time to sell a home. Bad news travels fast, as they say, and it sells a lot of ads for the media. What you don’t hear is that [...] Read more
Top 5 Money-Making Home-Remodeling Tips
For most of us, our home is probably one of the biggest investments we’ll ever make. In the past, it was possible to sit back casually and watch our equity grow with little or no effort. These days equity is not given, it must be earned. We can no longer count on the market and [...] Read more
Important Questions to Ask Your Lender
The mortgage loan process can seem intimidating, complex and confusing, so I thought I might take this opportunity to share some good questions to discuss with your lender when applying for a home loan. Just print this page and take it with you when you meet your mortgage professional! General Mortgage Questions: What kind of [...] Read more
Agent Spotlight: Rich Peralta
Some background on Rich Peralta: Exuberant father, eXp Realty agent and big fan of life in Portland. I’ve prepared some quick details to help you decide whether to read further. After all, the point of the bio page is to help you, the consumer, interview me without all the mess of actually meeting me in [...] Read more