Portland State University Center for Real Estate

Portland State University's Center for Real Estate informative Quarterly Report is an excellent resource for Metro Portland.

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Oregonian Real Estate Blog:

Top 1: Front Porch gets foreclosed

4/19/2010 5:03 PM

FRONT PORCH BLOG: The real estate blog shuts down amid a foreclosure wave. And a new beat for the autho...Read More

NYT: Top goldman leaders said to have overseen mortgage unit

4/19/2010 5:03 PM

FRONT PORCH BLOG: The SEC named only one person in its suit. But according to interviews with eight former Goldman employees, senior bank executives played a pivotal role in overseeing the mortgage unit just as the housing market began to go south...Read More

After condo bust, Gerding Edlen rebuilds itself for green economy

4/19/2010 5:03 PM

FRONT PORCH BLOG: Gerding Edlen expanded quickly during the real estate boom with condos in Portland, LA and Bellevue. CEO Mark Edlen has brought in some new players to help reposition the company for a green econom...Read More

Program to help rural home buyers is nearly broke

4/19/2010 5:03 PM

FRONT PORCH BLOG:The USDA is one of the few lenders to offer a no-down-payment loan in 'rural' areas. The agency issued 116,000 loans in the 2009 fiscal year. It's been so popular, the USDA is expected to run out of money this month. The Realtors are pushing to extend the progra...Read More

Q1 condo report: Hoyt Street Properties' slow sales at the Encore and Joe Weston’s big bet to stay in the game

4/19/2010 5:03 PM

FRONT PORCH BLOG: More than two years after sales open, the Encore has just 17 sales and accounts for one-third of all new condos for sale in downtown Portland. Joe Weston, an investor in the project, explains his plan and some side benefits for Encore residents of slow sales....Read More

Lunchtime reading: A house in Portland, a job in San Francisco

4/19/2010 5:03 PM

FRONT PORCH BLOG: The Wall Street Journal picks up on the trend of Bay Area workers living in Portland and commuting on week days. It's a trend that Willamette Week explored in 200...Read More

Top 5: 2010 downtown Portland condo sales off to sluggish start

4/19/2010 5:03 PM

FRONT PORCH BLOG: Group urges city to push harder on Trail Blazers in Memorial Coliseum talks / Bank-owned Mt. Hood development site goes up for auction / Tax credit makes home builders feel slightly better about the world / Single-family housing starts in March down slightly from Februa...Read More

WaMu examiner who called out problems called ‘housing bubble boy’

4/19/2010 5:03 PM

FRONT PORCH BLOG: One examiner said he was derided by colleagues as 'the housing 'bubble' boy' for his 'gloom and doom' predictions for some risky loan...Read More

RMLS: Portland area sees spring bounce in March home sales (Update 1)

4/19/2010 5:03 PM

FRONT PORCH BLOG: After a dismal February, closed sales jumped 77 percent and pending sales ticked up 30 percen...Read More

Lunchtime reading: The Economist asks whether Portland is a leader or just, um, strange

4/19/2010 5:03 PM

FRONT PORCH BLOG:The magazine doesn't really answer that question but it does a nice job of summing up the city and our collective weirdnes...Read More