Portland/Vancouver Area Home Sale Activity

Data is for the first quarter 2007 Reporting resale single family residences and condos as well as new homes * % Change is from the same period last year. See Stats...

Portland April 2007 Home Sales

Portland area home prices inched up to a new record in April, proving the region's housing market continues to hold up better than most. Still, the market lost steam last month: Both the number of sales and the rate of price appreciation slipped below prior-month and year-ago levels, a real estate information service reported.
A total of 4,225 new and resale houses and condos closed escrow last month in the Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton metro area(see included/excluded MSA counties below). That sales total fell 2.4 percent below March and 7 percent below April 2006, according to DataQuick Information Systems of La Jolla, Calif. The firm tracks real estate trends nationally via public property records. Read more...

Financing available for buyers of fixer-uppers

Portland Development Commission will offer a free workshop, How to Buy a Fixer- Upper Through PDC, on Thursday, July 12, 6 to 7:30 p.m., about its home-purchase-with-renovation loan program. The workshop will be held at the Kaiser Permanente Town Hall building, 3704 N. Interstate Ave. Space is limited to 25 people. Register by July 9 at www.pdc.us/housing or by calling 503-823-3400.