One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure.  He might want to walk for exercise while she may want to walk from restaurant to shopping to more shopping.  Walkscore.com has become a very popular real estate resource.  Enter and address and based on its criteria it gives a score between 1-100. According to WalkScore, Portland has… Continue reading Good Walking Neighborhoods in Portland

Traffic notwithstanding it takes about twenty minutes to get to Portland International Airport from downtown Portland.  Its convenient  proximity to so much of Portland also means that flight paths can be disruptive.  Though the majority of takeoffs and departures run along the Columbia River, that isn’t always the case.  The cool factor of living on… Continue reading PDX and Portland Real Estate

The Oregon Property Buyer Advisory (link updated 9/8/09) is produced by the Oregon Real Estate Agency. It begins: A real estate licensee is vital to the home buying process and can provide a variety of services in locating property, negotiating the sale and advising the buyer. A real estate agent is generally not qualified to… Continue reading Buyer Due Diligence

PortlandMaps has a wealth of Portland specific information on it. You can find out about building permits, oil tanks and other valuable home information. Other information, including sex offenders living around the neighborhood, might be pertinent to the purchase of a home but might be considered buyer due diligence rather than seller required disclosure.