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June, 2009
Real Estate Tip: Location, location…..
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Apologies to those of you that feel Zillow is a great resource to determine real estate values, but it’s hard for a website to determine that a particular property’s neighbor has a three story baby blue house with yellow trim, or even a prison for that matter. You can update a kitchen or add a [...]
May Market Update for Portland
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Market Action May 2009 (Read full report)
Imagine our housing market as a big supermarket. If you had walked into that supermarket in January shopping for a house with all the other buyers, at the rate of sales in January it would have taken 19 months to clear the shelves of all the inventory. You had [...]
Eating Simply but Extremely Well: PSU Farmer’s Market
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
When I buy butter at New Season’s no one asks me to feel their bicep, yet that’s just what Lisa Jacob’s of Jacob’s Creamery invited me to do when I appeared incredulous that she personally hand churns her butter for sale. And who knew that a great pyrenees is protecting the free range chickens at [...]
John Yeon: Unsung Visionary
Monday, June 8th, 2009
A recent lecture at the AHC by LeLand Roth, Professor of Architecture at U of O and a bow-tied Randy Gragg, editor of Portland Spaces, really made into flesh this remarkable Portland native. Not only did he design homes and their gardens, at the end of his career he designed installation spaces for museums. This [...]