This is a “back-of-the-napkin” summary of the Portland-Metro real estate stats for October 2014, according to the RMLS’s™ Market Action Report, here. Closed sales at
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This article is a continuation of Part One, below. It addresses many of the current – as yet unanswered – questions by real estate brokers,
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Generally, the RMLS™ statistics for June 2014 follow the prior few months of improvement. The only static figure is low inventory, which has not budged
According to a recent Wall Street Journal blog, here, the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, John Williams, says it will be another
