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In 2019, the Oregon Legislature passed House Bill 2001 – the “middle housing” law. This new law will bring wide-ranging changes to construction of new housing in Oregon, but has received little press so far. The goal of HB 2001 is to reduce barriers to the construction of “middle housing,” which is defined as duplexes,Continue reading “The biggest (and little known) change to Oregon housing law”

As the average 30-year mortgage rate eclipses 7 percent, home buyers and sellers are confronting sticker shock.

Nationwide, roughly 64,000 home-purchase agreements fell through in August, equal to 15.2% of homes that went under contract that month.

As with any burgeoning technology—especially one promising revolutionary change—there are believers and skeptics.

Fueled by wealthy out-of-state buyers, the demand for second-home properties outpaces any other part of the country.

Most commercial real estate contracts give the buyer a free look for an extended time. Here’s how that can go wrong for the seller, and what the seller might be able to do about it.

New boutique condo towers, some with fewer apartments than the buildings they replace, are squandering high-density sites in Manhattan, urban planners say.

Commercial real estate owners and operators face a complicated exercise in figuring out how to factor climate risk within their portfolios. Deciphering how much risk a property will face isn’t always clear-cut.

Dismayed by overpriced Hamptons real estate — ‘and nothing was really what I wanted’ — she decided to design her own house instead of buying one.

Manchester Capital Management, a money manager that caters to the needs of wealthy families, took a hit earlier this year when it stopped making loan payments on two iconic properties in Portland, the Loyalty Building and Hamilton Building, which stand side-by-side on Southwest 3rd Avenue.