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portland oregon: Portland OR Chosen America's 3rd Least Wasteful City - 04/16/09 01:50 PM
In a study by Nalgene, Portland OR is rated as America's 3rd least wasteful city. In a study of America's 25 largest cities, we did pretty well. We finished below San Francisco and New York, and one above Seattle. Last on the list is Atlanta.
This isn't much of a surprise to us as we are generally ahead of the curb in many ways. What is surprising is that New York beats us and that we don't use more rain barrels. Might be we wouldn't know what to do with THAT much water...
Way to go Portland!!! 

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portland oregon: Mortgage Market Update - Recommendation To Lock - 05/15/07 10:19 AM
While the Bond market got what it wanted as the Core Consumer Price Index showed tame consumer inflation. The Core CPI for April was reported up 0.2% which lowered the year over year Core rate to a better than expected 2.3% and closer to the Fed's target zone of 1 to 2%.  However, the Mortgage Backed Securities, which long term mortgage rates are based on, are only modestly higher and unable to recover losses from yesterday.  More importantly, Bonds are still below the 200-day Moving Average and have failed to rally back above it after this morning's good news on inflation. … (0 comments)

portland oregon: Portland Oregon 2nd Highest Appreciation in Nation - 03/28/07 06:20 PM
Standard and Poor's has reported that Portland Oregon has the 2nd highest increase in home value as reported  in the Portland Business Journal. While an increase of 8.7% isn't exactly setting records, it is much better then most of the rest of the nation. Nationally, according to the report, our 20 largest markets have seen a decrease of .2%.
Interestingly enough, our RMLS system shows Feb 06 to Feb 07 numbers at 12.8% appreciation. I asked fellow blogger Ron Ares to help me with this as he has a breakdown that shows numbers during this time period at 6.5% and median price … (0 comments)

 
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