Charles Turner's (portlandrealestateblog) Blog

I've noticed an interesting trend on www.PortlandRealEstateBlog.com: clients don't comment.  We get clients from the blog ("I read your blog and...") but never has a client commented on one of the posts which mostly center around the health of the Portland real estate market.  There are some real...

My son, Ryan, is the sharing type. He gave me the virus that he had at the beginning of the week.  He fared better than I did- I spent four hours yesterday having fluids pumped back into me at the ER.  Mostly better, if not a little groggy, today.   So how does this all relate to housing?  When y...

I've been reading and and commented on Margrart Hokkanen's DYI post and what surprises me is that the conversation almost toally ignores what is best for the client.  The comments largely center around "I like doing it" and "I can't afford it" so I do it myself.  Rarely in the 75 comments so far ...

I got put on the spot yesterday by a reader of my Portland Real Estate Blog:So Charles, what do you tell your potential buyers when they ask about the state of our local housing market?None of us has a crystal ball. If everyone was able to buy low and sell high, there would be no market. Everyone...

In August 2006 I wrote, "So you want to be a Realtor."  The gist was a theme I have repeated at other times as well: the barriers to entry into real estate are too low and therefore the Realtor brand is diluted (400,000 licensed real estate agents did not sell a home in 2007).  I've also question...

We got a call yesterday from our listing that had expired.  It was a sphere listing and was overpriced so it didn't sell (he knew it and we knew it) but that's not the point of this post.  By noon yesterday, he'd had calls from four agents (two from our company mind you) soliciting his listing.  ...