By "Chaim" Victor Schramm, CFS®, CAS®, AIF®"Bargain" Houses That Aren't Bargains in the Pacific Northwest There's been a great deal said about the phenomenon of Millennials and others buying up properties at rapid paces in the urban Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. This is particularly true of Portland, Oregon, where our firm has been based for [...]
Portland Households Experiencing High Income GrowthBy Victor Schramm, CFS® It's no secret that Portland's economy has become more dynamic over the past decade. Portland is currently the most moved-to city in the nation for Millennials. 1 Oregon has had one of the highest net-immigration statistics over the past few years, owing largely to Portland. 2 According to [...]
Portland Real Estate Index Increases Again Portland Real Estate had its largest month-over-month increase of 2017 in March. The Portland Case Shiller housing price index jumped 1.03% from February to March, beating the national average rate of increase. This new data from Standard & Poor's is interesting, given local media reports that apartment rental prices [...]
Housing versus REIT's Real Estate is a unique class of investment. For many, Real Estate is both the largest asset and the largest liability in their financial life. We have classic personal finance dichotomies such as "own versus rent" related to Real Estate. Even the sages of the Talmud weighed in on the topic of Real Estate investment, with [...]
