Hood River Real Estate and Columbia Gorge Real Estate

Looks like Sixth Street got mentioned in Backpacker, and Celilo got mentioned in Food and Wine!

Yikes.

Maui

We used to call July “Tire Kicker Month” but no more. Lots and lots of traffic, many people looking for second homes. It is curious, but I’ve noticed that alot of these people are talking a good game on the second home front, but seem to be looking for a place they can move to. They ask questions (the dead giveaway) like “….And how are the schools?” and you think to yourself “hmm….now, why would you ask that question?”

Land continues to be in short supply. Discounting in the under 500k range is continuing, but not accellerating. (Additionally, skewed by large price adjustments in a recent Condo project) Generally the deals in this range seem to come through in waves….. Last wave was last week, and the heat now has returned to the 500+ range.

One of our companies got a mention in Backpacker Magazine, continuing the “mentions in national magazines” to about six months straight……….

It sure is windy! Windsurfers now have kids, and the kids are all kiteboarding, so there’s lots of parking at the event site in town…………

This one is sooo rare and soooo nice. Beautiful 2.4 acres on the westside, flat and fenced, with a very well thought out home built in 2003. Great finish on this one. It’s one of those “I’ve seen that house for the last three years and wanted to live in it!” kind of phone calls.

There’s too much here to mention. Check out out latest and currently, finest property for sale. (All the others are Sale Pending)

808 Frankton

Lots of activity this week. Pretty balanced on both the Buyer/Seller side, with some major discounting going on in the Townhome market. Our listing, the finest set of townhomes this year, were discounted to $350,000 and $375,000 respectively.

Take a look at the Lincoln Street Townhomes

I got quoted in the S.F. Chronicle this week as well, re: The GOOGLEPLEX. So they ask me a bunch of interesting in depth questions and then post some moderately random quote. Oh well, Can’t win them all. Pleasant conversation, that’s for sure.

Had a bunch of lowball offers come over the transom this week too……It seems the Buyers are slightly overreaching………..A TON of people from Bend this week. And Vegas. Go figure.

Looks like we’ll have a great Summer. The heat has finally arrived. Hood River is in fine form………..