Hood River Real Estate and Columbia Gorge Real Estate

….Just had a funny phone call with a Seller’s agent. Some people don’t change when the market shifts………They hammer their same old tired lines about this and that, lecturing about how the Buyer has to do this, and the buyer has to do that……….and the entire time I can’t get this picture out of my head. Flourescent Pink wetsuits on the beach. (It’s a cliche’ for an out of touch windsurfer.)

Enough!

I’m calling it. It is now a Buyer’s market in Hood River. From 600 and down. Sellers are piling up everywhere! Oil, Interest rates, lack of a vibrant recoverable enonmy here in HR,(Tourism is veneer-thin, and a bad long term bet anyway) Measure 37…….I could go on, but it’s monday and I don’t want to depress everyone this week.

Tough to determine any tremors right now. More of the strength in the upper range, and weakness in the lower. Our Townhomes are so ripe it’s killing me! I expect they’ll all sell in the next week or so, there are so many people waiting for them to be finished! That, and the developer is going on vacation, a surefire way to shake out the deals. They are all painted on the outside, and the first one should be done any day now………

Buyers are beginning to move in. Expect lots of offers and counter offers this week, and a flush of deals………….

Mornings are cold. I got my first breath of Fall this morning……..It was refreshing! Welcome August! Fall, and my Coast days are not far away!!!!

Maui

Good week this last one. Lots of Buyers in the market, and selling weakness in the lower end. HUGE discounts being bargained for, but very few being bitten on.

Traditionally, this month is quiet, and then there’s a rush for property in August. This year, we have a rush in July, and I think that manyo of these Buyers will be back in August, when things moderate……….

Busy though! Lots of very nice people, interesting conversations, and property touring.

Keep it comming!

Maui