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The June 2025 Market Action Report for the Portland metropolitan area, published by RMLS, describes a residential real estate market that is steady, if subdued, with slight pricing increases and modest shifts in transactional...more
The Oregon State Land Board – comprised of the Governor, Secretary of State, and State Treasurer – recently appointed Kaitlin Lovell of Colton, Oregon as the new Director of the Oregon Department of State Lands (DSL). Lovell...more
Available data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that Oregon is not meeting Gov. Tina Kotek’s housing production goal of 36,000 new homes per year, nor is it on pace to address the need identified by the 2024 Oregon...more
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek issued Executive Order No. 24-31, titled "Establishing Project Labor Agreements[1] for State Construction Projects" ("EO 24-31" or "Order"), on December 18, 2024. On December 31, 2024, the...more
Portland, like many U.S. metro areas, has an abundance of office vacancies and a shortage of housing. These issues are not news, but rather an obvious — and fixable — disconnect between two real estate market sectors....more
From the campaign trail to the kitchen table, it’s hard to avoid the fact that Oregon has a housing shortage. That crunch is perhaps most severe when it comes to the construction of affordable, multifamily units. Across the...more
Last week, the Oregon Legislature took a significant step to address Oregon’s ongoing housing crisis, as Governor Tina Kotek signed a robust legislative housing package into law. Two pivotal measures, Senate Bill 1537 and...more
On January 31, the Portland City Council passed its Housing Regulatory Relief package. This package, which had been approved by the City Planning Commission on a 7-1 vote in November, follows years of lobbying from the...more
Two years ago, I wrote about how the pace of homebuilding in Oregon was not keeping up with demand. As explained in the post, according to the Oregon Home Builders Association, at that time Oregon was experiencing a demand...more
Real estate attorney David Petersen talks housing solutions in this Ear to The Ground. Across the nation, residential rents continue to outpace wage growth, making housing less affordable for many. In 2022, the national...more
In 2019, the Oregon Legislature passed House Bill 2001 – the “middle housing” law. This new law will bring wide-ranging changes to construction of new housing in Oregon, but has received little press so far....more