What's Happening

You are standing in the primary bedroom at a Sunday open house. The light is great. The closet is bigger than you expected. And then a thought shows up that you did not invite: why is nobody living here? The furniture is gone. Or worse, all of it is still here, arranged a little too carefully. You lean over to your agent and ask, as quietly as you can, the question everybody eventually asks. "Did someone die here?" I get some version of that question every October (and, to be

The offer comes in at a price you can live with. Then you get to page two. The buyers are asking you to cover their closing costs. They would like you to pay for a rate buydown. And they are asking you to pay their agent's commission too. If you are the seller, your first reaction is probably some version of "wait, all of it?" If you are the buyer, you are probably wondering whether asking for all of it makes you look unreasonable, or whether not asking leaves money on the ta

Fall here is short and it rains, so you do not get to do everything. You get about six good weekends, two of which will be a washout, and then it is November and you are wondering where October went. So we stopped trying to do all of it. We have a handful of things we come back to, one we have only done twice and loved both times, and one my husband has been lobbying for that we are finally doing this year. Here is the list, what it costs, and what I have learned the hard way

Your parents' house has forty years in it and nobody handed you a plan. Where to start, what order to do it in, the three questions to take to a CPA, and where to find real help in Washington County.

You painted the whole main floor Agreeable Gray in 2019, back when every design account on the internet agreed that was the answer. New floors while you were at it. New light fixtures. The works. It looked great. It still looks great. And now you are scrolling past headlines telling you gray is over, wondering half seriously whether your house reads as decorated seven years ago. Fair question, and it comes up more than you would think. So let me walk through what changed, and

In July, Beaverton and Aloha had 283 new listings, 175 closed sales, and 65 listings that expired without selling. Here is what separates the two piles, and the fairly long list of things I would tell you not to spend a dollar on.

An article going around says this is the hardest housing market since 2008. Beaverton pending sales rose 22.9% in July while Hillsboro fell 24%. Here is what the July 2026 RMLS numbers actually show, including the part that is genuinely getting worse.

Where to send money that actually helps, why those FEMA headlines are not what you think, and the insurance and mortgage relief Oregon homeowners can use now.

I have been having a version of this conversation a lot lately. A client mentions that her daughter's fifth-grade class has nearly 30 kids while the kindergarten down the hall has two sections of 15. A neighbor brings up schools combining grades. Someone asks me what is actually going on and whether it affects home values. These are not small questions, and I do not think they deserve a non-answer. So here is what I actually know, what the data says, and what it means if you

If you've been searching for a home in Tigard for any amount of time, you already know how quickly the good ones go. The homes with the right layout, the right location, and the right condition don't sit around waiting. So when one comes up that checks all three boxes, it's worth slowing down and taking a real look. 10474 SW Lucy Ct is that home. The Layout Actually Works Most buyers come into a search with a list. Enough bedrooms, enough bathrooms, a garage, a yard. But afte