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That and a very rigid urban growth boundary keeping the housing supply at a premium......It will crash again. It always does. But portland is probably always gonna be more expensive than the olden days. Its a desired location
It will crash again. It always does. But portland is probably always gonna be more expensive than the olden days. Its a desired location
There's no doubt in my mind that Californian rent and developer practices have polluted Oregon's market..my mailbox is filled daily with realators wanting to buy my acreage so they can subdivide it.
Many young adults are sitting on the sidelines of the housing market, and there’s no shortage of theories as to why. Maybe millennials can’t land jobs that will let them move out of their parents’ basements, or maybe they’re too buried in student loan debts to contemplate adding a mortgage to their financial obligations.
But new data shows that one huge factor is the competition — some might say unfair competition — young adults face from investors who can just swoop in, drop a pile of cash and buy the houses they want. These investors then turn around and rent these properties to those same young adults for increasing amounts every year, making it even tougher for young would-be homeowners to ever save up enough money for a down payment.
As of October, a huge number of homes — one in four — that sold were bought by investors paying cash. That’s down some from the peak of a few years ago, when almost one in three houses were snapped up by cash buyers. But it’s still a far cry from the 17% of homes that were bought by investors back in 2000 before the real estate bubble grew and burst, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Investors are most likely to snap up cheap, starter homes — the kinds of houses that millennials are most likely to be looking for and able to afford. “Home supply is diminishing but investor demand is not going away,” Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, told the Journal, which reported that the number of homes on the market below the $100,000 mark fell by about 11% in only a year.
During the height of the foreclosure crisis, investors were buying up foreclosed and short-sale properties at rock-bottom prices with the intention of flipping them and reselling for a profit once the market picked back up. But now, more are hanging onto the homes they buy and renting them out.
It’s a good move for investors who have the cash to spare already, but it’s bad news for the people who want to buy low- and mid-priced homes. Across the country, rental rates are skyrocketing: One prediction said rents could rise by an average of 8% this year, with much higher increases in in-demand markets where young adults are most likely to live and work. And this is on top of increases that have already taken place. “The median asking rent for new market rate apartments hit $1,372 last year, a 26 percent increase from 2012,” a report published in December by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies said.
In lane county they want land, not fixers...they are running out of places to build cul de sacs...they'd doze my buildings, put in a couple roads and build eight new houses....I'm still out of the city limits so I plan to keep it that way. I'll never sell.Hate to say but its not a bubble, its a shift in who owns what. The houses are being bought up by investors using cash. They are not flipping them, they are renting them out and riding the house value surge, which is fulled by more investors. Its edging first time buyers out with cash and above value offers, and people who had issues in the 2008 crash are edged out due to credit. Its happening in most major cities across the country and if fucking sucks if you dont already own.
http://time.com/money/4227153/millennials-cant-buy-homes-cash-buyers-investors/
In lane county they want land, not fixers...they are running out of places to build cul de sacs...they'd doze my buildings, put in a couple roads and build eight new houses....I'm still out of the city limits so I plan to keep it that way. I'll never sell.
They are trying turn it into a tourist destination for rich people with all these dammed condos they are building. How many summer crash pads for rich people are needed?
And the homeless population is being handed bus tickets for California instead of being put in transition programs to get them back on their feet....treated like sewer rats.
Economy is going to hell. Education is going to hell. Everything is going to hell.
I think I might run for mayor
They've been doing that in California and Vegas for years with the mentally ill. Since they deem it too much too pay to have them hosptalized or provide services to get them functional. In fact it's kind of an annual bus circuit back and forth between the two states and Phoenix. Portland and Seattle are now in the mix as new residents call for more police to get that scum off their front lawn.
My question is that when people lose their job and go completely under the poverty line.... is that when they lose their humanity and we no longer have any empathy?
In lane county they want land, not fixers...they are running out of places to build cul de sacs...they'd doze my buildings, put in a couple roads and build eight new houses....I'm still out of the city limits so I plan to keep it that way. I'll never sell.
My cousin owns a house on MLK and Church. 3 stories 6 bedrooms. He paid 89K. He's been getting offers in the 550K range so they can Airbnb the shit out of it. He says fuck them and their gentrification. He will never sell.
My cousin owns a house on MLK and Church. 3 stories 6 bedrooms. He paid 89K. He's been getting offers in the 550K range so they can Airbnb the shit out of it. He says fuck them and their gentrification. He will never sell.
He should sell it and move to Italy. I wonder if they'd let me in.My cousin owns a house on MLK and Church. 3 stories 6 bedrooms. He paid 89K. He's been getting offers in the 550K range so they can Airbnb the shit out of it. He says fuck them and their gentrification. He will never sell.
He should sell it and move to Italy. I wonder if they'd let me in.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/08/europe/italy-supreme-court-masturbation/index.html

My cousin owns a house on MLK and Church. 3 stories 6 bedrooms. He paid 89K. He's been getting offers in the 550K range so they can Airbnb the shit out of it. He says fuck them and their gentrification. He will never sell.
Because of the rain, or the ridiculous homeless problem?It will crash again. It always does. But portland is probably always gonna be more expensive than the olden days. Its a desired location
Water. And our summers are gorgeous.Because of the rain, or the ridiculous homeless problem?
Can't argue about those summersWater. And our summers are gorgeous.
