eugene real estate blog

Owning a home is the ultimate American dream, and for some of us, we get to go one step ahead and build the home of our dreams. The newest trend is to build green by using materials that are environment friendly, designing spaces to utilize energy more efficiently, furnishing your home with Energy Star rated appliances, avoiding wastage and using natural resources as much as possible. There’s...

The Register Guard recently reported that the State of Oregon has given Eugene approximately $200k to clean up the city in advance of the Olympic Trials. This has been fantastic, and has discouraged graffiti "artists" from polluting sidewalks and signs in parks. It has also impacted Eugene citizens' perception of their city, and city leadership. Temporarily at least. All for $200k. I encourage...

Avot Media is working with Home Depot to provide in-store "how to" videos for certain Home Depot product lines. Here's an even better use of this technology: 1. A home buyer drives by a house in a neighborhood they like, and takes a flyer. 2. On the flyer (or the box if the agent forgot to refill it), is a text number. 3. The person, an avid American Idol fan, knows how to text. 4. They text...

Which Northwest city was hit hardest in 2007? Difficult to say. Each of these cities were hit equally hard. However, these cities may have narrowly missed the negative equity tide that washed away markets in a number of California cities, especially Vallejo. In fact, the charts below suggest that the NW is pulling out of a relatively mild real estate slump. First, Eugene.. Then Portland....

Springfield has pushed through another coup. They are targeting lower class sizes, on average, than Eugene. Another bold approach for a City that is doing its best to climb out of, and make the best of the Simpsons (ironically, a source of pride)/Anti-anyone-differe nt reputation their community leaders and citizenry helped to cultivate for over a decade. A magnificent new hospital that Eugene...

So Trulia has incorporated Google maps' Street view into their listings. Here's an example from a listing in Portland. It's not exactly a tour of the home. In fact, you can hardly see the home from the street, but it does give you an opportunity to tour the neighborhood without driving to it. I'm sure that Trulia would like to have a street view for Eugene as well. Unfortunately Google has...

A friend of mine has challenged me to PROVE my Roost post. He's not buying it. I like it. So which one claimed the MLS search flag? Find out below: Yahoo! Real Estate general MLS Search (Note: my day job is with a company owned by Yahoo!) showed 1258. A Googlebase search of "for sale" in "eugene, OR" resulted in 1232 listings. #1 by raw listing count. - Roost, pushed 1321 listings....