Annette Sievert's Real Estate Blog

All the Christmas stuff is gone, the New Year’s Eve hangover is history, the phone starts to ring again. I took two listings in the week before Christmas and three more are in the near future, so plenty of good work coming my way. This morning I looked at our MLS for properties in Corvallis, OR a...

  In the last years since the "crash" there were a lot of blogs, comments and articles, cursing "greed". Very often, everything that pertains to the will to earn AND keep what one earned is summarized with that word, especially, when the amount earned is above a certain threshold. It seems the wo...

Corvallis           Price Range Active Listings as of 12/30/2011 Sold Listings Last 6 Mos. Average Sold Per Month Months of Inventory Av. Days on Market Solds $0 - $99,999 6 3 0.50 12.00 217 $100,000 - $149,999 6 11 1.83 3.27 138 $150,000 - $199,999  21 38 6.33 3.32 111 $200,000 - $249,999 41 85...

Philomath           Price Range Active Listings as of 12/30/2011 Sold Listings Last 6 Mos. Average Sold Per Month Months of Inventory Av. Days on Market Solds $0 - $99,999 2 1 0.17 * 53 $100,000 - $149,999 3 5 0.83 3.60 158 $150,000 - $199,999  11 18 3.00 3.67 128 $200,000 - $249,999 6 3 0.50 12...

Lebanon           Price Range Active Listings as of 12/30/2011 Sold Listings Last 6 Months Average Sold Per Month Months of Inventory Av. Days on Market Solds $0 - $99,999 37 46 7.67 4.83 142 $100,000 - $149,999 39 58 9.67 4.03 130 $150,000 - $199,999  43 15 2.50 17.20 121 $200,000 - $249,999 9 ...

North Albany (Benton County)         Price Range Active Listings as of 12/30/2011 Sold Listings Last 6 Months Average Sold Per Month Months of Inventory Av. Days on Market Solds $0 - $99,999 1 0 0.00 * * $100,000 - $149,999 1 7 1.17 0.86 260 $150,000 - $199,999  17 13 2.17 7.85 131 $200,000 - $2...

Albany           Price Range Active Listings as of 12/30/2011 Sold Listings Last 6 Months Average Sold Per Month Months of Inventory Av. Days on Market Solds $0 - $99,999 30 27 4.50 6.67 120 $100,000 - $149,999 66 94 15.67 4.21 127 $150,000 - $199,999  61 74 12.33 4.95 130 $200,000 - $249,999 47...

We want to raise children who aren't brats, who value what they receive and display self-control. Our sons biggest and really only wish for Christmas was an X-Box. Now, I have to say that I am really against electronic toys and my first reaction was: NO! But my husband had some self-interest here...