Born and raised in affluent Potomac Maryland, Oliver developed an interest in Luxury Real Estate at an early age… Beginning his career in Hotel Management he began buying and selling properties until he finally made the full transition into Real Estate Sales. Bringing together his customer service skills developed in the Hotel industry and his understanding of Real Estate from both the buying and selling side, Oliver opened his Real Estate sales business in 2003. Oliver spent 6 successful years […]

For the young and employed, choosing where to live is often more of a lifestyle decision than strictly a matter of cost or proximity to work. Hip neighborhood? They’ll be there. This home is listed at $689,000 in the trendy Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Click the photo to go …Once word gets out that a neighborhood is trendy, prices shoot up as the available inventory falls through the floor. That’s the key finding in a new study that names […]

Realtor.com studied the top ZIP code searches at its site to determine which neighborhoods are the most-searched and hottest places to live in America for 2012. The following five places topped the list: Old Town in Chicago, Ill. Willows Bend Country in Plano, Texas Keller in Fort Worth, Texas Spring Valley in Las Vegas Stoneybrook in Orlando, Fla. The author of this article is: realtormag.realtor.org  See the original post at: http://realtormag.realtor.org/daily-news/2013/01/18/5-hottest-neighborhoods-in-us At GayRealEstate.com, we keep you updated with all the gay realtor, […]

Household formation, which stagnated when recession kept many young Americans from leaving their parents’ home or forced others to return to them, is finally on the rise. The number of households increased 1.1 million in 2011 and nearly 1.2 million last year, underpinned by gradual labor market gains and steady economic improvement. RBS analyst Guy Berger remarks, “The rise in household formation bodes well for the housing recovery. Instead of having too many houses, we are turning to a situation […]

Are you looking for a realtor to listen, care, laugh, and look out for your best interests. Having been a tour guide, I’m able to show you ALL our beautiful town has to offer ~ Let’s explore the different neighborhoods together. Oregon First is the largest locally owned, non-franchise real estate brokerage in the State of Oregon. Since our founding in 1994, we have been consistently listed in the Portland Business Journal’s annual survey of Top Residential Real Estate Firms. […]

Cameron has over 12 years of real estate experience! Throughout his career, Cameron developed valuable real estate experience and maintained relationships with several large corporations to assist their newly hired employees in locating their new home in the area and also handled marketing and managing the vacant homes left by the exiting employees that had already moved on to their new assignments. This was highly demanding and helped hone his client relation skills and both his corporate and individual clients […]

Builder confidence remained unchanged in January, holding a level of 47 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo housing market index. This follows eight consecutive monthly gains and continues to be the highest level since April 2006. “Conditions in the housing market look much better now than at the beginning of 2012 and an increasing number of housing markets are showing signs of recovery, which should bode well for future home sales later this year,” said Barry Rutenberg, chairman […]

Another housing indicator is showing nationwide home prices moving up, with prices up 7.4 percent over year-ago levels, CoreLogic reports. That marks the biggest year-over-year increase since 2006. CoreLogic’s home price index includes sales prices of distressed properties, short sales, and bank-owned homes. When excluding distressed sales, home prices gained 6.7 percent in November year-over-year, according to CoreLogic. Notably, some of the largest home price gains are in Arizona, Nevada and California — places where investors continue to snap up […]

Inventory levels of for-sale homes at the end of 2012 were down 17.3 percent from year-ago levels, reaching the lowest level in more than five years, Realtor.com reports. In some areas, inventories have dropped 68 percent over the year. “It’s been a buyers’ market for a while. Sellers have been reluctant to put their homes on the market,” says Steve Berkowitz, chief executive of Move Inc., which operates Realtor.com. As housing numbers roll out for January and February in the […]

Dedicated Multi-Million dollar seller who knows how to listen. After 12 years in the business I think my previous clients say it best… “Our family has moved eight times and we have never worked with a realtor who was as professional, thorough and concerned for our move as Allen was.” R.H. Intl Paper “Allen helped in all sorts of ways. He made sure that he understood what we wanted in a home,…His professionalism, preparation, intuition, extreme hard work and knowledge […]