The Salem Oregon Real Estate News

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Real Estate Agent - Tomson Burnham, llc Licensed in the State of Oregon
For information regarding Salem Oregon metro area real estate and homes, communities, neighborhoods, and other real estate market news.
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Despite having a 12% unemployment rate, the Salem Oregon real estate markets are heading in the right direction. Inventories have decreased in all of our local cities in the second quarter. Click on the link to read about each local market.   Salem Oregon Quarterly Real Estate Market Report Keize...
07/14/2009
SmartMoney wrote a brief article the other day called “10 things your real estate broker won’t tell you.”   I posted my thoughts about that article, but was given a great title by Larry Morris and had to run with it...  so dear news reporters...this one is for you.    "I am really biased."  Now, ...
07/13/2009
There are old home buyers and new home buyers. For old home buyers, the Court-Chemeketa Historic District here in Salem Oregon has some gorgeous homes. Located just off the downtown area, Court-Chemeketa is conviently located to coffee shops, grocery store, bistros, and has that "walkability fact...
07/05/2009
There is a new website called Salemites.com that is a local gathering place for local folks to talk about what is happening in our area.  We are fortunate to have many local bloggers giving all sorts of different persepctives on our city.  This can be an invaluable tool for those of you looking t...
07/01/2009
"I need freeway access." "I want to live down south." "I want to be able to walk downtown."   Those are just a few of the statements that potential home buyers make when trying to decide where to look.  For those of you relocating to the Salem Oregon area, sometimes trying to figure out where our...
06/30/2009
Old McSalem had a farm E-I-E-I-O and on that farm he had some hens E-I-E-I-O with a cluck, cluck here and a cluck, cluck there here a cluck, there a cluck, everywhere a cluck, cluck. Old McSalem had a farm E-I-E-I-O   I wrote a post not too long ago about the chicken ban that Salem Oregon has in...
06/28/2009
Anyone that wants to look at living outside city limits or on acreage property in the Salem Oregon area is going to be looking at having a septic system of one kind or another. If you are wanting to purchase a home and have never had a septic system before there are some basics that you should kn...
06/25/2009
This is some great information for our local folks that did an Oregon Bond Loan. With Oregon at 12.4% unemployment, many of our residents are struggling. I have heard from several Oregon Bond borrowers now who are struggling due to financial hardships, and running in to difficulties due to the ow...
06/24/2009
I always relish June 1 every year. Typically Oregon strawberries start to ripen and are just waiting to be plucked and eaten. Every year we take the kids to a local u-pick and pick strawberries. We eat a lot of them over the winter so we pick a bunch and freeze them. There is nothing like waffles...
06/23/2009
    The Salem Oregon metro area is filled with smaller towns.  Small towns are a huge part of Oregon, in fact.  Analysis of small towns is really difficult due to lack of sales volume, so for the smaller Marion and Polk county cities I am just giving year to date averages rather than month to mo...
06/17/2009
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