Portland
Blog: This Week in Portland August 11,
2012
Hey,
Portlanders. Welcome to
another edition of our all-local Portland
blog! This weekend in Portland we've got two popular Portland
events, The Bite of Oregon ,
and the Albert Street Fair in NE Portland!
15th Annual
Alberta Street Fair Portland
http://albertamainst.org/street-fair/
VIDEO
The
Bite of Oregon
August 10-12, Waterfront
Park, Portland Oregon.
Fromhttp://www.biteoforegon.com/
This year marks our 29th year supporting Special Olympics Oregon while
celebrating Oregon’s magnificent culinary bounty! Renown as
Oregon’s premier culinary festival, this three day event
features an abundance of mouth watering menu items offered by some of
Oregon’s culinary finest. Whether it’s sampling a
multitude of small plates or enjoying a meal sized portion, the choices
are varied, delicious and plentiful!
Ridgefield
National Wildlife Refuge by Earl R. Thomas
From
http://www.fws.gov/ridgefieldrefuges/complex/
www.SouthWaterfrontStorage.com
503.226.7777
The
Portland Photo of the Week
The
Portland Photo of the
Week is by
Earl R. Thomas, "The Flasher".
Our Portland
Photo of the Week winner gets a
$20 gift certificate to a local Portland business of our choosing. This
week our winner is treated to
Powells Books , the largest indie
bookstore in the world!
The Flasher
- by Earl R. Thomas
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more photos like this on PortlandNeighborhood.com Powell's Bookstore Picks
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Amuse Yourself
Written by
PortlandNeighborhood Guest
Writer, Rob
Creighton Garrison
I'm reading Chelsea
Cain's The
Night Season , her fourth novel
featuring Portland Police Detective Archie Sheridan and his nemesis,
the seductive and vicious serial killer Gretchen Lowell (the fifth in
the series, Kill You Twice ,
has just been released ohmygaw! )
I love this series, not
the
least because Portland itself could easily be included in the cast of
characters. Cain rarely mentions a facet of the city without
lingering for a bit, allowing her readers to pick it up and hold it for
a time, get to know it ourselves. She obviously loves the
city, but she's never slavish in her affections and often this lovely,
willfully quirky town serves as a target for her sardonic wit.
In The
Night Season , one venerable
institution serves as the prominent backdrop early in the
story: Oaks
Amusement Park .
Do I need to tell you
that it's
a fave destination among the kids in our 'hood? If you've
been there yourself, I think not. Do I need to tell you that
the park is one hundred and seven years old? Maybe, since
Americans by and large are more interested in how new something is
rather than how old. But when you look around while at the
park, there is undeniably a sense of longevity and
permanence. It wouldn't be out of place to spy a bowler or a
bustle in the crowd (well, this is Portland, so your chances are fairly
good anyway). But think of that. It's possible that
for your great-grandparents, there has always
been Oaks Amusement Park. Even floods
can't keep it down.
Kids and amusement
parks. My ears .
Myself, I don't have the
inner
ear for a lot of these rides, and some of the names suggest that I not
even look directly at them while they're in operation. The
Screaming Eagle? I have a white-fingered grip on my bike's
brakes going down a hill, so no, thank you. The
Eruption? You wanna see an eruption, put me on that thing.
It's difficult not to get
caught up in the excitement though, watching kids queue up to have
their equilibriums and stomachs tested, seeing how closely terror and
delight are linked for a child.
Of course there's food,
the
kind that make your physician weep in frustration, so what more
temptation do you need? For the health and/or wallet
conscious, there are picnic facilities as well so you can enjoy a lunch
you built yourself, with a river view. That's my kind of ride
right there.
Like skating?
The
park has a rink. Like to watch some skating of the more
contusive variety? Come to The Hangar for some Rose
City Rollers
warfare on wheels.
This place is great for
both
the outer and the inner child. Dang it. It's a nice
day out. Work sucks. I wanna go NOW.
Featured
Portland Events this Week
Each week, we feature a handful of member-added events to the blog.
You can always add your own Portland events directly to the
Portland events calendar. Visit http://community.portlandneighborhood.com/events
August
10, 2012 at 6pm to September
2, 2012 at 6pm – Land
Susie Ghahremani, the
award-winning
illustrator renowned for
her Boygirlparty® line of artwork and
products, will be exhibiting at the Land Gallery in Portland, Oregon
from August 10-September 2, 201…
Organized
by Land | Type: art ,
show
August
11, 2012 from 10:30am to 3pm
– Beaumont
Middle School If
you attended Beaumont Elementary School in the late 60s and 70s, before
it became a middle school, you're invited to attend a Beaumont reunion
on Saturday, August 11, 10:30am-12pm at Beaumont Midd…
Organized
by Ellyn Terry and Alicia Hasson | Type: reunion
August
11, 2012 from 10:30am to 3pm
– Beaumont
Middle School Beaumont
Elementary School Reunion and Community Field Day!
A reunion brunch will be held 10:30am-12pm for alumni who attended
Beaumont when it was still an elementary school.
A traditional Beaumon…
Organized
by Ellyn
Terry | Type: reunion
August
11, 2012 from 11am to 7pm
– "NE
Alberta St" One
of the best summer festivals in Portland, the 15th Annual Alberta
Street Fair.
http://albertamainst.org/street-fair/
In addition to local vendors, musicians, artisans and local businesses,
Albert…
Organized
by Alberta Street Fair | Type: alberta
street fair
August
11, 2012 from 12pm to 4pm
– Portland
Breweries: Coalition, Hopworks, Breakside & Lompoc Side Bar
Our Saturday Imbibing tour is a
good mix of learning about beer and the brewing process and having a
great time. The tour visits four different Portland breweries, but we
only get one, very detailed…
Organized
by Brewvana
- Portland Brewery Tour | Type: brewery
tour
August
11, 2012 at 3:30pm to August
12, 2012 at 7pm – The
Hollywood Theatre Sesame
Street at 40 - 8/11 + 8/12 - This best-of compilation features dozens
of classic moments in the forty-year history of the show, including
excerpts from the first episode, celebrity guests (Lil…
Organized
by The
Hollywood Theatre | Type: family ,
film
August
11, 2012 at 7:30pm to August
14, 2012 at 11pm – The
Hollywood Theatre Inside
the Sesame Street Vault - 8/11 + 8/14 - This super
entertaining program highlights the contributions of Jim Henson and his
early SESAME STREET collaborators Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Fran Brill…
Organized
by The
Hollywood Theatre | Type: family ,
film
August
11, 2012 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
– The
Hollywood Theatre This
program is a collection of experimental shorts, crazy commercials, and
other rarities from the Henson vault. Highlights include: a legendary
commercial and industrial film for Wilson’s Meat that…
Organized
by The
Hollywood Theatre | Type: family ,
film
August
11, 2012 from 8pm to 10pm
– the
Vagabond's Theatre Vaudeville
act offers Tarot-themed evening of fun and frolic at the
Vagabond's Theatre NE Alberta & 19th, vaudeville performers the
Red Raven Follies will present “The Fool’s Journey
Roadshow”…
Organized
by Rose
City Vaudeville | Type: vaudeville ,
variety ,
show
August
Portland Real Estate Report
August 2012
Portland Oregon Real Estate Market Report: What's Happening?
Here is a chart of all
homes
for sale, pending for sale, and sold in Portland, Oregon for the last
15 months:
In July 2012, inventory
has
risen slightly with 2006 homes on the market. In
July 2012, 654 homes sold and 832 are pending for
sale.
Yearly
change from July 11 to July 12:
Inventory
is Down 27.1%
Closed
Sales are Up
.3%.
Pending
sales are Up 45.5%.
Chart
for average price per square footage:
Yearly
change from July 11 to July 12: Up 6.2%
Days
on market and sold/list price %:
Y early
change from July 11 to July 12:
Average
time it takes to sell a home has decreased 25.4%.
The
percentage of original listing price that was paid has increased 3.2%.
Average
price for sale vs. average price of sold:
Yearly change from
July 11
to July 12:
The
average price of a home listed has increased 5.2%.
The
average price of a home sold has increased 9.1%.
Months
of inventory:
Months of inventory
gives a
timeline of how long it would take for all of the current listings to
sell. Anything above 4 months is considered a buyers market. In July
2012, this figure was 3.6 months based on closed sales.
Portland is currently, on average, a balanced market. This does NOT
mean that it will take, on average, 3.6 months for your home
to sell. That number was, on average in all price ranges, 53
days. It means that, if not a single listing were
to come on the market in Portland from this moment, it would
take 3.6 months for all available homes to sell before there
would be none left.
Yearly
change from July 11 to July 12:
The
months of inventory figure has decreased 27.3%.
About
the report:
This is a comparison of
the
past 15 months (including a percentage change analysis for the last 12
months) for all of Portland and are taken directly from the RMLS. What
follows is my own analysis of these statistics. For our purposes, I
thought it best to analyze Portland as a whole. Each neighborhood,
however, is a little micro-universe and has its own market. Changing
the parameters of the zip codes, price variables, or time periods can
lead to very different results. This analysis is of all homes sold in
all price ranges in Portland, Oregon. If you have any questions about
specific zip codes, or any questions about the market in general,
please reply to this forum with those questions or feel free to contact
me at: http://www.propertiesofportland.com.
Since Portland is a neighborhood city, you can now search by
"Irvington, Alberta, etc.". You can check it out by clicking here.
Visit our website
where
you can contact us and search all Portland Metro Area homes for sale
from the RMLS in Portland, OR, including school and neighborhood
reports: http://www.propertiesofportland.com
Best
Deals in Portland this Week
Each
week Ross and Leah share five great Portland real estate
deals from their listings.
The
Best Deals in Portland This Week: August 6th - August 13th
1.
2124 SE 29TH AVE Portland, OR 97214 - Richmond - $1,500,000
Click
the image to see the listing
2.
3220 SW UPPER CASCADE DR Portland, OR 97205 - Arlington Heights -
$850,000
Click
the image to see the listing
3. 2432
NE HALSEY ST. Portland, OR 97232 - Sullivan's
Gulch - $547,000
Click
the image to see the listing
4.
416 NW 13TH AVE #603 Portland, OR 97209 - Pearl District -
$449,750
Click
the image to see the listing
5.
1455 N Killingsworth ST #405 Portland, OR 97217 - Overlook -
$181,900
Click
the image to see the listing
Visit
our website where you can contact us and search all
Portland metro area homes for sale and real estate from the
RMLS, including neighborhood and school information: www.propertiesofportland.com
Did you know there are
nearly 100 unique Portland neighborhoods? Read
and learn all about these interesting urban communities .
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