Jenny Quirie Home Services

PORTLAND:   TULIP FESTIVAL Tulip Fest   is here! Our family looks forward to welcoming you to our 39th annual Tulip Festival to experience the beauty and create new memories.  We have millions of beautiful tulips for our guests to enjoy on our family farm. EARTH DAY CELEBRATION Join Portland Fruit Tree Project to celebrate the abundance of our urban canopy this  Earth Day ! This casual family-fun day will be held at beautiful Rossi Farms in the Parkrose neighborhood. This is a day-long event with plant sales, music, games, bounce houses, food and drink, and more. OREGON SYMPHONY Music Director David Danzmayr leads the  Oregon Symphony  with its curious sleigh bells, puckish woodwinds, and a moving finale that imagines a child’s awe-inspiring vision of Heaven. Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling enchants with the “purity of her sound” (Gramophone) in both the Mahler and Osvaldo Golijov’s tender, tragic Three Songs. PORTLAND SATURDAY MARKET Come shop local a...

  As the spring home buying season kicks off, you may be ready to buy a home of your own, but continuing inflation, high home prices and high interest rates may be giving you pause. Is now a good time to buy a home? Market conditions are changing. According to a new  report , national mortgage rates have gone from a high of 7.37% in October, to 6.2% into January 2023. Home prices in November were 2.5% lower than the peak achieved in spring 2022, and 42% of home sellers offered concessions in Q-4, 2022. Also boosting homebuyer confidence is that the job market has improved. In  January 2023 , the national unemployment rate lowered to 3.5% as employers added an unexpected 223,000 new jobs. While those shifts aren’t monumental, they’re making some consumers feel better about the housing market; homebuyers believe home prices will fall through Q3-2023, and they also said they believe mortgage rates will come down, despite the Federal Reserve’s determination to tame inflation ...

 

  There’s more you can do to discourage burglars than an alarm system when you’re away. Burglars look for easy targets, where they can get in and out quickly. They pick a house and watch it to learn your comings and goings and for signs that you’re gone. So what can you do? Make it harder for burglars. Smart Phone Security.  Make cameras visible and install them in more places than the front door. You can access your security cameras anytime, anywhere and get alerts when visitors are detected. You can store video clips and recorded audio to the cloud. Neighbors.  Meet your neighbors and exchange numbers.   Watch their homes when they’re gone and ask them to watch yours for any suspicious activity. Have your neighbor pick up mail, flyers on your door or packages left on your doorstep. Trash.  Burglars look through trash for valuable personal records and through empty boxes to learn about purchases, such as pricey new electronics. Make sure to shred important docu...

Repairs or replacements that the homebuyer requires to be completed before closing on the sale of your home can blindside you if you’re not prepared. While any unforeseen expenses are an unwelcome surprise, you’ll still have to fix the problems or risk letting your buyer out of the contract and having to disclose the problems to future homebuyers. Homebuyers have the right to have the home they’re buying professionally inspected. The purpose of the inspection is to inform the buyer as to the condition, age and likely lifespan of major systems and appliances in the home. As a contingency in the contract, the buyer has the choice to proceed with the contract or ask the seller for repairs or replacements. This is fair because many issues with a home can’t be seen with the naked eye. An inspection gives a rough idea of future expenditures; if there are more problems than the buyer is willing to allow, the transaction will be in jeopardy. The buyer can’t help but wonder what other problems ...

  Oregon & SW Washington Weekend Planner: March 3rd-5th, 2023     PORTLAND:       PORTLAND SEAFOOD & WINE FESTIVAL Seafood lovers! Wine lovers! Your weekend is here!! The 17th annual  Portland Seafood & Wine Festival  is at the Portland Expo Center this Friday and Saturday featuring over 100,000 sq. ft. of fresh seafood, incredible Oregon Wines, shopping, music, and more. BONUS: Your Seafood & Wine Fest ticket also grants you admission into the Portland Golf Show in the hall next door!     PORTLAND GOLF SHOW In addition to huge savings and a first look at the newest clubs, enjoy free lessons, instructional seminars, golf fitness, kids areas, a 19th hole lounge and fun tests of skill, including long drive, putting, chipping and closest-to-the-pin contests at the  Portland Golf Show .     MONSTER JAM Monster Jam  brings adrenaline-charged family entertainment to fans across the country. These world-class...

  Luxury Property Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jenny Quirie Named Berkshire  Hathaway HomeServices Luxury Collection  Specialist Designation reflects Quirie ' s knowledge and expertise in the high -end real estate market [ NEWBERG , OREGON]   – Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northwest Real Estate announce s that Jenny Quirie earned the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Luxury Collection Specialist accreditation. To achieve this title , Jenny Quirie exemplifies what it means to provide outstanding service to buyers and sellers in the luxury market, completed specialized training and achieved other personal electives that advanced Quirie's career as a luxury agent. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices also offers a Luxury Collection Marketing Program designed to leverage the strength and reliability of the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices brand and system — one of the fastest-growing real estate brokerage franchise networks in the wor...

Property management and home watch companies offer a wide range of services for second-home owners. From routine maintenance to concierge services, they can protect your property from potential problems during your absence and make it turn-key ready for your visits. Costs vary among providers depending on the types of services you want, the frequency of inspections, whether you have a swimming pool or other water features, along with the size and location of the property. The inspection you’ll most likely need is monthly testing of all appliances and systems in the home, including alarm system, air conditioner and plumbing to make sure they’re working properly. The property manager will also notify you of signs of wear so repairs can be made. Concierge services can include hiring and supervising housekeepers, landscapers, pool cleaners and repair professionals. Property managers can accept deliveries for you, forward your mail and prepare your home for your arrivals with groceries, fre...

In the latest Real Estate Forecast Summit, Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist at the National Association of Realtors (NAR), drew comparisons between the last housing cycle and the current housing cycle: And in today’s market, with inventory rising and  less competition  from other buyers, there’s opportunity right now. “ This may be the one and only window for the next few years to get into a buyer’s market. And remember…as the Federal Reserve data shows…home prices only go up and always recover from recessions no matter how mild or severe. Long term homeowners should view this market…right now…as a unique buying opportunity,” says David Stevens, former Assistant Secretary of Housing. Full Story…    https://www.keepingcurrentmatters.com/2023/01/11/todays-housing-market-is-nothing-like-15-years-ago/

What will the new year bring for homebuyers, homeowners and home sellers? Lower or higher home prices? Higher or lower mortgage interest rates? Or a continuation of the overheated pandemic-inspired housing market? There’s no question that the blistering housing market of the past three years was hard on homebuyers. By October 2022, the average  mortgage interest rate  for a 30-year fixed is 7.24%, more than double the 3.22% level in January 2022. According to  Fannie Mae , the combination of high inflation, monetary policy tightening, and a slowing housing market is “likely to tip the economy into a modest recession in the first quarter of 2023.” Many  economic forecasters  believe housing prices will decline, but that homebuyers shouldn’t fear buying during a declining market. Morgan Stanley predicts a 7% dip in home prices for 2023 that would return housing prices to where they were in January 2022 – 32% higher than prices were in March 2020 when the pandemic ...