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Senior Real Estate Specialist Portland OR | Navigating Senior Home Transitions with SRES® Guidance

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Jenny Quirie Realtor® | Divorce Real Estate Specialist & Senior Real Estate Specialist (SRES®) | Strategic Guidance for Important Life Moves March 5, 2026 Life transitions become more complex as we age. For seniors in the Portland, Oregon area considering a move — whether to downsize, relocate closer to family, or transition into an active adult community or retirement community — the stakes are often higher than they were decades ago. This is not simply a real estate transaction. It is a financial, emotional, and lifestyle shift that deserves thoughtful and specialized guidance. Today's senior population holds a significant portion of our nation's real estate wealth. At the same time, seniors are statistically more vulnerable to financial exploitation, high-pressure sales tactics, and poorly structured transactions. During moments of transition — especiall...
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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...
Location: Newberg, OR 97132, USA
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Is Now the Time to Buy a Home?

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  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 ...
Location: Newberg, OR 97132, USA
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Market Snapshot 02/27/23 through 03/05/23

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