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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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5 Ways to Help Secure Your Home

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  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...
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Oregon & SW Washington Weekend Planner: March 3rd-5th, 2023

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  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...
Location: Newberg, OR 97132, USA
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Housing Outlook 2023

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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 ...
Location: Newberg, OR 97132, USA
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