Owners of 5.6 percent of all home mortgages in the Portland area were at least three months late on their mortgage payments in November, or already in some stage of foreclosure, according to a new report by CoreLogic, a Santa Ana, Cali…

Oregon’s foreclosure rate dropped 42 percent in January but the impressive performance both here and nationally is an illusion.
Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac, which released foreclosure data Thursday, said banks have been slowed down by complaints …

Portland-area home prices in December were down 7.9 percent compared to a year earlier, the sixth-highest fall among the nation’s 53 largest metro areas, according to a home price index computed by CoreLogic, a Santa Ana, Calif., rea…

Portland State University is developing a new master’s program for real estate professionals.
The Master of Real Estate Development degree is offered by PSU’s School of Business Administration in collaboration with the College of Urban and Public A…

Oregon continues to be among the nation’s leaders for falling home prices.
An index of Oregon home prices fell 9.61 percent in December compared to one year ago. Excluding distressed sales, they fell 6.3 percent.
Oregon registered the nation’s fourth…

Commercial real estate is making a slow climb upward, but as is typically the case, location has plenty to do with who is recovering the quickest.
As the Wall Street Journal reports, bigger city central business districts are leading the recovery, whil…

The U.S. government is expected to soon release its latest remedy for a devastated housing market. The most aggressive proposals to overhaul the system call for cutting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
As Breaking Views reports, opponents of winding down th…