(From NAR August 25th)
Nationally Existing-Home Sales Show Gains
Existing-home sales, including single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, increased 3.1 percent in July to a seasonally adjusted rate of 5.00 million units from June but were 13.2 percent lower than the 5.76 million units estimated in July 2007, NAR report. The sales increase was the highest in five months.
The national median sale price of existing homes was $212,400 in July. Housing supply rose 3.9 percent to 4.67 million existing homes available for sale at the end of July, which represents an 11.2-month supply at the current sales pace. NAR says the increase in supply may be due to an increase in condo inventory while the supply of single-family homes declined.
In the West. Existing-home sales climbed 9.7 percent in July to 1.13 million units and are 0.9 percent higher than a year ago. The median price in the West was $273,200, down 22.2 percent from July 2007.
Analysis of NAR price data since 1968 shows home prices normally rise 1 to 2 percentage points above the overall rate of inflation, building wealth over the typical period of homeownership.
This is great news, for those sellers that have been wondering when we will hit bottom!
These real estate sales are only taken from The Dalles real estate sales that a REALTOR was involved in and do not include Unrepresented sellers in The Dalles real estate market
Below are the properties - real estate that sold last week in The Dalles, Oregon and Dallesport Washington area.
100 3rd Ave, Dallesport Washington.
Original Asking Price:$189,500
Closed Price: $198,750 (included buyers closing costs)
Days on the Real Estate Market 7
28 N Frontage Rd, Wamic Lake Front Property! (Pine Hollow Reservoir)
Original Asking Price:510,000
Closed Price: $510,000
Days on the Real Estate Market 53
1701 Oakwood Dr, The Dalles. Oversized building lot with River views
Original Asking Price:$65,000
Closed Price: $60,000
Days on the Real Estate Market 24
A Street, Dallesport. Commercially Zoned Bare Land
Original Asking Price:$105,000
Closed Price: $85,000
Days on the Real Estate Market 1
In The Dalles Real Estate market we have 21 Homes that are Sale Pending, Priced from $99,000 to $389,900! In Dallesport Wa we have 2 homes that are sale pending the highest priced is $259,000.
The information is based on last week from the RMLS statistics. Non-MLS sales are not reflected.
The statistics are provided to help you understand how the market is moving in your neighborhood and what locations and prices are seeing success. To learn more about pricing your home and marketing it correctly in The Dalles Oregon, Please give us a call! Nan and Becky @ Columbia Gorge Real Estate
Contrary to what the national media keeps trying to make us believe the real estate market in The Dalles is healthy! Call us today to see how we can get your home on this list!
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| September 18-21, 2008 | Historic The Dalles Days, The Dalles, Oregon. Events will include tours of historic buildings and museums, a run/walk across The Dalles Dam, a history costume ball, music, food and three days of family entertainment. Be Here Then! |
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Thursday, September 18 |
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Thursday September 18 7:30 PM |
"Old Favorites" Concert with the Cascade Singers |
| 12-4 p.m. | Commodore II Open House Tour the historic building and see the restored 1920's style apartment. Free admission. 12-4 p.m. |
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Chamber offices open 8AM-5PM | Downtown Talking Murals Stop by The Dalles Area Chamber of Commerce offices and pick up a key to the downtown talking murals. $5 per key. |
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Friday, September 19 |
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September 19 10AM - 3PM |
Honoring our Veterans Tribute to Veterans. Visit The Dalles Civic Auditorium where students from The Dalles Wahtonka High School's History Department will be honoring our local Oregon and Washington veterans with a presentation of some of the highlights of American courage enacted during the various wars of the 20th century. Tour the historic Civic Auditorium, which was was dedicated to the brave soldiers of World War I, and visit with our honored veteran guests who have so courageously defended our country. Including POW/MIA recognition by Veterans of Foreign Wars. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. |
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12-9 p.m. | The Mint / Erin Glenn Winery 710 East 2nd St, The Dalles, OR 97058. 541-296-4707 Wine tasting and music. 12-9 p.m. |
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Opens at 3 p.m. | Bolton Cellars www.boltoncellars.com 306 Court Street, The Dalles 541-296-7139 We will be tasting our newly released 2006 Great Southern Pinot Noir wine. Opens at 3 p.m. |
| 12-4 p.m. | Commodore II Open House Tour the historic building and see the restored 1920's style apartment. Free admission. 12-4 p.m. |
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| Chamber offices open 8AM-5PM | Downtown Talking Murals Stop by The Dalles Area Chamber of Commerce offices and pick up a key to the downtown talking murals. $5 per key. |
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Saturday, September 20 |
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| September 20 9 AM - 2 PM |
The Dalles School District Archive Museum Location: East The Dalles Wahtonka campus, entrance at 10th and Court Street, The Dalles. Enjoy looking through Steelhead Annuals from 1911 to present, plus trophies both sport and FFA, uniforms, Booster Girls and Girls League memorabilia and a lot more. If your group would like to schedule a special time for a tour, contact the curator, Rymmel Lovell tlovell@netcnct.net (541) 296-6546 |
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September 20 |
Original Wasco County Courthouse (1859) Speaker John Lundell will be giving a presentation on the history of the three Wasco County Courthouses. DVD presentation, free tours. |
| 11 a.m.-3 p.m. | The Dalles Wasco County Library Old time pioneer games and activities for children on the library deck and in the meeting room. Frontier games and activities, as well as great-grandma's dress-up trunk with clothes from the olden days. Free admission. 1 |
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September 20 |
Port of The Dalles Formal ceremony at 12PM to celebrate the Port's 75th Anniversary, photos, and presentations of the Port history. |
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September 20 6-10 p.m. |
1858 History Costume Ball and Dinner 1858 Costume Ball and dinner. Music of the era by the High Strung String Quartet. Horse-drawn carriage valet parking. $25 per person. Optional candlelight buffet dinner $12, served until 8 p.m. For more information: www.gorgediscovery.org or call 296-8600. |
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September 20 11AM-4PM |
Activities at Fort Dalles and the Anderson Homestead There will be a farm petting zoo in the Anderson barn, the Columbia Fibres Guild will be demonstrating spinning yarn from wool at the Anderson House, and historic re-enactor Steve Plucker will reenact a soldier from the Fort in 1856 on the Fort Dalles grounds during the day. |
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Wagon rides from Ft. Dalles to the Rorick House | |
| 12:00pm -1:00pm | Linda McAlister and Co. will be playing swing music. | |
| 1:00 pm - 2:00pm | Reknown Storyteller, Ed Edmo, will be here to share Native American stories. | |
| 2:00pm | Dufur Valley String Band will be performing on the porch at the Anderson House. | |
| 2:00-3:00PM | "Hardshell Harmony" will play blue grass music. | |
| 3:00 -4:00 pm | Virginia Butler, Archaeologist, will speak on "Relic Hunting, Archaeology & Loss of Native American Heritage at The Dalles." | |
| 4:00 - 5:00pm | The Dalles Wahtonka High School Jazz Band performs under the direction of Paul Viemeister. | |
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September 20 11AM-5PM |
The Dalles Art Center / Carnegie Library (1910) Open House. September 2 - 27, The Dalles Art Center guest art gallery theme is "Fish". It is an open show of all types of media that is themed around fish. We'll have artist demos, old photos for you to view and there will be tours of this historic building. Hours are Tues. - Sat. 11am to 5pm. |
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September 20 11AM-4PM |
Rorick House Rorick House. Quilting display. Horse-drawn wagon rides 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. to Fort Dalles Museum. Free admission. Open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. |
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Sept. 21 1-5 p.m |
Historic Ben Snipes Home (1865) Ben Snipes Home. Enjoy scones and Devonshire tea, tour the Ben Snipes house / ANZAC Tea Parlour. |
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Sunday, September 21 |
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September 21 9 am to finish |
Run/Walk across The Dalles Dam (1957) 10 a.m. start from Seufert Visitor Center. 8K (4.98 miles) out and back across the dam. $5 or $15 with a t-shirt; $3 for under 18 with no t-shirt. Pre-register by Sept. 18 or $10 or $20 w/t-shirt, $5 under 18 with no shirt, day of registration. Register day of race 9 to 9:55 a.m. Information 541-298-1119. |
The Stonehenge Memorial near Maryhill Museum of Art will be the site of ongoing acoustic studies by British researcher Dr. Rupert Till from the University of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. On Saturday, July 5 at 3 p.m. Dr. Till will present an hour-long program about Stonehenge, recent discoveries and his work on the Neolithic Stonehenge in England.
Till and his colleague Dr. Bruno Fazenda are visiting Maryhill in the hopes that they can learn something about how sound was used at Stonehenge. While Till has studied the Neolithic site in England, he has found that the state of the ancient monument makes it much more difficult to do sound studies. He needed a full size model of the site. And that is how Stonehenge Memorial becomes important to Till. "By coming to Maryhill Museum of Art's Stonehenge Memorial," stated Till, "we will have an opportunity to do acoustic studies on an intact monument." Till believes that if he can confirm his theories, it may lead to some of the most revealing discoveries about the nature of the Neolithic site.
"By coming to Maryhill Museum of Art's Stonehenge Memorial," stated Till, "we will have an opportunity to do acoustic studies on an intact monument."
Till and Fazenda are doing work funded by the University of Huddersfield http://www.hud.ac.uk/ and have had discussions with Professor Mike Parker Pearson and his team, http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/research/stonehenge/index.html who are running the Stonehenge Riverside project. Till and Fazenda's work is aimed at feeding their research into the larger research project at Stonehenge. There are plans to use special computer software to model sound as well as images, based on a digital 3-D graphical model of Stonehenge. They will then be able to predict the acoustics of the space with the software, and then compare it with the results of the study at Stonehenge Memorial.
North America's only full-scale replica of Stonehenge, was built by legendary Pacific Northwest road builder Samuel Hill, founder of Maryhill Museum of Art near Goldendale, Washington. The Stonehenge Memorial is located four miles east of Maryhill Museum of Art, which is open March 15 through November 15, just off Washington Scenic Route 14.
"We are delighted to welcome Dr. Till and his colleague Dr. Fazenda to Maryhill to study the Stonehenge Memorial," says Colleen Schafroth, executive director of Maryhill Museum of Art. "The Columbia Gorge plateau is, for many of us, closer than the plains of Salisbury, and this gives us an opportunity to be a part of some of the most exciting archeological discoveries yet to come in Britain!"
Built thousands of years after the original Stonehenge, by Hill as a tribute to the soldiers and sailors of Klickitat County who lost their lives, Maryhill Museum's full-scale Stonehenge was the first monument in our nation to honor the dead of World War I. A Quaker pacifist, Hill was mistakenly informed that the original Stonehenge had been used as a sacrificial site, and thus constructed the replica to remind us that ''humanity is still being sacrificed to the god of war.'' The location now also includes monuments to the soldiers of Klickitat County who died in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.
There is no admission fee to visit Stonehenge Memorial. It is open dawn to dusk each day.
When completely built out, phase one will consist of a 2.3 mile road course with paddock space, timing & scoring tower, turn stations, communication system and restroom/shower facility. Future development phases include an adjacent road course to be used independently or in conjunction with the phase one course, a 1/4 mile drag strip, sprint Kart road course, 3/8 mile oval and a club house facility. Construction for the first phase road race course began this June. On site rock extraction and crushing will take up the first few weeks of the schedule. Excavation will begin shortly thereafter with paving beginning late August or early September. If all goes as planned it should be ready for opening as soon as the weather allows, early spring of 2009.
Nan Wimmers, Principal Broker, CRB, CRS & Becky Schertenleib, Broker, GRI Owners of Columbia Gorge Real Estate Sisters by chance, Partners by choice
If you are contemplating buying or selling real estate in The Dalles, Oregon or Dallesport Washington and would like to have additional information about market, please don't hesitate to call us. Call any time, Becky Schertenleib at 541-993-2565, Nan Wimmers at 541-993-5510. We will listen to your needs and research the market to find what you are looking for, Buying or Selling! We handle the market area of Columbia River Gorge, The Dalles, Dufur, Rowena Oregon and Dallesport, Lyle Washington.
As friends we have learned a lot about lasting relationships, it also helps that we are sisters. We know that relationships built to last takes honesty, integrity, and the ability to share in each others dreams and goals. Thank you for sharing in the dream. "Sisters by chance, Partners by Choice" Becky became an Oregon Real Estate Broker in The Dalles, September 2004 and Washington salesperson in August of 2005. She completed the series of Graduate Real Estate Institute "GRI" classes in December of 2005 and received that designation. Also in 2005 she received the Windermere Glenn Taylor Real Estate award for attending the most advanced educational classes company wide and is currently working on her CRS (Credited Residential Specialist) designation. Nan became an Oregon Real Estate Salesperson in April 1994 and a Oregon Principal Broker in 1999. She is a Certified Residential Specialist "CRS" The Certified Residential Specialist is the highest Designation awarded to sales associates in the residential sales field which recognizes professional accomplishments in both experience and education. Nan also holds the "CRB" Designation. The Certified Real Estate Brokerage Manager Designation is one of the oldest and most respected in the industry. It exemplifies the highest level of professional achievement and recognition in real estate brokerage management. For the past 10 years she worked for Windermere as the V.P. and Director of Operations and moved to The Dalles area spring of 2008. It is our belief that a Realtor that has the dedication to pursue advanced education is better equipped to provide knowledge and advice to clients.
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We are a small family owned and operated real estate company and because of that we are proud to provide our clients with unsurpassed personal real estate service in The Dalles, Dallesport, Dufur, Rowena and surrounding Columbia Gorge communities. We believe each client and each property in The Dalles is unique and we strive to meet the needs of every client buying or selling real estate in The Dalles Area.
One of our most important roles is to listen to you, assess your needs, and respond with solutions that best achieve your real estate goals. Modern technology coupled with the best real estate market data and old-fashioned hard work enable us to provide you with a superior level of service which we hope will exceed your expectations! Our knowledge of The Dalles, Dallesport and surrounding Columbia River community spans a life time as we are born and raised in the Columbia River Gorge area.
We are committed to integrating the best available technology into our business to make your real estate transactions efficient and convenient. You can count on Becky Schertenleib and Nan Wimmers owners of Columbia Gorge Real Estate to work for your best interests when selling or buying real estate in The Dalles or Dallesport, always maintaining the highest level of professionalism and integrity.
We are dedicated to The Dalles area homes and historic neighborhoods and to helping you find a home in The Dalles Oregon or Dallesport Washington where you can live happily. We sell properties all over Wasco and Sherman counties in Oregon and Klickitat county Washington and the cities within those counties such as, The Dalles, Goldendale, Dallesport, Dufur, Rowena, Mosier, Dallesport Lyle, Moro, Wasco, Biggs, and Maryhill.
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