Keizer, OR

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Keizer Oregon, for its small size, has some really nice elegant homes and neighborhoods. If you like elegant neighborhoods then these are ones to consider in your home buying search.

Lake Front Living

Inland Shores Homes in Keizer Oregon-For home buyers wanting access to a private lake and an upscale neighborhood, Inland Shores is the neighborhood for you.

Golf Club Communities

McNary Estates Homes in Keizer Oregon-If you want to be able to drive your golf cart down the street, then McNary Estates is where you want to be.

Established Neighborhoods

Cedar Real Estate in Keizer Oregon -Cedar is a small subdivision on the northwest part of Keizer with some elegant homes. There is only one loop in this subdivision.

The Meadows Homes in Keizer Oregon- The Meadows is an areas of upscale homes close to the Clear Lake neighborhood.

Each neighborhood has its own set of characteristics that make it unique and give each neighborhood a different feel.

The Keizer Oregon real estate market has been one of the most stable markets in the Salem metro area for most of the year. While it has had it’s woes, really that market seems to have corrected for the most part.

Keizer Oregon real estate inventory

Inventory, which is an important statistic in the world of real estate, is a gauge of the supply and demand in an individual market. The more in line these are, the healthier that real estate market. You can see that the huge spike in inventory at the start of the year has steadily dropped and has hovered in the neutral market range for the past 3 months. I can’t honestly call a stable market or bottom until after the tax credit ends. I think that we need to see what the market can do on it’s own before calling a bottom, but it does appear to be stabilizing for now.

Read about Keizer's home sales volume and median home prices in October.

The foreclosure boom has done more than weeded out the agent pool. It is also creating a real blank spot in the histories of a large number of homes. With out the disclosures of the previous owners there are fewer and fewer explanations for issues that might have been easily remedied

I was doing a home inspectionon one of these bank owned homes in Keizer, Oregon the other day and came upon a little oddity that I just couldn't help but speculate over. As the drawers in the cabinet were pulled the drawer slides (not just any slides by the way, these were high quality full extension slides) would bang into the doors after about ½ inch worth of travel. Every single drawer was installed with this same issue. This little "oops" rendered the pull out shelves utterly useless.

The section of "custom cabinetry," work had me envisioning a the home owner, (most likely a contractor or builder as well) behind on his bills and sweating away as he installed upgrades here and there in hopes to quickly attract a buyer before things went south.

Of course it was too late, and at that point and the market around him was crumbling as he tirelessly tried to bail water from his sinking ship.

His loss, my clients gain. My client knew his way around a tool belt and looked forward to the finishing touches he could put on this home that had some very nice features. And at the price he was paying it will be a very nice home for his family very soon.

Okay, St. Paddy's day has passed, but I needed a catchy title to get you to look at my cool pictures.

Salem Oregon is surrounded by many small towns that have annual community festivals. Last month, it was the Tulip festival in the Woodburn area, and this month is the Iris Festival in Keizer. The entire month of May is dedicated to the Iris.

Schreiner's Gardens has the Iris gardens, as well as many other flowers. I was up there last week just tooling around with my camera and thought I would share what you can see. You can purchase most of the different types of Iris at the store, but a few are new hybrids that are too new for bulbs.

Brightly colored benches adorn the gardens, making a picnic an easy choice while looking at the many flowers. There is also one bench that is just right, in case you get beary tired from walking around.