Lincoln City, OR

Today I bring to you a photo of a sunny winter day in Lincoln City, Oregon. Lincoln County has become a popular place to search for an affordable beach home on the stunningly beautiful Pacific Coastline. This stretch of road goes through the popular "Oceanlake" district of Lincoln City. Oceanlake is popular with tourists and full time residents alike for the wonderful shopping, restaurants and lively nightlife with clubs like Nauti Mermaid hosting live bands almost every weekend, Maxwells with nitely Karaoke (for those of you who like that kind of torture!) and Chinook Winds Casino at the north end of town.

Turn right off of this street, Hwy 101, and you will find yourself on an ocean view hilltop. Continue driving up and over the hill and you will reach Devils Lake, filled with watercraft and rimmed with lovely lake view homes.

Turn left, and you will be headed toward the ocean past many attractive beach bungalows, some with views, some with very close beach access.

Prices range from around $125,000 for an older modest home which needs work to around $299,000 for a 3 - 4 bedroom updated ocean view home with granite counters and a nice yard. Spend just under $600,000 and get a lake or ocean view, possibly even oceanfront home with around 3500, 4000 sq. ft of living space and all of the finest amenities.

Cash sales of ocean view homes from liquidated stock portfolios have been seen in the Lincoln County area with increasing numbers as we head into 2012. Business has been picking up during this typically slow time of year for real estate sales on the Oregon Coast.

My own desk has never been busier! Please call me at 541-270-6758 for more information or to arrange a tour regarding the Lincoln County area features and coastal properties.

OK, you have read about Devil’s Lake in my blog before, as my family used to own a cabin on the lake for many, many years, but did you know that the lake is connected to the world’s shortest river? Yep, the river goes a whopping 120 feet from the lake to the Pacific Ocean.

The D River is the world’s shortest according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Now, I have to say after water skiing and fishing on the lake all those years and seeing the outlet to the river, I didn’t know until I read a sign on Hwy 101 the other day. Oh, the things you learn when you pay attention to your surroundings.

Todd Clark and the Friendly Home Team
Capstone Real Estate
Todd@IFoundYourNewHome.com
Phone: (503)524-9494
Fax: (503)622-8739

Todd Clark is a licensed Realtor who specializing in Washington County, Oregon and also works both Clackamas and Multnomah Counties including the cities of Aloha, Beaverton, Canby, Clackamas, Gladstone, Gresham, Happy Valley, Hillsboro, Milwaukie, Oregon City, Sherwood and Tigard.
All information contained in these posts is copyrighted and cannot be used without prior written approval authorization from the author. If you are looking for an outstanding agent please give Todd Clark a call he would love to help you in all your real estate needs.

How do you as smaller city in Oregon get some 250 people visitors to your city and teach them about the history at the same time? You set up a Geocache mystery adventure and people from all around come, that’s how!

Well, The Lincoln City Parks and Recreation department did that and they apparently do it twice a year and since we are fairly new to Geocaching, we got involved in this one, met some great people from all walks of life and even got to watch what I call a feeding frenzy at the beach.

During this 3 hour adventure, we got to go visit the boardwalk, the library and even a local garden to look for the clues and learn about the history of Lincoln City. I’ve been going to Lincoln City my whole life because we had a cabin on Devils Lake in Lincoln City and even I was going to places that I had never been and learned so much about this wonderful community.

I can’t wait to go back and take what I have learned and write a complete post about all the local attractions that make Lincoln City so great and rich with history.

This place was a awesome place for any photographer!

Todd Clark and the Friendly Home Team
Capstone Real Estate
Todd@IFoundYourNewHome.com
Phone: (503)524-9494
Fax: (503)622-8739

Todd Clark is a licensed Realtor who specializing in Washington County, Oregon and also works both Clackamas and Multnomah Counties including the cities of Aloha, Beaverton, Canby, Clackamas, Gladstone, Gresham, Happy Valley, Hillsboro, Milwaukie, Oregon City, Sherwood and Tigard.
All information contained in these posts is copyrighted and cannot be used without prior written approval authorization from the author. If you are looking for an outstanding agent please give Todd Clark a call he would love to help you in all your real estate needs.

Everyone has their holiday traditions. My family and I celebrate Christmas and so our traditions revolve around that holiday. Our family tradition for this holiday actually starts in the summer. I know, kind of weird folks that we are, but here's why.

The Christmas Cottage.

In Lincoln City on the south end of town, is this small little store called the Christmas Cottage. My husband and I discovered it several years ago before we had children. We started a tradition that whenever we went to Lincoln City or Newport over the summer, we would stop into the store and each pick out one new ornament for our Christmas tree that year. When we were first married we had no ornaments but we have slowly over time amassed some really beautiful ones from this store.

A couple of years ago we felt our kids were old enough to start choosing ornaments as well, so now we make sure we take a trip to Lincoln city every summer and our last stop is this store. What I appreciate as a parent is that many of the ornaments are inexpensive, which was nice when the kids were small and tended to break their ornaments. This year my son picked a stunning glass dragon as his choice, and I felt confident that he could handle it without breaking it. Every year they have different ornaments which is good and bad. Our rule is just one ornament each and sometimes I have wanted to come back and get another of what I loved the previous year only to see a different artist in its place. These photos are just a sample of some of the ornaments we have gotten at the store over the years.

From whimsical to beautiful, I guarantee this small little store on the Oregon coast will have an ornament that you'd love to have on your tree. Next time you head to the coast, head over to this little gem of a store. There is also an ice cream and chocolate store in the strip. It doesn't get much better than that.

This was originally posted on The Real Estate Jumble..

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