Portland’s inclusionary housing rules exempt buildings with fewer than 20 units. For larger buildings, developers must provide a proportional amount of apartments at rents affordable to people who earn less than either 60 percent or 80 percent of the Portland area’s median income, or pay a fee in lieu.
The apartment asset class is having a numbers problem with deals and development getting harder to pencil in. Still, the... View Article
By: Clifford A. Hockley, President Bluestone and Hockley Real Estate Services, Executive Director, SVN | Bluestone and Hockley Most residential... View Article
Apartment developers took out fewer building permits in September, stymied by rising interest rates and construction costs. Apartment building... View Article
Portland has added some 15,000 new apartments since 2015, but most are designed for luxury. PORTLAND, Ore. — It’s good news... View Article
The SVN | Bluestone & Hockley corporate office at 9320 SW Barbur Blvd. Suite 300, Portland, Oregon will conduct a... View Article
The quest for short-term lodging is taking the hospitality market in unlikely places – even floating atop the Columbia River.... View Article
Metro believes four suburban Portland cities should be granted urban growth boundary expansions. The regional planning agency’s chief operating officer,... View Article
The Oregon Court of Appeals recently recognized that local jurisdictions cannot use local code to circumvent constitutional protections against the taking... View Article
New construction has sent a flood of new apartments onto the market. A month’s free rent has become standard. Renters... View Article
Challenges of mixing old and new A project proposal for the Historic Alphabet District calls for an update to the... View Article
Continuing good economic news this month- close to 29 thousand new jobs created in the last 12 months in the... View Article
Owners of unreinforced masonry buildings may be required to place placards on their properties warning tenants and visitors of seismic risk after... View Article
Luxury condos, once regarded by developers as a dead end, are making a comeback. The latest example: the ambitious proposal... View Article
The City of Roses has jumped to yet another Top 10 list of U.S. cities — this year, for investment... View Article
Portland’s apartment-building binge appears to be headed off a cliff. Applications for new housing developments have nearly ground to a... View Article