Local Real Estate Professional Discusses the Investment Market

EUGENE, ORE. — March 29, 2010 — René Nelson, CCIM, principal broker with PacWest Commercial Real Estate, was quoted in the March/April issue of Commercial Investment Real Estate, the magazine of the CCIM Institute. Please read her comments in “A Tale of Two Markets,”...

Glimpsing into Our Local Real Estate Crystal Ball

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced last week that he will attempt to hold interest rates low in an effort to help the housing market rebound. There is a growing concern that as the first time home buyer tax incentive ends in April, 2010 that residential...

Smart Investment Strategies for the Recession

Many investors ask us our opinion of the market, when do we feel we will be out of the recession, and what is the right kind of property to buy right now. First off, if we could predict when we will be out of this recession then we would be sitting on a beach on our...

Economic Background and Investment Environment

With the second consecutive quarter of positive economic growth now apparent, it is likely that the recession will be declared technically over. Although we aren’t out of the woods yet, we are one step closer to recovery. However, it will take much more time for the...