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Clients and Friends, Bella Casa Real Estate Group began in McMinnville in March of 2007, 4 months before the market began to crash. Because of all the turmoil, fear, anxiety, and turmoil I began to send this report monthly to our clients and those who wanted more information. I annotated the reports and added my […]

  You’re invited! Destiny Rescue invites you to join in our mission to end child sex trafficking by joining us at our 2nd annual Taste for Freedom. Bella Casa Real Estate is a proud sponsor of this year’s event. Guests will experience delicious cuisine, live music, a unique live and silent auction and the chance […]

We invite you to attend the Annual Realtor® Auction next Wednesday, October 24th, hosted and organized by the Yamhill County Association of Realtors®. This year the auction proceeds will go to Henderson House, St. Barnabas Soup Kitchen, and Newberg FISH Emergency Services. Bella Casa Real Estate is happy to be sponsoring the Wall of Wine […]

Your expectation of a listing agent is to get your property sold within your time constraints and for the most money possible in the current market. While we can’t manufacture buyers, what we can do is to increase the odds of grabbing more buyers’ eyes, achieving more showings, and hopefully receiving more and better offers. We […]

While you’d like to get the best price for your home, consider our six reasons to reduce your home price. These six signs may be telling you it’s time to lower your price. 1. You’re drawing few lookers You get the most interest in your home right after you put it on the market because […]

Our philosophy of business is to give you access to the most reliable information, the best guidance for your due-diligence, to watch over every aspect of the home search and transaction, & to apply our negotiation skills for your best interest. Bella Casa Real Estate Group is growing, has established an exceptional reputation. We are […]

In the ‘good ol’ days’ people may have initiated the sale with a handshake, but history shows that those friendly intentions often ended in bitter court disputes. For as long as real estate has been bought and sold in Oregon, there have been real estate lawsuits. Well over a hundred years of real estate agency […]

Clients and Friends, Prices continue to climb even while we wrestle to understand the changing market conditions. Overall, in the Portland Metro Area (including Yamhill County), average and median prices are high and climbing- each at 10.7% comparing the last 12 months with the 12 months previous to that period. Prices have been rising since […]

Clients and Friends, It happens at least one month every year… the workload becomes so intense that it takes me two months to find time to put out the Market Action Report. That is not necessarily bad news! It is a good problem to have (compared to the famine years) but it is still a problem… […]

Clients and Friends, I have now been annotating these reports and sending them out with additional custom information for 10 years! In 2007 we charted the escalation of the marketplace and we all wondered how young people were ever going to afford their first home! For the next 7 years we bemoaned a crashing and […]