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Neighborhood Trends is an online tracking service offered exclusively by Windermere to provide you with a close-up look at what's happening in some of the Northwest's real estate markets. You can select a market area (e.g., Portland metro or by ZIP code) and compare trends such as price, market time, etc. for the current period and compare it to a period the previous year.
This site will give you a good indication to what is happening in the Portland area home market.
You will find a wealth of information about housing and mortgages at this site. Freddie Mac was created by Congress in 1970 to stabilize the nation's mortgage markets and expand opportunities for homeownership and affordable rental housing. Freddie Mac is a shareholder-owned corporation created by the government with two basic missions:
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Ensure that there is a continuous flow of funds to mortgage lenders. As a secondary market for mortgage loans, Freddie Mac purchases mortgages from lenders across the country and packages them into securities that can be sold to investors. Through this securitization process, they ultimately provide low- to middle-income homeowners and renters with lower housing costs and better access to home financing.
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Freddie Mac also invests directly in mortgages.
The Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 mandates that OFHEO publish a House Price Index (HPI) - a measure designed to capture changes in the value of single-family homes in the U.S. as a whole, in various regions of the country, and in the individual states and the District of Columbia. You can view the HPI by the state of Oregon and by the MSA (Portland metro area).
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