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Buying a Home in Portland

Seven Steps To Purchasing Your New Portland Home

Step 1: Meet with us. Tell us what is important to you.

Help us understand your needs and values by completing our Portland Home Buyers' Questionnaire .

Identify your expectations, preferences, and special circumstances

Step 2: Decide how you want to go about finding your next Portland home.

Understand agency law in Oregon

Execute a Buyer Representation Agreement

Step 3: Get your finances in order.

Get pre-qualified, or better, pre-approved for your choice of loan

Click here for our list of Recommended Lenders

Step 4: Find the right home. We will show you any available home.

Complete, thorough, and efficient search

Receive notice of homes matching your criteria, as soon as they come on the market!

Networking to find unpublicized homes

Special circumstances
- Listing agent of prospective home
- New subdivisions with “First Contact” clauses
- Unrepresented sellers (FSBO) and other non-RMLS homes
- Short sales and bank owned homes

Step 5: Negotiate the purchase agreement.

Negotiation strategies

Key terms and conditions

Offer, Seller’s Counter-Offer, Buyer’s Counter-Offer

Step 6: Work through the closing process.

Escrow & title process

Inspections and verifications
- General whole house inspection
- Special inspections (e.g., sewer lines, radon, asbestos, etc)
- Seller's property disclosures
- Repair negotiations, completion and inspection