At last, the large influx of millennials into the housing market has arrived. Unfortunately, the housing market isn't ready for them. As with the cost of education and post-recession job prospects, the nation's largest age cohort find themselves yet again thwarted by ill timing. Housing inventories are at historic lows, and prices are at their highest levels since before the ... Read more

Finding housing can be harder than finding a job in some parts of Eastern Oregon, but there are people working to solve that problem. On Oct. 17, BC Contracting and PROffutt Limited Partnership broke ground on a new 240-unit apartment complex in Boardman. City Manager Karen Pettigrew said Boardman and the companies located there have been working hard to find ways to bring ... Read more

Typical property tax bills in Lake Oswego will jump by 10 percent or more for 2017-18, thanks to increasing home values and new money measures approved by voters for Clackamas County's emergency radio system and for a variety of projects in the Lake Oswego School District. Tax statements are scheduled to be mailed to the county's 174,654 real and personal property owners on ... Read more

Salem residents will see higher property taxes this year as the bill for a $61.8 million police facility starts to come due. However, property owners in Polk County, excluding West Salem, will on average see their property taxes fall after they finished paying off a $20 million road bond. In addition to bonds, property values generally rise annually, which also contributes to ... Read more

If Northern California's famous wineries could survive Prohibition, there's no doubt they'll make it through this year's wildfires. That's the attitude of Michael Honig, chairman of the Napa Valley Vintners trade association, who told New England Cable News this week that the 14 wineries damaged or destroyed by the ongoing blazes would not only rebuild, but come back stronger. ... Read more