Eastern Oregon home buyers can travel only a few miles and encounter surprisingly different housing markets. Hermiston, Umatilla and Stanfield are excellent examples. These three Umatilla County communities are closely connected geographically, yet each provides its own mix of housing inventory, price points, transportation access, recreation and community amenities.

Umatilla County is much more than one housing market.

Travel east from Pendleton toward the foothills of the Blue Mountains and the Oregon-Washington border, and the character of the housing inventory changes considerably. Pendleton, Milton-Freewater and Athena provide a useful three-city comparison for buyers who want to understand …

Eastern Oregon covers an enormous geographic area, and housing markets that might appear similar on a statewide map can be very different when you begin looking at individual properties.

La Grande, Baker City and Enterprise illustrate that difference exceptionally well.

All three provide access to the mountains …

If you are searching for a home along the Columbia River and Interstate 84 corridor in northeastern Oregon, Hermiston, Boardman and Umatilla deserve to be compared together.

The three communities are close enough that buyers can realistically investigate properties across all three markets, but their housing inventories and …

Buying a Home in Oregon

Blog test number one. Any major purchase requires research, careful analysis, consideration and thought. Home buying isn't any different! Determining the right location, the number of bedrooms or bathrooms needed, and outdoor space is the easier things. However, there are many other factors to …