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As Higher Mortgage Rates Price Out Buyers, an Affordability Crisis Widens

Pro Builder

Even as inventory levels rise across the U.S., Even though inventory is improving in these areas, middle- and lower-income buyers can afford to buy fewer homes. For example, housing inventory has significantly improved in the Portland, OR metro area (an 83% increase) since January. Mortgage rates are roughly 2.5%

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The Best Weeks for Homebuying are Here

Pro Builder

But in some higher density, larger markets, such as New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Minneapolis, Denver, and Portland, Ore., Economists are expecting to see a similar rise in inventory hitting the market during that week this year. the best week to buy is now through Sept. 18, says Realtor.com.

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How Low Will Home Prices Go?

Pro Builder

In the wake of a housing reset, experts adjusted their forecasts to follow a slower growth pattern throughout the remainder of 2022, but as prices reach unsustainable highs and inventory falls to a historic low, Goldman Sachs economists are now calling for “home price growth to stall completely” in 2023, the CalculatedRisk Newsletter reports.

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Why and how to employ air curtains at industrial doorways

Construction Specifier

For example, brick-and-mortar retail stores decentralized their inventories by switching from warehousing to a more diversified approach for in-store storage. Shipping an online order to an Oregon resident is both cheaper and faster from a Portland store than it is from a warehouse in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Writing the book on smarter warehouse design and construction

The Korte Company

They protect inventory and, when designed and constructed correctly, improve on the efficiency with which inventory is received, sorted, retrieved and shipped.”. Those precise conditions were necessary to preserve the quality of the $1 billion or so of inventory inside the facility. The result? Speed to market secured.

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Understanding the different types of warehouses you can build

The Korte Company

Responsible for sourcing Hershey chocolate to Midwest retailers, there’s usually $1 billion of inventory inside at any time. One of our showcase USPS jobs just wrapped up in Portland, OR. The importance that this building perform as designed cannot be overstated. It also includes backup HVAC systems in case of a power outage.

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Service and Field Managers: Collaborate 2018 is For You!

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Multiple work crews and large inventories, checklists and project logs, constantly shifting dispatch schedules, hundreds of work orders, warranty agreements and repair histories to track — if these sound familiar, you might be a service technician or field manager! 15-18 in Portland, OR).