Hood River Real Estate Update

Here's the combined sales for the entire Columbia Gorge Region: Hood River & Wasco Counties in Oregon Klickitat & Skamania Counties in Washington.  These are the cities and towns reporting sales from west to east. These sales are only LISTED sales not FSBO's or unlisted sales.

• Skamania- 1 sale
• North Bonneville- 1 sale
• Cascade Locks- 3 sales
• White Salmon-2 sales
• Husum- 1 sale 
• Hood River- 10 sales
• Hood River/eastside -1 sale
• Odell-1 sale
• Parkdale-2 sales
• Lyle-3 sales 
• Klickitat-1 sale
• Dallesport/Murdock-2 sales  
• The Dalles-12 sales
• Wamic- 2 sales
• Goldendale-5 sales

This gives us a total of 47 homes sold Gorge wide in the month of August 2008.  There are currently 83 homes sale pending throughout the 4 gorge counties.  Wasco County-24   Hood River County-27       Klickitat County-23  Skamania County-9    

There are also 27 unimproved lots/land sale pendings throughout the 4 gorge counties. Wasco County- 3  Hood River County- 4  Klickitat County- 15  Skamania County-5

Here's a further comparison of each counties residential sales for Jan- Aug 2008

 Gorge County                            Monthly sales totals

Skamania    Jan-6    Feb-7    March-3    April-4    May-4    June-0   July-3   Aug-2    

Klickitat       Jan-10   Feb-5   March-16  April-12  May-10  June-9  July-14   Aug-15                           

Hood River  Jan-10   Feb-12  March-12   April-15   May-27   June-13  July-19   Aug-17 

Wasco          Jan-10   Feb-14  March-14   April-16    May-23   June-18   July-17  Aug-14

From this data it appears that Klickitat, Hood River, and Wasco Counties have been remaining near the same sales volume fairly consistently so far this year. Skamania County has the lowest sales overall. Now is a great time to buy your piece of The Gorge.  I hope you find this information helpful.  

Here's how 2008 sales are looking compared to 2007 sales:

 2008 Gorge total sales    Jan-36    Feb-38    March-43     April-47     May-64    June-40   July-53   Aug-48

 2007 Gorge total sales    Jan-40    Feb-48    March-82     April-72     May-73    June-85   July-95   Aug-72

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