Top 5: PDX home prices dip below $240,000 for first time in 4 years (The Oregonian)

FRONT PORCH BLOG: Also in Tuesday’s Top 5 real estate stories: Portland outgains Seattle 4 to 1 in new U.S. migrants / After halting construction for a year, Key Bank lets work begin again on Beaverton project / Home builders’ confidence drops in December / Suits and liens

Top 5: OHSU backs off plan to build South Waterfront parking garage (The Oregonian)

FRONT PORCH BLOG: Also in Friday’s Top 5 real estate stories: Seattle-home sales jump in November / The small house movement: Do you really need 5,000 SF? / 40% of option ARM borrowers 60 days late or more / Realtors be careful after Aloha robbery

Top 5: Portland posts fourth-biggest Septebmer decline in Case-Shiller index (The Oregonian)

FRONT PORCH BLOG: Also in Tuesday’s Top 5 real estate stories: Beardsley’s company files bankruptcy to save Jazz de Opus building from foreclosure / 15% of Portland-area home owners underwater in September / Negative equity bigger predictor of loan default than unemployment / From bad to worse for hoteliers