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

Midday biz update: Markets mixed as signs of economic strength appear (The Oregonian)

Also: electric cars — and chargers — coming to the Northwest, and roundups of Oregon real estate and technology news.

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

Portland developer sued over Alaska airline hangar (The Oregonian)

John Beardley, CEO of SeaPort Airlines, had gotten behind on payments for the Juneau hangar

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