Portland · both sides of the river
Neighborhoods, as an agent tells them.
Guides written by Lauren, joined to real Zillow and Redfin numbers. Where families land, where first homes hide, and what each street actually feels like.
Alberta & Concordia
Alberta is one of the creative pockets of Portland, and it wears that openly. Murals, small storefronts run by the people who own…
Beaumont-Wilshire
Beaumont-Wilshire is the part of northeast Portland people picture when they say they want an old Portland house on a quiet…
Buckman
Buckman was Portland's first eastside neighborhood, running from the river out to about 28th, bounded by Burnside and Hawthorne…
Cully
Cully is one of the larger and more mixed neighborhoods in northeast Portland, and one of the few close-in areas where you still…
Irvington
Irvington is the largest National Register historic district in Oregon, and it does not have to try very hard to prove it. Broad…
Mt. Tabor
Mount Tabor is an extinct volcano with a neighborhood on it, and once you have stood at the top on a clear evening you understand…
Parkrose Heights
Parkrose Heights is one of those neighborhoods most people drive past without ever really looking at, and I think that is a…
Sellwood & Westmoreland
Sellwood has a quiet charm that is hard to fake. It sits at the south end of the city with the river on one side and Westmoreland…
St. Johns
St. Johns has always felt like its own small town to me, and that is exactly what people mean when they call it a river town. You…
Northwest
The Northwest District is central Portland at its densest and most walkable, close in on the west side with the hills rising…
Troutdale
Troutdale sits at the east end of the metro where the Sandy River meets the Columbia and the Gorge begins. It is the last town…
Vancouver WA
Vancouver is across the river and across a state line, and that second part is what most of my Portland clients are actually…