If you have any interest in green building concepts and love touring homes as much as I do then Don’t Miss The 2010 Build it Green Home Tour!  I look forward to this event all year long, so much that this will be my fourth year participating.  

If you think you’d enjoy this tour even more if you could attend with others passionate or curious about green building, feel free to join GreenPDX in a large group caravan by clicking here:  http://www.meetup.com/greenpdx/

Otherwise, get your tix online here, grab a friend and head out to be a sponge.  $15 adults; $10 car-free/students/honored citizens; FREE for children under 14

 

You might recognize Holst Architecture’s style when you think of the Clinton Condominiums, the Thurman Street Lofts, or the new Sunrose Condos on E. Burnside.  The Meranti Lofts by the same firm are equally cool in that simple, industrial modern, yet warm, kind of way.  There are currently two residential units in this small condo building that are available at ridiculously low prices. 

For a starting price of only $179,000 you can have a sleek corner unit w/ 2 bedrooms, 1 baths and 1,139 square feet.  Or, for $239,000 there’s a 2-level, 3 bedroom, 2 bath in 1,283 square feet.  

Both have concrete radiant heat floors, stainless steel counter tops, white walls, and a spread of windows with awesome southern exposure.  Walk or bike to all the yummy Division Street offerings, or step out your door to public transit. 

These are available on auction – please call Amber for details:  503-804-1261

Love modern asymmetry and appreciate anything that can save you up to 90% on your heating and cooling costs?  The Corehaus is the only home designed to the ultra efficient Passive House Standard that is currently for sale in Portland!  This ultra cool home lets you live with a small footprint, plenty of light, and central to everything we love about the east side.  Architect Robert Hawthorne and builder Bart Bergquist put hundreds of hours of perfectionist thought, study, and sweat into this one-of-a-kind home.

The members of GreenPDX were given a private tour of this house a few weeks ago to learn more about the Passive House standard requirements and what it took Rob and Bart to achieve such efficiency for the Corehaus. (See the full scoop on house details and photos from the tour here.)  Or to learn more about the Passive House movement in Portland, see my blog post here.

This super insulated home is offered at only $330,000, so please call me for a showing today:  Amber Turner 503-804-1261

This one is a recipe for success – cute through and through, but with green tricks up its sleeve to boot.  First, you have soothing plaster walls, a cleanly updated kitchen, a charming, covered wrap around porch overlooking garden beds, and then you couple it  with lovely green features and you have yourself one a dandy gem.  Radiant heat, new wood windows, reclaimed materials throughout, paperstone counters, marmoleum floors, and system upgrades.  This 3 bedroom, 2 bath home is listed with Karim Alaeddine of ReMax.

Call me for a showing before this one is gone, baby, gone.  Amber Turner 503-804-1261

832 N. Emerson Street | 2,068 sf | ML# 10063243

I believe the Williams FIVE project is currently the best value in Portland!  Edgy and unique, cutting edge and green, this project really does define Modern Living.  Check out  http://www.williamsfivecondos.com/ for more details, then for a private tour to see all the goodies in person give me a call.  At the price of $249k (!) this really is a rare opportunity to own a unit in one of the city’s best examples of urban design and architecture.