Portland’s New Homes on Tour

April 20th, 2007

If you’re in the touring mood over the next couple weekends, you’ll have the opportunity to see over 75 new homes throughout the Portland metro area at the Ultimate Open House, sponsored by The Oregonian and the Portland Homebuilders Association.

The HBA and the Oregonian also sponsor the summertime Street of Dreams, but this tour sprawls across the metro area instead of just one development site.

Scheduled for April 20-22 and April 27-29, the home tour includes open houses for 77 condos, townhomes, and custom homes built by the area’s leading local builders including Beacon Homes, Buena Vista, Arbor, Legend, Renaissance, JC Reeves, Morrissette, Taurus, and Wilshire. A couple national production builders, Centex and D.R. Horton are also featured.

Frankly, I think it is a better opportunity to see some of the smaller custom builders (like Intex and J.T. Roth), since the larger companies have open models every weekend at their sales sites.

The tour predominantly features the west side (Beaverton, Tualatin, Tigard, Hillsboro, Sherwood), but there are some east side sites in Happy Valley, Clackamas, and Beavercreek.

You can get more information at the tour’s website, or grab a guidebook from local Fred Meyer locations. The website has a link to an interactive map, but alas, it takes you to the virtually unusable OregonLive site to plot your tour stops. The tour planner is a little clunky, but it does provide stop-by-stop directions.

By the way, the price is right….it’s FREE.

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