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As a Matter of Fact, Raisins Are Protected By the Fifth Amendment

Jun 26, 2015

Land Use, From the Ground Up

Earlier this year we wrote about the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals case of Horne v. Department of Agriculture (here). In that case, the court of appeals ruled that a Department of Agriculture marketing order that required raisin farmers to divert a...

Housing Crisis in Central Oregon—What a Difference Five Years Makes

Jun 02, 2015

Real Estate, From the Ground Up

Central Oregon's residential property values rose faster in the mid-2000s' housing bubble and fell harder in the 2008 crash than those in other Oregon areas. Bend, especially, has been a boom-and-bust kind of town since at least the late 1970s. The b...

Neighbor Loses Right to Use Driveway: Part II

May 21, 2015

By LeAnne M. Bremer

Real Estate, From the Ground Up

Last year, we wrote about the Gamboa v. Clark case, in which Division III of the Washington State Court of Appeals set a high bar for proving the existence of prescriptive easements. A prescriptive easement arises when one openly and adversely uses t...

Narrowing the Scope of Subcontractor Indemnity

Apr 14, 2015

Construction, From the Ground Up

Owners, developers, and general contractors, beware: the protection afforded by a subcontractor's responsibility to pay for lawsuits arising from its work (what is known as "indemnity") might not be as broad as originally thought. A recent Oregon Cou...

Back in the Bubble?

Mar 09, 2015

Real Estate, From the Ground Up

It has been close for a few months, but Seattle house prices and full-on seller's market are now confirmed in this report from the Puget Sound Business Journal. Prices are now all the way back to the 2006 peak with no indication of slowing down. In t...

Millennial Myth-Busting

Feb 25, 2015

Housing, Real Estate, From the Ground Up

After years of media speculation and pundits declaring that the millennial generation is so very different and may never own a car or a house, changing all business and real estate markets, Globe.st.com shares some actual research data showing that t...