However Real Estate Roundtable survey respondents do say that this year could be volatile due to the US presidential election.

Developers with longer time horizons can achieve excellent results.

While municipalities are passing sustainable building initiatives, some of their codes are counterproductive.

Use of the popular baseball analogy 'what inning are we in?' to gauge how much time is left in the real estate cycle is heard less frequently as the Portland market just keeps going, says Cushman & Wakefield's Jim Lewis.