Joshua Hansen - Living in Vancouver WA

08/04/2026

Vancouver WA and Portland-area friends, if you’re thinking of buying or selling a home this year, I need to give you a heads up on mortgage rates.��They may be ready to shoot up before coming down for a while. A temporary rise by 2% or so would be unsurprising.

There’s a short video on my YouTube channel - as well as a longer video on what rates may do over the next few decades. See the links in my first comments below.



Joshua Hansen�WA licensed real estate agent�Keller Williams Premier Partners�Vancouver, WA
All offices are independently owned and operated.��I serve in Vancouver and SW WA only but provide introductions to top Portland agents.

08/04/2026

Beetlejuice brings culture to NW Vancouver, WA by presiding over our meals . . . because my parents kept him after I thought I’d outgrown him!��

08/02/2026

What’s happening in the Vancouver, WA housing market—and what could come next?

In the first issue of our newsletter, we look at whether buyers may be better off acting now or waiting, along with the strategies that have been working for both buyers and sellers.

And near the end, there’s a lighter update on what Mary and I have been up to—including a few encounters with our animal friends.

Read it through the Newsletter link in my bio.



Joshua Hansen & Mary Wasnock
WA real estate agents
Keller Williams Premier Partners
Vancouver, WA
All offices are independently owned and operated.

07/29/2026

The Vancouver, WA housing market remains weak. In this issue I cover:

• Why may buyers may benefit from waiting.

• Why sellers should consider pricing below competing homes—rather than chasing the market through repeated price reductions—an approach has led to multiple offers or bidding wars.

• How a buyer can save more than three times as much money just by going for an interest-rate buydown rather than simply paying a lower price for the home.

• Why the best photographers often take horrible listing photos, and how you can ensure they take great ones for you.

• The affordability issue: what today’s home prices and mortgage payments look like relative to incomes.

Then we get to the fun stuff: A parade, our falcon friend, 23,000 Portland crows, California ground squirrels, Paxton Gate, the Kiggins Theatre, and my new favorite house in Vancouver, with rooftop birdhouses.

Read the newsletter here, and feel free to share it with anyone interested in Vancouver, local real estate, unusual animals, or all three:

https://movetovancouverwa.substack.com/p/vancouver-wa-real-estate-market-update?r=4oc12

What would you like us to explore next: housing supply, the potential for a wave of distressed sales and foreclosures, migration patterns, or something else?

Let me know below!

Joshua Hansen | Share-with-Anyone Newsletter

07/26/2026

Who eats the garbage in Seattle, Portland’s Pearl District and the Vancouver WA Waterfront? 🐀🐦🐿️

Match each urban area with its daytime garbage munchers: crows, pigeons, rats or California ground squirrels. Then watch to see whether you guessed correctly—and meet some of the unexpected wildlife in city centers of the Pacific Northwest.

For more local surprises, watch my full comparison of the Vancouver, WA Waterfront and Portland’s Pearl District. See the link in my first comment below.

Which animal would you be most delighted to find eating your garbage?



Joshua Hansen
WA real estate agent
Keller Williams Premier Partners
Vancouver, WA
All offices are independently owned and operated

07/22/2026

Unlike ORDINARY videos on Vancouver, WA (or Portland) real estate, my full-length YouTube vids come with these [pick your adjective] musical intros.

This week's topic: the Vancouver waterfront vs the Pearl District and its surroundings - from falcons, ground squirrels, and sea lions to taxidermy oddities, Portland Leather Co., and Hallway PDX (the world's best karaoke bar inspired by "The Shining").

I'll put a link in my first comment below.

07/15/2026

Juvenile wood ducks (and Ellie with binoculars) at Turtle Pond on Salmon Creek Trail.

07/15/2026

Hockinson schools at affordable prices, for both of these!

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07/13/2026

Vancouver, WA & Portland, OR REALTORS, I’m looking for real estate ghost stories for an upcoming video!

If you’d be up for telling your story on camera, that would be fantastic! Prefer to submit it? That would be great too—I just want to share the stories!

📲 DM me or comment "GHOST" below!