Michele DesCombes

Michele helps buyers and sellers throughout the greater Portland, Oregon metro area, including neighborhoods across North, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest, East, and South Portland, as well as westside and south-metro communities such as Beaverton, Hillsboro, Tigard, Lake Oswego-area neighborhoods, and surrounding communities.

Michele works with first-time buyers, repeat and move-up buyers, homeowners preparing to sell, clients buying and selling at the same time, investors, and estate representatives or families managing inherited property sales.

Michele began her real estate career during the 2007 housing downturn. Working through very different market cycles has shaped her emphasis on current data, local conditions, preparation, and strategy rather than broad real estate headlines.

Michele starts with a strategy around timing, condition, presentation, pricing, competition, and the improvements most likely to matter to buyers. From there, she helps build a customized listing and marketing plan designed to position the property strongly when it reaches the market.

Michele uses a detailed comparative market analysis that considers recent sales, active and pending competition, neighborhood trends, property condition, updates, location, lot characteristics, buyer demand, and current market conditions. Automated estimates can be a reference point, but they do not always capture the individual features that influence market value.

Yes. Michele helps sellers prioritize preparation based on the home, likely buyer, competition, and expected return. The goal is not to complete every possible project, but to identify the repairs, staging, cosmetic improvements, and presentation decisions that are most likely to support a successful sale.

Yes. Michele takes a design-forward, buyer's-eye approach to listing preparation. Recommendations may include furniture placement, staging, paint, lighting, landscaping, repairs, editing rooms, and other details that help a home photograph and show at its best.

Yes. Michele can prepare a personalized market analysis using recent comparable sales and current activity around the property. She also considers features that automated valuations can miss, such as renovations, condition, views, lot characteristics, street location, floor plan, and presentation.

Yes. Michele and Hatch Homes Group help first-time buyers understand the process from financing and neighborhood selection through property evaluation, offers, inspections, negotiation, appraisal, and closing. The emphasis is on helping buyers understand both what they are doing and why each decision matters.

Michele helps buyers compare location, housing styles, lot sizes, neighborhood character, nearby amenities, commute considerations, property taxes, resale factors, and current market activity. Portland's housing stock and pricing can vary significantly from one neighborhood to another.

A strong offer involves more than price. Michele helps buyers evaluate the seller's priorities and strategically structure financing, timelines, contingencies, possession, communication, and other terms while keeping the buyer's risk and goals in view.

Yes. Michele helps clients plan the sequence around financing, listing preparation, offer terms, possession, contingencies, and moving so they can understand their options before either transaction begins.

Yes. Michele works with estate representatives and families selling inherited property, including decisions around preparation, repairs, personal property, pricing, timing, and how much work should be completed before the property is listed.

Yes. Michele has experience working with investors and evaluates property through factors such as location, purchase price, condition, marketability, future resale considerations, and the broader local housing market.

Depending on the situation, Michele looks at recent comparable sales, active inventory, pending sales, days on market, price changes, buyer competition, and other local indicators that help show how much leverage buyers or sellers currently have in a particular segment of the market.

You do not need to be ready to move immediately. Starting the conversation several months before a potential purchase or sale can create more time to evaluate financing, prepare a property, understand the market, and build a plan.