She located investment properties for Kimco that met their specific perimeters for building new construction. From 2017-2019 Maria had the pleasure of working with one of Portland’s largest local development firms Kimco Properties LTD. Maria has experience selling new construction.

She successfully achieved a zone change approval from the Planning Commission and City Council Board on behalf of her client, thus successfully completing the lengthy zone-change process necessary for the endeavor to occur C1-Commercail to R3-High Density Residential. Maria has successfully navigated difficult conveyances that require a higher level of expertise.ĭuring the turbulent real estate market and recession of 2009-2011, she steadily and aggressively worked with clients who desired to purchase short sales, bank REO’s, and people who desperately needed to sell despite the market not being favorable to sellers at that time.īeyond, general seller and buyer representation, Maria has been involved with providing real estate consulting services for a multi-unit townhome development in the City of Sandy. That transaction had numerous moving parts, such as various contingencies coinciding with a successful zone change from Timber to Ag/Forest, also business occupancy permit approvals for the use of a 10,000 hangar, and establishing several easements for line of sight requirements, and access permits for ingress/egress from Portland Bureau of Water and Portland General Electric. Maria has had the privilege of selling some of the most noteworthy properties in Oregon one such example of that was the nostalgic estate of McKinnon’s Airport, Sandy Or. Maria began her real estate career in the Portland, Oregon Metro Area. Her knowledge of today’s real estate environment, as well as her advanced studies in marketing and advertising, has proved to be a tremendous asset to her sellers. In October 2014, she established her own brokerage in Oregon, which she is the managing principal broker Bella Grande Properties. Maria Skipper, is a principal real estate broker who has a 17-year, proven track record of outstanding fiduciary-client representation.

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