Lake Oswego Real Estate

The Lake Oswego Real Estate market has been known as the premiere location to own a home in Oregon for more than 30 years. It’s prime proximity to Portland, a natural body of water, the outdoors, and a booming market makes the Lake Oswego Real Estate market a prime location. Now, you may be asking yourself, “If Lake Oswego is so desirable then surely there must have been some notable people to have lived there.” Not only have there been some very notable people live in Lake Oswego, you will find that some of the Lake Oswego houses for sale and the Lake Oswego condos for sale were once owned by those same notable people.

When you own one of the many Lake Oswego houses for sale you become part of the community that has housed famous athletes like LaMarcus Aldridge (NBA player), Kevin Love (NBA player), Lopez Lomong (US Olympian), and Neil Lomax (NFL player). Given that Portland is such a large market for many professional sports teams it is no wonder why you can find so many athletes calling Lake Oswego home. However, some of the athletes like Kevin Love are native Oregonians and call Lake Oswego home.

Lake Oswego isn’t only known to house athletes. Those who are notable in their fields of work tend of flock to Lake Oswego and find Lake Oswego condos for sale. Linus Pauling is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who called Lake Oswego home while Henry Selick of “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Coraline” fame enjoys the beauty of the Northern lake. Lake Oswego has been home to many notable characters throughout history and remains one of the most celebrated cities in Oregon to date.

Lake Oswego is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon, primarily in Clackamas County with small portions extending into neighboring Multnomah and Washington counties. Located south of Portland surrounding the 405-acre (1.64 km²) Oswego Lake, the town was founded in 1847 and incorporated as Oswego in 1910. The city was the hub of Oregon's brief iron industry in the late 19th century and is today an affluent suburb of Portland. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 36,619 a 3.8% increase over the 2000 population of 35,278.