About

ABOUT

Hi, I'm Annie Rose.

I’m an artist, an activist, a community organizer, a lover of spreadsheets and kitty cats, and a Realtor. My job is to help your real estate dreams come true, whether it’s finding the sweetest of bungalows or starting an urban farm & housing co-operative. That dream of living next door to all of your best friends? It could be more possible than you think! I’m here to help you explore what home means to you. With my years of experience in innovative, Outside the White Picket Fence housing, I can expand the options of what you can do with what you buy, and highlight the best sides of the home you’re selling.

I’ve lived in Portland since 2004, and I love this town. It’s changed so much, and it’s going to keep changing. Who’s going to shape these changes? I believe every Portlander has a right to the safe, stable, nourishing housing that provides the firm ground we need beneath us to continue to change our city to a more equitable and just place.

Which is why housing advocacy is so incredibly important to me. One of the reasons I decided to become a Realtor was to contribute to affordable housing work in our community, from bringing warm clothes to houseless folks on freezing nights to using my professional standing to advocate for affordable housing measures on a state and city level. I’m an advisory board member of Proud Ground, a housing land trust that creates permanently affordable homes, and I’m committed to giving back to housing non-profits.

I believe in the people of Portland, and through homeownership we can care for ourselves and each other in a way that no corporate entity or profit machine ever will be able to. That’s where my passion for Real Estate Outside the White Picket Fence comes in. I want Portlanders to have access to the housing options and possibilities that are guarded so closely by the real estate big guns. We can do so much! ADUs are a great example--every day homeowners are able to do a development project on their own property, with their own resources, thus increasing the housing density in our city. Rental income from ADUs stays in our community, they provide safety-net housing, they’re a great way to live in community while not having to bug anyone about doing their dishes. Developers build units and capital. Portlanders build homes and community wealth.

I knew ADUs were the future, which is why I jumped on early--I am the nation’s first accredited ADU Specialist Realtor. But we can go even further Outside the White Picket Fence! Just a few of the projects I work on:

Detached Bedrooms

Detached Offices

Buying with Friends

Multigenerational living

Condominium style ownership of ADU / main house

Building multiple houses on a big lot

Apartment dwellers purchasing their apartment building

Tiny houses on wheels

Cooperative Purchasing

Non-profit property ownership

Sweat equity as a tool of wealth redistribution

Cottage Clusters