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Home + Sea Realty
We specialize in homes by the sea. Our clients will tell you that no one represents your interests with greater integrity and understanding of Oregon's coastal markets.
Contact usAstoria sits where the Columbia River meets the Pacific, on a steep hillside that faces north across four miles of water to Washington. It is the oldest American settlement west of the Rockies, and it looks it — Victorian houses stacked up the slope, a working waterfront of canneries turned into breweries and museums, and a downtown of brick and cast iron that has been restored rather than replaced. The Astoria–Megler Bridge and the Astoria Column frame nearly every view.
Housing here is unlike anywhere else on the North Coast. Much of the stock is a century old or more, on small city lots with sidewalks and river views, and the market includes everything from restored Queen Annes to mid-century ranches on the south slope and newer construction toward Warrenton. Home + Sea Realty brokers work the whole river city, from Uniontown to Alderbrook.
Downtown runs along Commercial and Marine Drive between the hillside and the river, a walkable grid of restored commercial buildings, the Liberty Theatre, the Riverwalk and the trolley line. Residential options here are mostly condominiums and apartments in converted upper floors and along the waterfront, with the hillside houses of the Shively and Astor neighbourhoods rising directly behind them. Everything is within a few blocks: the Sunday Market, the maritime museum, the ferry landing and the working docks.
Uniontown is the west end of Astoria, tucked under the bridge approach where the old Finnish and Scandinavian cannery workers settled. The houses are close together on narrow streets that climb the hill, many of them modest worker cottages from the early 1900s alongside larger homes with views straight up the river. The Uniontown waterfront has its own restaurants and the walk to downtown along the Riverwalk is flat and short.
East of downtown the city thins out along the river toward Tongue Point. Uppertown and Alderbrook are quieter residential neighbourhoods on larger lots, with a mix of older homes and newer builds, and the Alderbrook lagoon and Riverwalk's eastern end give the area a more open feel than the dense hillside to the west. Views here look down the river toward the bridge rather than across it.
The south slope of Astoria's ridge faces away from the river toward Youngs Bay and the Lewis and Clark valley. It is sunnier and more sheltered than the north-facing streets, with a mix of mid-century homes on wider lots, newer subdivisions, and easy access to Highway 101 south toward Warrenton and Seaside. Astoria's schools, the hospital and Fred Meyer are all on this side of the hill.
