Floating Homes in Portland, Oregon
The Only Resource You Will Ever Need To Help You Buy, Sell, Rent, Or Enjoy Living In A Floating Home

Portland Floating Homes is an online resource which has been developed to meet the needs of everyone inspired by the Floating Home Lifestyle in the Portland Metro area (including Portland, Scappoose, and St. Helens).
We are on the river nearly every single day of the year.
Portland Floating Homes’ Principal Broker, John Wesley McPherson, Jr., with Premiere Property Group, LLC, has experienced just about everything having to do with floating houses from a float replacement, to-the-studs renovation of a floating house on the Multnomah Channel, permitting with the City of Portland including Title 28 floating home building codes, navigating marina rules, and helping people buy and sell floating homes. We have first-hand expertise about buying, selling, renting, and living in floating homes which can benefit you.
HOW CAN PORTLAND FLOATING HOMES HELP YOU?
Before the launch of PortlandFloatingHomes.com in the Summer of 2018, most of the information about floating homes was passed by word of mouth and many floating home owners, buyers, and sellers stumbled while trying to chart their own course through floating home ownership, making costly mistakes along the way.
As a service to those who are part of the floating home communities in which we live and appreciate, and in hopes of saving you time, stress, and money, we have taken the wealth of information we have gained from our first-hand experiences with floating homes over the decades and created the first-and-only, truly comprehensive, and regularly-updated, definitive online floating home resource for your benefit.
Whether you own, rent, are thinking about selling, or interesting in buying a floating home, we are the only floating home resource you will ever need.

Buyers
We represent, guide and protect you through the unique process of buying or building a floating home. Our expertise has helped over 100 buyers and can help you.Sellers
From talking with hundreds of prospective floating home buyers each year, we know what buyers want and can help sell your home faster and at the best price.Owners
We are the Floating Home Owner Manual you never received. Our site will save you time, money, and stress while increasing your enjoyment of the lifestyle.Renters
We pull floating home rental listings from multiple sources to offer the only one-stop site with how-to guidance to help you live your dream of waterfront living.Take a Tour of the Floating Home Communities of the Portland Metro Area
Explore Our Guides for Floating Homes
These guides are for daydreamers, wannabe pirates, paddling misfits, kayak adventurers, and explorers of the world.
We developed these guides for anyone who is curious about living in or purchasing a floating home:
- GUIDE: Floating Home Living answers what is it like to live in a floating home and would I like it?
- GUIDE: Floating Home 101 answers what do I need to understand about floating homes before I decide that buying one is a good idea for me?
- GUIDE: Floating Home Financing answers can I afford a floating home and do I have what it takes to qualify for a floating home loan?
- GUIDE: Choosing a Moorage answers how to find moorages which fit my lifestyle (pets, rules, watersports) and budget. Unlike homes on land which emphasize location above all else, so many other non-obvious factors are critically-important to helping you determine if a moorage is a good fit with your needs. This guide is thorough and explains everything you need to know to help you make the best decision for you.
Portland Floating Homes Blog
A Chronicle of Life on the River
Tax form: FILE IT!!!
ALL floating home owners in Oregon send this form in WHEN YOU READ THIS FORM YOU MIGHT THINK IT DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU OWN A FLOATING HOME, IT DOES APPLY TO
Don’t Miss the Multnomah Channel Floating Home Owners Meeting
Don’t Miss the Multnomah Channel Floating Home Owners Meeting At Portland Floating Homes, we make it easy to connect floating home owners to resources which help make their life on the water easier. You can
Don’t Forget to Return this TAX FORM!
Yes, ALL floating home owners in Oregon need to return this ridiculous tax form. A floating home is considered Personal Property and is subject to property taxes. Oregon Revised Statute (ORS) 308.290 requires every
Our Network
Portland Floating Homes is a part of The Portland Team, a real estate team with Premiere Property Group, LLC. The Portland Team partner network serves the Portland metropolitan area including Portland, Lake Oswego, West Linn, Sherwood, Tigard, Beaverton, Aloha, Hillsboro, Forest Grove, Cornelius, Gresham, Scappoose, Warren, St. Helens, Columbia City, and Deer Island. Premiere Property Group, LLC is the largest real estate brokerage in Oregon and SW Washington with over 1,000 agents, eleven offices, and over 2 billion dollars in local real estate sales annually.