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Get our full guide to choosing the right PNW neighborhood, with local insights on infrastructure, home prices, and where people tend to stay or move out.
On the Block
Monthly Market Brief
A concise read on PNW regions, neighborhoods, pricing movement, buyer behavior, and where the market is headed.
Why Work With Grand Union
We help you make the next move with context, honesty, and a strategy built around your life, not just the market.
Story-first. NOT transaction-first
Your goal, timing and risk tolerance drive the plan, not the listing cycle.
Region- and neighborhood-specific strategy
Pricing, timing, inventory, and trade-offs change block by block. We help you read the local picture.
Clarity when it counts
You'll get the full truth on trade-offs before you're on the hook.
Oregon-built
Grand Union started with Tyler Koski, a Southeast Portland native whose life and work have always been tied to Oregon’s public systems, neighborhoods, and community programs.
He grew up in and around Portland, watching redlining, disinvestment, and waves of “renewal” reshape whole neighborhoods. That history lived close to home: parents without degrees, a grandfather slowly building equity through a fourplex, and a dad fixing up a drafty house one weekend at a time.
Outdoor School. Cleveland High. University of Oregon. Nonprofit work. Housing work. Land trust work.
Oregon did not just give Tyler a backdrop. It gave him teachers, programs, neighbors, and chances. It raised him, then gave him work worth doing.
That shaped the belief behind Grand Union: When a place invests in you, you owe it a return.
Why We Give to Outdoor School
Outdoor School is where a lot of Oregon kids first learn that community is bigger than their own house, classroom, or block.
Tyler’s connection started there in sixth grade, then continued as a student leader, program leader, field instructor, site supervisor, and eventually site lead for MESD’s Outdoor School. He saw what a week outdoors could do: shy kids finding their voice, teenagers learning to lead, and whole groups coming home with a wider sense of responsibility.
Grand Union gives to Friends of Outdoor School because that kind of experience should not depend on a family’s income, zip code, or access.
For our team, Outdoor School represents something bigger than nostalgia. It is civic infrastructure. It teaches belonging, stewardship, confidence, and responsibility before most kids have words for any of that.
Real estate is also about belonging and stewardship. Different boots. Same mud.
Every closing helps fund that work because the next generation deserves the same kind of public investment that helped build us.
Why We Give to Proud Ground
Proud Ground expands access to homeownership for people who have too often been locked out of it.
Before founding Grand Union, Tyler spent eight years there, working in rehabilitation, affordability, acquisitions, repairs, and real estate brokerage across Oregon and Washington. He helped turn complicated housing mechanics into real homes for real buyers: land trust ownership, shared equity, ground leases, resale formulas, layered financing, inspections, repairs, and below-market sales.
That experience shaped Grand Union’s standard for the open market.
We do not treat housing as just inventory. We treat it as access, risk, equity, stability, and long-term responsibility.
Grand Union gives to Proud Ground because their work keeps ownership connected to affordability and place. They protect a path for buyers who are ready for ownership but blocked by a market that keeps moving the goalposts. Cute trick. Terrible system.
For our team, Proud Ground is a reminder that real estate can create wealth without abandoning community. It can help people build equity while keeping homes within reach for the next buyer too.
Why Work With Grand Union
We help you navigate them with context, honesty, and a strategy built around your life, not just the market.
Why Work With Grand Union
We help you make the next move with context, honesty, and a strategy built around your life, not just the market.
Story-first. NOT transaction-first
Your goal, timing and risk tolerance drive the plan, not the listing cycle.
Region- and neighborhood-specific strategy
Pricing, timing, inventory, and trade-offs change block by block. We help you read the local picture.
Clarity when it counts
You'll get the full truth on trade-offs before you're on the hook.
On the Block
Monthly Market Brief
A concise read on PNW regions, neighborhoods, pricing movement, buyer behavior, and where the market is headed.
Know Where to Look (before you start looking).
Get our full guide to choosing the right PNW neighborhood, with local insights on infrastructure, home prices, and where people tend to stay or move out.
Stories Behind the Sold Sign
From the Grand Union blog: deep dives on deals, neighborhoods, and strategies that build both equity and community.
Still Not Sure Where to
Start? Contact Us.
Ready to embark on your real estate journey? Contact us today to schedule a consultation with one of our experienced agents.
FAQs
What’s Tyler’s background?
A blend of nonprofit leadership and high-stakes dealmaking—informing Grand Union’s “soft skills, hard results” approach.
How does that background change the client experience?
It prioritizes clarity, emotional intelligence, and ethical negotiation without sacrificing performance.
What kinds of deals does Tyler specialize in?
Complex transactions with layered goals: financing nuance, neighborhood strategy, impact-minded structures.
What does “systems-and-stewardship” mean?
Repeatable processes that protect outcomes, plus a long-term commitment to place.
How do I work with Tyler/Grand Union?
Use the Contact page and choose your path so you’re routed correctly.
Buy, sell, or invest with a team that knows the house, the block, and the stakes behind the deal. Grand Union brings local context, disciplined strategy, and a commitment to leaving something useful behind.
Copyright (c) 2026 Grand Union
Buy, sell, or invest with a team that knows the house, the block,
and the stakes behind the deal.
Good real estate should protect the client and strengthen the place.
Whether you are buying, selling, or investing, Grand Union brings local context, disciplined strategy, and a commitment to leaving something useful behind.
Copyright (c) 2026 Grand Union
Copyright (c) 2026 Grand Union