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A Net-Zero Passivhaus Duplex in Portland

A two-unit project in Portland, Oregon, should generate as much electricity as the occupants use

Posted on Jul 5 2013 by Scott Gibson

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The two units at this Passivhaus project in Portland, Oregon, sold quickly. One of the spec units unit was sold before it was listed.

In Portland, Oregon, both units of a two-unit Passivhaus project sold before they were complete — one of them after being on the market for only two days and the second before it was ever listed with a real estate agent.
The net-zero energy O2Haus is the work of PDX Living, a company that is co-owned by Rob Hawthorne and Bart Bergquist. An earlier duplex project in Portand, called TrekHaus, was described in a GBA post by Richard Defendorf early last year.
The 02Haus units are 1,690 sq. ft. each, with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a one-car garage. Hawthorne says the project is the first net-zero Passivhaus spec project he's aware of in Portland. The project is in the Montavilla neighborhood.
After the first unit sold, the company had hoped to complete the second unit and schedule an open house before listing it. "But," Hawthorne said, "a couple of people had heard about it and someone came in and said, 'Please, please take my offer.' It was hard to refuse it. So one of the units was never listed."
The units sold for $379,000 and $405,000. He called the quick sale of the properties, at or above the asking price, a "good sign for the green building industry."