Property Watch: Two Floating Properties for Double the Enjoyable on the Willamette

As if one cute floating residence weren’t sufficient of a draw, how about two, so you may share the life aquatic with your pals? Such is simply what this itemizing has to supply: two freshly up to date floating houses on a shared slip. Combined, they provide a modest 1,022 sq. ft of dwelling house, plus a beneficiant quantity of riverfront deck house. Which, in spite of everything, is the entire level of dwelling on the water.

Located within the Macadam Bay Club, the setting could not be extra totally different from the bustle of close by South Macadam Avenue. The moorage has a devoted car parking zone, with two spots included for this explicit property, and the entry ramp arcs over a treelined riverbank, which is what gives the primary home with its bucolic view.

The 2023 rework began from the underside up, upgrading the float basis with new metal and wooden beams, extending it by 220 sq. ft, and refreshing the deck with Azek/TimberTech composite decking. The exterior maintains its traditional shingle look, punched up with aqua blue trim, whereas the interiors reveal new kitchens and baths, plus space-saving built-ins.

The smaller home is known as the “Casita” and has a studio-style format, with a front room instantly contained in the entrance door, and the bed room on the rear. The kitchenette and a full toilet act as buffers in-between. The front room is cozy, with tall ceilings crisscrossed with wooden beams, a sliding glass door to the deck, and built-in bookshelves flanking the hearth. Meanwhile, the kitchenette presents simply the fitting home equipment—wine fridge, dishwasher, and microwave—for low-maintenance dwelling. It’s the proper setup for visitor quarters, whether or not rented for further revenue or made obtainable to family and friends.

The foremost home takes the same method to its aesthetics, additionally with excessive, ethereal ceilings, this time clad in wooden, and an excellent greater glass door that is the complete width of the wall. It opens on to the deck, and is topped with clerestory home windows to maximise the view. Space-saving measures embrace the lofted sleeping space, accessed by a ladder, cabinetry, and a Murphy mattress in the lounge. Patterned tile outfits the hearth encompass and full kitchen, whereas the toilet retains to extra impartial tones.

Naturally, a riverfront property like this could come properly geared up for the best Portland summer season weekend. Here, that features out of doors necessities like a ship slip, a grill station (furnished by a fuel line), and all that aforementioned deck house for eating, lounging within the solar, and launching oneself into the water at any given second.   

• Address: 7720 S Macadam Ave, Portland, OR 97219
• Size: 1,022 sq. ft/2 bed room/2 tub
• List Date: 4/24/2026
• List Price: $499,000, with $665/month HOA (for sewer, trash, water, and moorage upkeep)
• Listing Agents: Kendall Bergstrom-DeLancellotti and Ty DeLancellotti, Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s International Realty

Melissa Dalton is a contract author who has centered on Pacific Northwest design and life-style since 2008. Contact Dalton here. 

---

Editor’s Note: Portland Monthly’s “Property Watch” column takes a weekly take a look at an attention-grabbing residence in Portland’s actual property market (with periodic ventures to the burbs and factors past, for good measure). Got a house you suppose would work for this column? Get in contact at [email protected].