by Terry Skjersaa | Apr 16, 2020 | Bend Oregon News, Bend Oregon Real Estate
I hope you and your family are doing as well as possible during this surreal, unprecedented time. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our lives is profound, and many of us are adjusting to the “new normal” of working from home, supporting our school-age kids as...
by Terry Skjersaa | Apr 15, 2020 | Bend Oregon News
The impact of the coronavirus quarantine on Bend workers, families and local business owners has been sudden, and for many, financially devastating. Fortunately, our community and local government is providing many resources to help those impacted the most right...
by Jason Boone | Apr 14, 2020 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Market Trends
First of all, thank you for your calls and emails with questions about the Bend real estate market during this unprecedented time. As many of you know, we’ve ramped up our analysis of the local real estate market by tracking weekly data, which is helping us spot...
by Jason Boone | Apr 12, 2020 | Bend Oregon Home Prices, Bend Oregon Home Sales, Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate Statistics
The coronavirus pandemic didn’t appear to adversely affect home sales in March in the Bend, Oregon, real estate market in the aggregate. Week-to-week data, however, indicates that COVID-19 did have an impact on the volume of activity. There were 187 closed sales in...
by Jason Boone | Apr 7, 2020 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Market Trends
We have just received the newest weekly data on the Bend real estate market and wanted to provide you with a quick analysis. As expected, most real estate activity has declined during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the local real estate market is not at a stand-still....
by Natasha Smith | Mar 24, 2020 | Bend Oregon News
Gratitude. Maybe this word has lost its power due to overuse and become somewhat of a cliché. But not today…not now. Between the swirl of unrest, the sea of unknown and the sensation of restlessness, gratitude may be the only grounding force. If we focus on the...
by Terry Skjersaa | Mar 24, 2020 | Bend Oregon Real Estate
We appreciate the emails and phone calls we’ve received from many of you, both to check in socially and to ask questions about how the outbreak of COVID-19 is affecting the real estate industry. We thought it might be helpful for you to share some factual information...
by Terry Skjersaa | Mar 18, 2020 | Bend Oregon Real Estate
(Updated on March 24, 2020) First of all, on behalf of the entire Skjersaa Group, we hope you and your families are healthy and doing as well as possible during this incredibly difficult time. We are grateful for the proactive measures our local and regional...
by Jason Boone | Mar 18, 2020 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Market Trends
The median home price in Bend rose to $460,000 in February, an increase of 3% from January, and the highest since October 2019, when it was $471,250. Year over year, this is an increase of 7% in the median price of homes sold in Bend. Like January, February was an...
by Jason Boone | Mar 14, 2020 | Bend Oregon Home Prices, Bend Oregon Home Sales, Bend Oregon Real Estate
That Bend, Oregon, has a housing shortage seems to be an accepted fact. A largely ignored aspect of the housing situation in Bend, though, is that there is increasingly a relative shortage of homes for sale. In February, for the fifth month in a row, there were fewer...
