by Jason Boone | Mar 5, 2020 | Real Estate Market
Amid a trend of increasing housing prices, angst about an impending plunge in values might seem understandable. With each record that is set for the median sales price in the Bend, Oregon, real estate market – and there were four such records in 2019 – a corresponding...
by Jason Boone | Feb 24, 2020 | Bend Oregon Home Prices, Bend Oregon Home Sales, Real Estate Market
Even as Bend’s population grows, as Deschutes County experiences the highest net in-migration of any county in Oregon, the volume of real estate transactions in 2019 was fewer than in the year before. In what appears to be a classic supply-and-demand story, the price...
by Jason Boone | Feb 19, 2020 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Market Trends
If you’ve lived in Central Oregon for many years like our team has, you know firsthand we can quickly go from living in a Winter Wonderland to balmy, mild days in “June-uary,” an interchangeable nickname for either a warm January or a cool June. With the holiday...
by Terry Skjersaa | Feb 17, 2020 | Bend Oregon News
February is designated as “CTE Month” to highlight the importance of career and technical education. Previously called vocational education or vo-tech, today’s CTE courses provide students with real-world skills they will need to enter the workforce in 16...
by Jason Boone | Feb 13, 2020 | Bend Oregon Home Prices, Bend Oregon Home Sales, Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Statistics
The snow we experienced in January didn’t match the depths of what we saw in January 2017, but the Bend, Oregon, real estate market showed strong similarities to that of three years ago. Consider this: There were 280 active listings in January 2020. The only January...
by Jason Boone | Jan 15, 2020 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Market Trends
Sales of residential homes in Bend were up 23% this December despite fewer active and new listings, and the median home price rose 3% month-to-month, based on the newest data we have for the local real estate market. The median home price is now $439,995, up slightly...
by Jason Boone | Jan 13, 2020 | Bend Oregon Real Estate
Sellers tended to stand firm on the prices of their homes in the Bend, Oregon, real estate market in December, but the number of transactions recorded was above normal for that month. Of the 363 active listings in December, 33 had reduced prices. That 9 percent figure...
by Jason Boone | Dec 21, 2019 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, NorthWest Crossing
Much like in the overall Bend, Oregon, real estate market, activity has slowed this calendar year in the NorthWest Crossing neighborhood, even as benchmark price points have increased and a record high price was paid in November for an NWX home. Through November, 90...
by Jason Boone | Dec 11, 2019 | Bend Oregon Home Prices, Bend Oregon Home Sales, Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate News
Relatively few homes were active on the Bend, Oregon, real estate market in November, resulting in a fewer-than-normal number of sales. The market in November also experienced declines in the median sales price on a month-to-month and year-to-year basis. One hundred...
by Jason Boone | Dec 10, 2019 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Market Trends
Although the median home price in Bend has captured headlines multiple times this past year for record-setting highs, it is now within one percentage point of the median home price in November 2018. Based on last month’s sales data, the current median home price in...
