by Jason Boone | Sep 26, 2016 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Mortgage Interest Rates, Mortgage Loan, Mortgages
By Jason Boone Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen announced this month that the central bank would not raise its benchmark interest rate. What can be read into that for the housing market in Bend, Oregon? First understand that the Fed Funds Rate is used to set...
by Jason Boone | Sep 14, 2016 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate News
By Jason Boone In my review of May’s home sales data in Bend, Oregon, I suggested that the market might have been reaching a peak. The figures for the three months since seem to support that theory. The median sales price of a home in August was $359,000. That...
by Jason Boone | Sep 13, 2016 | Bend Oregon Home Prices, Bend Oregon Home Sales, Bend Oregon Real Estate
By Jason Boone In my review of May’s home sales data in Bend, Oregon, I suggested that the market might have been reaching a peak. The figures for the three months since seem to support that theory. The median sales price of a home in August was $359,000. That...
by Jason Boone | Sep 8, 2016 | Bend Oregon Real Estate
By Jason Boone With the city of Bend, Oregon, making progress toward an expansion of its urban growth boundary, some observers of the real estate scene might think that the market for homes — both owner-occupied and rental — will relax from the last couple...
by Sophia Basurto | Aug 18, 2016 | Real Estate Market, Real Estate News
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by Jason Boone | Aug 10, 2016 | Bend Home Sales, Real Estate News
By Jason Boone Although the median sales price of a home in Bend, Oregon, dropped in July for the second month in a row, there are plenty of signs that the trajectory of the market has only slightly leveled off and hasn’t begun anything approaching a downward path....
by Jason Boone | Aug 2, 2016 | Bend Oregon Home Buyer, Real Estate News
By Jason Boone Ground has been broken on a 50-home development in Northwest Bend after about a year and a half of contention. The Tree Farm development is west of Miller Elementary School and north of Northwest Skyliners Road. Encompassing 533 acres, the development...
by Jason Boone | Jul 10, 2016 | Bend Home Sales, Real Estate News
By Jason Boone June was the busiest month for home sales in Bend, Oregon, to date in the 2016 calendar year in terms of houses sold and active listings, and the increase in inventory might have helped produce the first month-to-month drop in median sales price since...
by Jason Boone | Jul 1, 2016 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Mortgage Interest Rates, Mortgages
By Jason Boone Voters in Great Britain helped make home ownership more affordable for buyers in the United States. The effect isn’t huge, but it’s there. The late-June “Brexit” referendum, which came down on the side of Britain leaving the European Union, had an...
by Jason Boone | Jun 23, 2016 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate News
By Jason Boone What can the annual Central Oregon Tour of Homes tell us about the real estate market of Bend, Oregon? In addition to offering home-buyers a chance to see what local builders provide, the profile of the homes on display might furnish insight about the...
