by Jason Boone | Dec 28, 2015 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Mortgage Interest Rates, Real Estate News
By Jason Boone Predicting the future is a fool’s errand. As the last 15 years of peaks and valleys in real estate has taught us, it can be particularly foolhardy to say with any certainty what the year ahead will bring. Yet we all still look ahead to 2016 with a sense...
by Jason Boone | Dec 21, 2015 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Home Buying Tips, Mortgage Interest Rates, Mortgage Loan, Real Estate News
By Jason Boone The news was hardly surprising last week when the announcement came that the Federal Open Market Committee would be hiking the target range of the federal funds rate a quarter point. After seven years of a zero-interest policy, such a move from the...
by Jason Boone | Dec 16, 2015 | Real Estate Market
By Jason Boone Affordable housing, or supposed lack thereof, has been a much-discussed subject around Oregon. And Bend has not been immune, with a historically tight rental market, rising rents and a median home price that at last count sat at $321,500. Such market...
by Jason Boone | Dec 9, 2015 | Bend Home Sales, Bend Oregon Home, Bend Oregon Real Estate, Bend Oregon Realtor, Home Buying, Home Buying Tips, Real Estate News
By Jason Boone The residential real estate market in Bend, Oregon tends to slow during the winter months. Typically beginning in November, the colder weather combined with the holiday season often sends potential home buyers and sellers into temporary hibernation,...
by Jason Boone | Nov 24, 2015 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Home Buying Tips, Real Estate News
By Jason Boone Home values have grown significantly since the depths of the Great Recession. There is no denying that. Here in Bend, Oregon, the monthly median price has grown from a monthly low of $166,000 in November 2011 to $339,950 in October. For anyone who lived...