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 | 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...
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 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...