by Jason Boone | Dec 12, 2016 | Bend Oregon Real Estate
Even in the Bend real estate market, it’s reasonable to expect a slowdown in activity in the final months of the year, with fewer homes sold and prices dropping. Except this year, that’s not happening in Bend. November sales figures, in fact, showed an increase in the...
by Jason Boone | Nov 29, 2016 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Home Selling Tips, Residential Home Sales, Uncategorized
We all have a lot on our plates this time of year. That reality can make the prospect of trying to sell a home appear daunting. Who would put their home on the market now, just after Thanksgiving and a little before Christmas? Well, as counterintuitive as it might...
by Jason Boone | Nov 17, 2016 | Home Buying
The leaves have fallen from the trees. A light dusting of snow has covered the ground on a couple of recent mornings. Car windshields have to be scraped clear of frost and ice for the morning drive to work. Yes, we’re full-on into autumn and just days from...
by Jason Boone | Nov 7, 2016 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate News
By Jason Boone The number of homes sold dropped and the median home-sale price in Bend, Oregon, fell in October, copying a trend from the previous October. The year-to-date median sales price continued to rise last month — as it has done each month in 2016...
by Jason Boone | Oct 27, 2016 | Buying a home, Home Buying, Home Sales Process, Home Selling Tips
By Jason Boone In a lot of instances, a homeowner might not be able to control when he sells his house. A change in jobs, a development affecting a family member who resides in a different town or a sudden alteration in one’s lifestyle choice can result in the need to...
by Jason Boone | Oct 26, 2016 | Bend Oregon Real Estate
Selling a property is not everyone’s cup of tea. Most people have to move mountains in order to get the best price for their property. You have to make sure that your property is in its best condition, so that you can make huge profit from it. The potential buyers...
by Jason Boone | Oct 20, 2016 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate News
Much like the overall Bend real estate market, the sales environment in Northwest Crossing picked up in September from the previous month. The number of homes sold and the median sales price increased, and the average days on the market for homes decreased, compared...
by Jason Boone | Oct 11, 2016 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate News
By Jason Boone Any sense during the summer months that the housing market in Bend, Oregon, was softening or beginning to tilt in favor of buyers might be erased by the sales figures from September. After three months of declines in the median sales price, it rose in...
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 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...
