by Jason Boone | Jan 25, 2019 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate News
Finding decent and reasonably priced rental housing in Bend can be a challenge. In 2017, the rental vacancy rate in Bend was 2.63 percent, compared with 6.18 percent for all of the United States. For anyone familiar with the law of supply and demand, a scarcity of...
by Jason Boone | Jan 15, 2019 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate News
2018 ended with December showing a 7.9 percent year-over-year increase in the median sales price of a home in Bend, Oregon. The final month of the year was also characterized by continued signs of a housing market fueled by demand from prospective home buyers....
by Jason Boone | Jan 8, 2019 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate News
Given the Bend, Oregon, real estate market – characterized by six consecutive months of a median sales price of at least $425,000, an inventory of homes for sale that tilts toward sellers, and an average sales price to list price that rarely dips below 99 percent – it...
by Jason Boone | Dec 18, 2018 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate News
Sales activity in the Bend, Oregon, residential real estate market slowed in November compared with the several months prior, but the demand for homes in the area still produced a very slight increase in the median sales price from the previous month. November’s...
by Jason Boone | Nov 30, 2018 | Bend Oregon Real Estate
You wouldn’t go to someone billing himself as a dentist unless you saw the DDS after the name. The same holds for surgeons, optometrists, lawyers and the like. In real estate, the letters that come after a Realtor’s name are important, just as in other professions. In...
by Jason Boone | Nov 13, 2018 | Bend Oregon Real Estate
The median sales price of a home in Bend, Oregon, rose in October, stopping a three-month run of declines. October’s figure was $432,900, 1.9 percent more than the previous month’s median sales price and 7.1 percent more than that of October 2017. An increase in...
by Jason Boone | Nov 6, 2018 | Bend Oregon Home Buyer, Bend Oregon Real Estate, Uncategorized
It’s probably a safe bet that we at the Skjersaa Group choose to live in Bend for the same reasons many people do. The beauty of the area, the outdoor activities available literally outside our doors and just outside town, and the dry, sunny high-mountain climate are...
by Jason Boone | Oct 13, 2018 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Mortgage Interest Rates, Real Estate News
For only the second time in the last 11-plus years, the median price of a home in Bend, Oregon, has declined for three months in a row. September’s median price was $425,000, a drop from June’s $449,450, which stands as the highest for any month dating to the start of...
by Jason Boone | Sep 24, 2018 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate News
When home prices in Bend, Oregon, approach or exceed the prices seen before the housing market imploded a decade ago, a common reaction seems to be skepticism or concern, a sense of foreboding that another steep drop in the housing market must be imminent. Such a...
by Jason Boone | Sep 12, 2018 | Home Buying
August has recently been a month of consolidation in the median sales price in the Bend, Oregon, real estate market. The eighth month of 2018 followed that trend, with the median sales price falling 1.5 percent from July. The median sales price in August was $430,500,...
