by Jason Boone | Jul 4, 2018 | Buying a home, Home Buying, Mortgage Interest Rates, Uncategorized
Anyone who has been in the market to purchase a home recently probably knows that interest rates on traditional 30-year mortgages have risen in the past year, from about 4 percent in July 2017 to 4.625-4.75 percent early this month. Results from a survey, however,...
by Jason Boone | Jun 19, 2018 | Bend Oregon Home Prices, Bend Oregon Real Estate, Buying a home
Median home prices are near an all-time high in Bend. The inventory of homes for sale skews strongly toward a “seller’s market.” Interest rates have risen from their historic lows of recent years. It seems as if there might be some credible arguments for why now is...
by Jason Boone | Jun 14, 2018 | Bend Oregon Home Sales, Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate News
The median sales price of a home in Bend, Oregon, remained virtually unchanged in May from the month prior even as other data indicates the market might be tightening. May’s median price of $415,000 was less than one-tenth of 1 percent less than April’s figure of...
by Jason Boone | May 16, 2018 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, NorthWest Crossing, Real Estate News
April in 2018 followed the pattern of previous years for real estate activity in the NorthWest Crossing neighborhood in Bend, Oregon, which remains among the most desirable areas of town. Ten single-family NorthWest Crossing homes were sold in April, traditionally one...
by Jason Boone | May 10, 2018 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate News
Activity in the Bend, Oregon, real estate market increased in April, setting calendar-year bests for active listings and average days on market. The median sales figure dropped from the month before – as has happened in previous Aprils – but was 6.5 percent more than...
by Jason Boone | Apr 13, 2018 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate News
March marked the fourth month in a row of increases in the median sales price of a home in Bend, Oregon. The figure of $421,950 wasn’t just another increase, though: It’s the highest for any month in the 11-plus years for which the Skjersaa Group has data. The...
by Jason Boone | Mar 13, 2018 | Bend Oregon Real Estate
The median sales price of a home in Bend, Oregon, continued to climb in February, and benchmark data points surpassed previous highs for any February dating to 2007. If the pattern from previous years holds in 2018, we have not seen a peak in the real estate market....
by Jason Boone | Mar 1, 2018 | Bend Oregon Home Prices, Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate News
The affordability of housing in the Bend, Oregon, area has the attention of government leaders, local media and the general public. The rising price of homes and the scarcity of rental housing have produced what is regularly referred to as a housing crisis. The...
by Jason Boone | Feb 22, 2018 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Mortgages
Home prices in Bend, Oregon, continued their general upward trend in January 2018. The rise in the median sales price here has been part of a nationwide increase in home prices. In this environment, it’s understandable to wonder if the market might be prone to the...
by Jason Boone | Feb 13, 2018 | Bend Oregon Home Prices, Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate Market, Residential Home Sales
The January sales figures for the Bend, Oregon, real estate market make two things evident: The winter is no longer a “slow” time of year, and the market is divided into two portions – what might be loosely called “affordable” homes on one side and those that are at...
