by Jason Boone | Jan 11, 2016 | Bend Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate News
By Jason Boone What was already an impressive year in 2015 ended on a particular high note in December. In fact, an almost shocking number of homes were sold during the last month of 2015, pushing the year into record-breaking territory. How good of a month was it?...
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 Oregon Real Estate, 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,...
