by Lisa Broadwater | Jan 13, 2017 | About Central Oregon, Area Market Reports, Real Estate News, Uncategorized
In December, Bend saw a slight dip in home prices from the previous month, according to the January Beacon Report*.The median home sales price in Bend for a single-family home was $355,000. That’s a decline of 5 percent ($19,000) compared to November –- but it’s an...
by Lisa Broadwater | Jan 11, 2017 | About Central Oregon, About Sisters, Oregon, Central Oregon News, For Buyers, Real Estate News, Uncategorized
At last, an attempt to address Central Oregon’s critical need for affordable housing: According to the Bend Bulletin, Housing Works, the public housing authority for Central Oregon, plans to build 90 apartment and townhome units for low-income households...
by Lisa Broadwater | Oct 23, 2016 | About Central Oregon, Area Market Reports, Real Estate News, Uncategorized
Several trends worth note stand out among the third-quarter real estate statistics for Central Oregon, which were recently released by the Multiple Listing service for Central Oregon. For one, the average sales price for a single-family home in Bend has almost...
by Lisa Broadwater | Apr 16, 2016 | About Central Oregon, Area Market Reports, For Buyers, For Sellers, Real Estate News, Uncategorized
A survey of the first-quarter 2016 statistics for the Central Oregon real estate market showed a bit of a mixed bag. Folks expecting more of the same from the past several quarters — where almost every market saw healthy increases, both in the number of sales...
by Lisa Broadwater | Apr 1, 2016 | About Bend, About Central Oregon, Central Oregon News, Real Estate News, Uncategorized
In the increasingly common discussion about Bend’s affordable-housing crisis, one word is a constant. Three letters, actually: U-G-B. It stands for Urban Growth Boundary, and it’s a prime reason we’re in the mess we’re in right now. The truth is, when it comes to...
by Lisa Broadwater | Feb 11, 2016 | About Central Oregon, Area Market Reports, For Buyers, For Sellers, Real Estate News, Uncategorized
The winter sales slowdown that hit the Central Oregon real estate market in December 2014 didn’t repeat itself in 2015 -– far from it. While the number of fourth-quarter sales decreased in most markets in 2014 (anywhere from one percent to more than 20 percent),...
