John and Sandy Kohlmoos
Extension For Homebuyer’s Tax Credit
Bend Oregon Real Estate Activity Over the last few months, the Bend Oregon real estate market has shown some pretty dramatic activity . . . much of it at the low end of the price spectrum (of the 174 homes that sold in October, almost half were below $200,000). A major reason for this low…
Riverfront Estate . . . Bend Oregon
1518 NW 1st St. Bend, OR 97701 Proudly offered at $1.5 Million MLS# 2909826 UPDATE–Sorry, this home sold (at $1.25 million) and closed in less than seven days. Please see the link at the end of the post in order to search for other riverfront properties. Location, Timing, Concept There’s an old cliche in…
Bend Oregon . . . Jericoacoara, Brazil
Prologue . . . October snow Even though the Central Oregon Visitor’s Association boasts of over 300 days of sunshine a year in Bend, occasionally an early season system blows through in October and leaves us with a fresh coat of snow. At times like these, any self-respecting Realtor (even the most hardcore, dedicated) in…
Bend Oregon Real Estate . . . YTD figures
Fall in Central Oregon Moving into October, the weather starts to become brisk, the leaves change color, then fall. The third quarter real estate figures for the Bend Oregon market are in as well; we begin to get a picture of what is happening with Central Oregon home sales. Sometimes, we can even decipher what,…
Bend home sales . . . September 2009
Tiny cat feet A couple of days ago, I was riding my BMW Dakar out Tumalo Reservoir Road to the Sisemore Road area to check on on one of our Bend Oregon real estate listings (Barbara Way acreage), to replace flyers and straighten signs. As I scrambled down the gravel road (freezing my ass off!),…
Bend Oregon Real Estate . . . New Lending Rules
Buyer’s Market in Bend Oregon It’s certainly a buyer’s market in Central Oregon real estate; maybe the best in twenty years! There is an incredible range of choices when it comes to homes in Bend. And with all the options, has comes a beehive of activity and the necessity to move quickly when the right…
Homesites at Brasada Ranch!
Land at Brasada Ranch Just four years ago, in June of 2005, purchasers gobbled up 201 homesites at Brasada Ranch in a single weekend. The Central Oregon real estate market was on fire, and Brasada Ranch led the charge. At the time, the average sales price of the lots sold at Brasada Ranch was a…
Foreclosure opportunity at Brasada Ranch!
SORRY . . . THIS HOME SOLD ON DEC. 31, 2009! 16448 SW Brasada Ranch Rd., Powell Butte, OR 97753 Originally priced at $1.765 Million As of November 25, PRICE REDUCED to $895,000! Foreclosure at Brasada Ranch Occasionally, in a down market, a buying opportunity comes along that is almost too good to pass up…
Bend home sales . . . August 2009
Even though sales of single family homes in Bend Oregon dropped slightly (when compared to July figures) for the month of August, activity was still rather robust, especially at the lower end of the price spectrum. 127 houses sold in Bend, compared to 152 for the previous month. But the data also shows an increase…
Home Sales in Bend Oregon . . . July 2009!
The July statistics reveal an interesting road for real estate in Bend Oregon . . . sales figures are up, as is median sales price, however, notices of default (a measure of future foreclosure activity) remain near record levels. Home sales in Bend Oregon . . . up 10% The number of houses sold in…