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10 Barrel Sells (Out) to Anheuser-Busch
10 Barrel Sells (Out) The big beer news broke last Wednesday morning . . . local favorite and craft brewer 10 Barrel had reached an agreement to sell (out) to the world’s largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch. The fallout in “Beervana” was immediate, even though the owners launched a jocular good ol’ boy video saying that nothing…
The Life of Riley in Bend Oregon!
61048 Parrell Road, Bend OR 97702 MLS# 2011401492 Offered at $249,000 Just Imagine Imagine . . . sitting on your sunny private rear deck, sipping a cool one and enjoying the casual Central Oregon outdoor lifestyle as the world (or the golfers) go by. It doesn’t get much better. Schedule a tour. 61048 Parrell Road…
Bend Oregon Market Report . . . October 2014
The Giants Win The Pennant October . . . the month the Giants clinched the pennant, then went on to capture the World Series in most dramatic fashion. Seems the Bend real estate market pretty much knocked it out to the park as well. Especially after a rather lackluster month of September. Nine Sales Over…
Bend Real Estate . . . Sales Dip in September
September . . . The Month of Change September in Bend always feels like the month of change. Most of the tourists are gone, we’ve got glorious Indian summer days and cool nights, sometimes we even see our first snow. Bend Real Estate Market The Bend real estate market waffled (a technical real estate term)…
The Parks at Broken Top
19319 Blue Lake Loop 4/4.5, 3016 square feet Offered at $584,000 The Parks at Broken Top Since its creation by Costa Pacific Homes in 2000, The Parks at Broken Top has been one of Bend’s most popular communities. With a heritage that hearkens to an earlier time, The Parks at Broken Top is a neo-traditional…
Bend Rocked in August
Bend Rocked Bend rocked in August . . . Jack Johnson and Dave Mathews played to sold out, standing room only crowds at the Les Schwab amphitheater . . . and the Bend real estate market rolled on too. Six Homes Over $1M Once again (for the third consecutive month) we topped the 200 sale…
Dog Days of Summer in Bend
“Dog Days of Summer” “Dog Days of Summer” . . . to me, the phrase is not normally associated with reference to Bend. Instead, it seems to conjure ancient visions of Enos “Country” Slaughter and buggy nights of mid-summer baseball in St. Louis, maybe California’s parched Central Valley, or even Forence and the Machine’s eclectic…
233 Sales in Bend in June
[youtube]http://youtu.be/2mkcFEaP6_o[/youtube] Bursting at the Seams? Our little town certainly feels like it’s bursting at the seams (I had to wait for 3 minutes at the Reed Market roundabout at 5:00 PM a few days ago) . . . there is a ton of activity, hustle and bustle, scores of events, and a lot of folks…
How’s The Bend Market? May 2014 Update
How’s the Bend Market? Doesn’t matter where it is in Bend . . . the grocery store, riding the chair at Mt. Bachelor, cruising on Tiddly Winks or Funner, hanging at the river or one of the Cascade Lakes, enjoying a beer with friends; not a day goes by when we’re not asked the same…
Bend’s Median Price Tops $280,000
The Market is Fine! The Bend real estate market is doing just fine, thanks. While we didn’t reach the vaunted 200 sale plateau in April, we came pretty close at 195. And, less than 5% of those sales were “distressed properties” (bank-owned and short sales). Quite a contrast to just three years ago when distressed…