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Bend Oregon Real Estate . . . Rocco’s Pick of the Week . . . Deschutes Landing
Bend Oregon Real Estate . . . Deschutes Landing As a pretty urbane pooch, I get a chance to saunter around town a bit; I have gotten to know the Bend Oregon real estate market quite well. Wednesday has become my favorite day . . . I often get to accompany my mistress on the…
Strategic Defaults on the Rise in Bend Oregon
Strategic Defaults in Bend Oregon The photo above is simply a great photo; I used it because I love it . . . the raw power (and even the fear it evokes). It’s really not meant to be symbolic, or even a metaphor for anything. I guess if I were deeper (more glib?), it could…
Bend Oregon Home Sales . . . February 2010
Bend Oregon Home Sales Winter in Bend Oregon . . . local folks either rave about the powder at Mt. Bachelor or bitch about the dreariness and fog in town (what about those 300 days of sunshine each year?). The Bend real estate market marches to its own drummer. For February, we saw a slight…
Bend Oregon Home Price Drop Leads Nation?
Bend Oregon Home Price Drop Leads Nation Talk about an alarmist headline! I think we should be rejoicing in the fresh powder and all the glorious sunshine. But as our real estate market in Bend Oregon seems to chug along . . . sales numbers up one month, median price down, notices of default up,…
Craftsman Cottage in The Parks
Craftsman Cottage in The Parks 61590 Devils Lake Dr., Bend, OR 97702 Offered at $299,000 MLS# 290536 UPDATE–As of 2/10/2010, this home REDUCED AGAIN to just $299,000. On 3/12, it received a wonderful new coat of paint! The Parks Central Oregon Realtors and local denizens alike will tell you that there are many great neighborhoods…
Bend Oregon Home Sales . . . January 2010
Home Sales in Bend Oregon After three consecutive months of pretty stellar home sales figures (178, 176, 159) to close out 2009 in Bend Oregon, January reared its ugly head to let us know that our housing difficulties are far from resolved. 98 homes sold in Bend in the first month of the new decade ….
Bend Oregon Sales Statistics . . . 2009
Sales Figures for 2009 Year end sales figures for real estate in Bend Oregon for 2009 turned up some very interesting data. For the year, sales of single family homes (not including condos, townhomes, manufactured homes, or homes on acreage) in Bend rose a very robust 40% . . . going from 1120 in 2008,…
Broken Top Custom Home . . . under $500,000
Home For Sale in Broken Top 19560 Ball Butte Ct., Bend, OR 97702 MLS # 201000330 UPDATE–As of 2/23/2010, this home REDUCED to just $475,000 Broken Top Broken Top has for years been one of Central Oregon’s nicest upscale addresses; and certainly Bend’s pre-eminent golf community. Located on the favored westside of Bend, in an…
Brasada Ranch Cabin . . . Vista Plan . . . Short Sale
Brasada Ranch Cabin 16724 SW Brasada Ranch Rd. Powell Butte, OR 97753 Vista Plan– 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 1563 square feet MLS#201000103 UPDATE–THIS CABIN HAS SOLD!! The Boom At the height of the Central Oregon real estate boom at Brasada Ranch, in the fall of 2005, hungry buyers purchased over 55 luxury ranch cabins (at…
Bend Oregon home sales . . . December 2009
We’ve finally come to the end of, what was for many, a difficult year. We also close out a decade of amazing change. In Bend Oregon, our real estate market continued to be active. Home sales figures for the month show a total of 159 completed transactions, down just slightly from the very robust numbers…