Strategic Defaults on the Rise in Bend Oregon

March 17, 2010
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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 […]

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Bend Oregon Home Sales . . . February 2010

March 5, 2010
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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 […]

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Bend Oregon Home Price Drop Leads Nation?

March 2, 2010
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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, […]

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Craftsman Cottage in The Parks

February 10, 2010
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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 […]

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Bend Oregon Home Sales . . . January 2010

February 8, 2010
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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 . […]

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Bend Oregon Sales Statistics . . . 2009

January 30, 2010
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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, […]

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Broken Top Custom Home . . . under $500,000

January 18, 2010
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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 […]

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Brasada Ranch Cabin . . . Vista Plan . . . Short Sale

January 11, 2010
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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 […]

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Bend Oregon home sales . . . December 2009

January 7, 2010
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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 […]

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2009 National Cycling Cyclo-cross Championships . . . Bend Oregon

December 29, 2009
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I’ve done plenty of posts on real estate in Bend Oregon and home sales in Central Oregon.  Invariably, I’m drawn back to the incredible “quality of life” we have here . . . the lack of real traffic, the clean air, the wonderful and eclectic restaurants, the usually salubrious climate, and the now affordable home […]

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Bend Oregon Christmas Parade

December 10, 2009
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I’ve been wrongfully accused of writing too much . . . real estate in Bend Oregon, homes for sale in Central Oregon, Brasada Ranch foreclosures, blah, blah, blah.  Well, as a wise man once said, “a picture is worth a thousand words” . . . this post will be mostly pictures. Bend Christmas Parade Saturday, […]

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