These days, with winter in full swing (we've just received our second round of sub-20-degree weather with accompanying snow), I'm often asked "Is anything selling?" Up until today, my response has been strictly anecdotal: I've had several closings in the past couple of months, as have many of the
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01/26/2009
Central Oregon received its first big snow in December -- just in time for Christmas. Meanwhile, the Sisters real estate market continued to cool. It was nice to see yet another dip in the number of listings (down from a summer high of 243 in July to 132 in November). No one should be too su
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01/23/2009
So it seems our weeklong spring-like sojourn (sunny skies, temperatures in the mid-50s) is over, at least for now. Yesterday, we awoke to a foggy, frosty winter wonderland, with temperatures that started in the low 20s and never rose much above that. Today, the fog was even thicker, the frost s
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01/18/2009
Yesterday, I heard an interesting statistic on the CBS Morning Show during the broadcast's weekly "Milepost": Not only is the price of the American home shrinking, but so is the typical new home's square footage. As the show mentioned, according to the National Association of Home Builders, the a
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01/12/2009
