bend real estate: Bend Oregon Real Estate Market Update - 04/12/12 08:10 AM
 
Bend Oregon Real Estate . . . March 2012 by John and Sandy Kohlmoos
Bend Home Sales . . . March 2012 The snow continued to fall in March (473″ to date at Mt. Bachelor), and homes in Bend continued to sell . . . 177 all told. That’s up an amazing 32% from the number of houses sold in Bend in February. For sale inventory in Bend stayed pretty steady, with just 425 active listings (compared to 422 a month ago) . . . that’s still close to an all-time low, and off more than 70% from just … (0 comments)

bend real estate: Pending Sales Soar in Bend Oregon - 03/21/12 08:33 AM
 
Bend Oregon Home Sales . . . February 2012
Bend’s Pending Sales Soar Big news in Bend Oregon real estate for the month of February was the soaring rate of pending home sales.  195 homes in Bend went pending . . . that’s the highest number in almost four years, and, perhaps an indication of some sunnier weather ahead.

Notices of Default Down in Deschutes County Another positive sign of real estate in Bend was a continuing decline in NOD’s–just 143 for the month (throughout much of 2009 and 2010, NOD’s ran between 250 and 400 . . … (0 comments)

bend real estate: Bend Oregon Market Report - 11/13/11 05:59 AM
Bend Homes . . . Sales for February 2011 by John and Sandy Kohlmoos
February 2011
Aawooo . . . the fluffy soft snow and frigid temperatures have returned to Central Oregon! I guess I have to retract all my whining from last month about the crummy conditions at Mt. Bachelor.

February Bend Home Sales We saw the sale of 111 homes in Bend during February. Down a bit from the 125 houses sold in Bend in January (Homes sold in Bend), and almost identical (110) to the number of a year ago.
Bend Real Estate Trends The median … (0 comments)

bend real estate: Rocco's Perspective . . . Why Mortgage Rates are on the rise - 11/11/11 04:24 AM
Why Mortgage Rates Are Going Up by Rocco (posthumously)
A very succinct analysis, thanks to Larry Wallace of True North Mortgage.  Even I can understand this one.
Why are Mortgage Rates Rising? My master tells me that mortgage rates here in Bend hit their low of around 4% a few months ago . . . in October of 2010 to be exact.  Since then, things have changed; in fact rates have risen almost 25% in the last week or so. Today, a 30 year fixed rate conventional loan is running at 5%.

Let’s take a quick rudimentary review (again … (0 comments)