What's In The January, 2024 Bend Premier Real Estate Newsletter? Bend Home Sales Were Limited in 2024 Bang Bang Cauliflower January Home Maintenance and Safety Checklist Chasing Frozen Waterfalls in Central Oregon Achieving Your Homebuying Dreams in2024 Original blog can be read at Bend Premier R
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01/11/2024
Bend Oregon Real Estate Sales Were Limited In 2024 Probably the biggest challenge for Bend Home Sales in 2024 was mortgage interest rates. Mortgage rates started the year at 6.48% and ended the year at 6.62%. During the middle of the year, the mortgage rates rose to 7.79% which greatly limited t
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01/09/2024
My parents died fairly recently - my father in May 2020 and my mother in December 2022. They lived long, full lives, however, and passed when they were in their 90s.My father was a WWII veteran, having served in the US Army occupation forces in Vienna after the war ended. During his life, he enj
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12/29/2023
Mt Bachelor Village Is One Of Bend's Oldest Resort Communities Envisioned in the early 1970's by Brooks Resources as a resort community to house vacationers wishing to ski at nearby Bachelor Butte (now known as Mt. Bachelor), the successful condominium development of Mt Bachelor Village has grow
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12/26/2023
Years ago when our children were very young, they all started playing soccer with Park & Rec. With our first, my husband learned how to coach and he progressed in his expertise until he was certified in many different types of coaching styles and became the State of Oregon Girl's Soccer Coach of
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12/22/2023
What's In The December, 2023 Bend Premier Newsletter? Bend Home Sales Slow 5-Ingredient Peppermint Bark 7 Simple Steps to Prepare Your Home for Christmas Hike Paulina Falls at Newberry Crater Fall 2023 3 Reasons to Sell Your House Before the New Year Original blog can be read at Bend Premier Real
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12/13/2023
Tetherow Is A Premier Luxury Golf Resort Community In Bend The developer for Tetherow broke ground on the destination golf resort prior to the housing crisis of 2008. Initial lot sales were brisk, but once the great recession hit, sales dried up. The development sat with little activity until 20
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12/08/2023
Bend Home Sales Slow There is a seasonal slow down experienced every fall for Bend real estate sales. When school starts, many would-be Bend home buyers focus on other things. While retirees and second home buyers may be active in early to mid fall, once Thanksgiving comes, the number of Bend re
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12/06/2023
Will Mortgage Rates Continue Their Downward Trajectory? For the past five weeks, mortgage interest rates have dropped, returning to figures that haven't been seen since August. Any relief from the high rates recently experienced is welcome. With each 1% reduction in mortgage rates, it roughly re
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12/05/2023
Peter Skene Ogden Trail Is A Favorite Off Season Hike We have hiked from McCay Crossing to Paulina Falls multiple times, typically in the late fall and early spring when crowds are gone and snow accumulation is limited. We have always enjoyed the experience and have seen Paulina Creek and the n
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11/16/2023
