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Market Statistics Report Listings as of 03/01/09 at 8:06am Property Type  Residential    Property Subtypes  Condominium, Manufactured Home, Mfg Hm w/Acreage, Res w/Acreage, Residential, Townhome    Area  Bend/Tumalo/Alfalfa Statuses  Active, Contingent, Pending, Sold (2/1/2009 to 2/28/2009)     ...
03/01/2009
The Bend, Oregon real estate market is showing signs of life this month.  February, a notoriously slow month, has already seen 42 residential home sales and 144 pending sales.  The majority of the single family homes being sold and currently pending fall under the $300,000 mark.  The average sell...
02/23/2009
$8,000 FIRST TIME HOME BUYER TAX CREDIT As modified in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Enacted February 17, 2009 by President Obama Amount of credit ~  Maximum credit amount is $8,000. Eligible Property ~  Any single family residence(including condos, co-ops, townhouses) that will be u...
02/18/2009
Here is the link to the final version of the stimulus package to be voted on today.  One caveat, good luck getting through!  It's 1,000 pages long and everyone is in line to see what is truly being crammed in it.  My guess is by the time you finally get it downloaded, yet alone read it, it will h...
02/13/2009
  Active Residential Listing Report ~ February 11, 2009                                                   BEND                   REDMOND                 SISTERS                  PRINEVILLE Total Active Res. Listings -         1,823                        750                           187         ...
02/11/2009
I had a client today ask me how bad the home prices in Bend, Oregon have fallen.  I told him it depends on the location of the home in Bend, knowing that to be the case, but not really having the numbers to back it up.  I knew, without checking, that Northwest homes had faired far better than the...
02/10/2009
Timothy Geithner's press conference just ended, with a thud.  The stock market is dropping like a rock, currently down $306.  Bank stocks are down 10% on average. The financial news reporters are picking apart the plan.   Not the WOW factor we were hoping for yesterday.  President Obama teased th...
02/10/2009
President Obama's bank rescue plan will be unveiled Tuesday by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.  The plan, scheduled to be released on Monday, was delayed due to the expected vote in the Senate on the latest Stimulus Package. The bank rescue plan is rumored to rely heavily on private sector f...
02/08/2009
Senator John Ensign's(R-Nev.) housing recovery plan was defeated Thursday in the Senate by a vote of 62-35, largely along party lines.  The proposal was designed to reduce mortgage interest rates to as low as 4% for home buyers and existing homeowners looking to refinance.    The bill also includ...
02/06/2009
The U.S. Senate voted yesterday to amend the 2008 American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Act to include ALL homebuyers and increase the $7,500 tax credit up to $15,000 or 10% of the purchase price. The Senate acted unanimously to pass the amendment sponsored by U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga....
02/05/2009
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