Posts with tag 'Central Oregon Real Estate Trends'
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Bend Oregon Real Estate | February 2025 Trends
Bend Real Estate Inventory is Way Up
The real estate trends for Bend single family homes are reflecting a changing market. Sales are dependent upon a mortgage interest rate that works for the majority of home buyers, but also upon available homes from which to choose. February 2025 saw a shift in both categories with a large increase in home inventory as well as a more moderate reduction in mortgage interest rates. Buyers are finding many more homes on the market that may meet their search criteria. Sellers are finding that in order to make their home stand ou...
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Bend Luxury Homes | 2024 Trends
What Happened With Bend Luxury Homes in 2024?
2024 was a year that reflected changes for Bend Oregon real estate. The high end luxury home market had more listings and more activity in 2024 compared with 2023. In particular, homes listed in all categories over $1,000,000 had strong sales with the only exception in the $1,300,000 to $1,599,999 category in which there was a 14.4% decrease in home sales. In this same category, days on market were up over 113% with an increase of 85% in months of supply (up to over 5 months). Based on an earlier 2024 review of the Bend luxury market, it was determined that many listings taken in this price point required pri...
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Bend Oregon Real Estate | 2024 Trends and 2025 Predictions
More Bend Home Inventory and Moderate Price Increases Were the Norm for 2024 Sales
2024 Bend home sales experienced modest price increases for the year, but Bend home buyers were fortunate to have more options. Sellers who had hesitated putting their property on the market during Covid and following when mortgage interest rates were close to 8% finally had more inclination to do so when mortgage rates dropped to the mid 6% range during the summer of 2024. Delayed moves which were offset by high mortgage rates for a subsequent purchase finally made sense when rates dropped. Although there was an increase in home prices and sales for Bend single family homes, it was modest. With more in...
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Inventory Levels Up with Bend Luxury Home Sales
Bend Luxury Home Buyers Have More Options
The figures are out and the first six months of 2024 reflects an increase in Bend homes for sale over $1,000,000. The amount of Bend luxury home inventory is significantly up compared with 2023 and 2022 which leads to more options for the Bend home buyers who can afford a high end home. The days on market are rising and home sellers who really need to sell are recognizing that with more competition, asking price needs to reflect today's market...
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Will Mortgage Rates Continue to Decline?
When you read about the Bend housing market, you'll probably come across some information about inflation or recent decisions made by the Federal Reserve (the Fed). But how do those two things impact potential Bend homebuyers?
The Federal Funds Rate Hikes Have Stalled
One of the Fed's primary goals is to lower inflation. In order to do that, they started raising the Federal Funds Rate to slow down the economy. Even though this doesn't directly dictate what happens with mortgage rates, it does have an impact.
Recently inflation has started to cool, a signal those incr...
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