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Bend Premier Real Estate | January 2023 Newsletter
What's in the January 2023 Newsletter?
- Bend Home Sales - 2022 Summary and 2023 Predictions
- Microwave Chocolate Cake Recipe
- Designers Predict the Hottest 2023 Home Trends
- 2023 Housing Market Forecast
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Bend Oregon Real Estate | 2022 Trends and 2023 Predictions
Bend Home Sales Significantly Down the End of 2022
When we study Bend real estate sales in 2022, we can state with confidence that the first six months were very different that the second half of the year. The first half of the year was a continuation of what was seen in 2021, with Bend single family home sales greatly impacted by lack of inventory and relatively low interest rates. It was an extremely strong sellers' market with multiple offers and contingency waivers a normal occurrence. However, the second half of the year was highly influenced by rising mortgage interest rates with these more than doubling in just a few months - something that had never happened before in the country's history. The high mortgage rates changed the buying power of potential Bend homebuyers, and the sales of
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Bend Premier Real Estate | December 2022 Newsletter
What's in the December 2022 Newsletter?
- Bend Real Estate Market in Transition
- Chasing Frozen Waterfalls
- 'Tis the Season for Eating
- A Place to Revisit Downtown
- Winter Home Selling Checklist
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Bend Oregon Real Estate | November 2022 Trends
Bend Real Estate Market in Transition
Ask any Bend Premier Real Estate broker about the local housing market and they will tell you that it is changing. After the initial few weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, real estate sales across the nation accelerated beyond any seen before. Lack of inventory coupled with low interest rates led to multiple-offers, tremendous buyer demand and rising home prices; between March of 2020 and March of 2022, the average price of a Bend single family home on less than an acre increased 67%. This rate of increase was not sustainable. When
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Chasing Frozen Waterfalls in Central Oregon
Paulina Creek in Late Fall Worth Seeing
We have hiked the Peter Skene Ogden trail many times, but we never tire of doing this when the weather turns cold. Paulina Creek freezes and the multiple waterfalls along the trail turn into beautiful works of art with ice sculpted into interesting shapes. The sounds of the running water are also muffled when the ice gets deeper and the quiet and isolation of the hike will amaze. On November 26, 2022 we hiked Peter Skene Ogden trail from McKay Crossing campground up Paulina Creek planning on going as far as the early snow permitted. We we pleased to find we could trek the entire way to Paulina Falls using our micro spikes as the trail was icy; the deepest snow was roughly a foot in a shadowed gully roughly 2/3 of the way to Paulina Falls. During the hike we enjoyed total privacy with no other hikers seen the entire day. But the views of the partly frozen waterfalls were lovely and the 13 miles in and out were well worth the experience. We highly recommend this hike in the winter, but be prepared for deep snow as the season progresses.
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