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Bend Oregon Real Estate | March 2024 Trends
Bend Home Prices Up and Inventory Levels Down
Despite the trends for January and February 2024 in which prices seemed to stabilize, the sales price of Bend homes rose unexpectedly in March. The year over year figure shows both median and average Bend home prices were up over 12% and inventory levels were down. When coupled with the steep rise in prices, affordability remains a major problem for potential Bend home buyers.
When March 2024 is compared with March 2023 for Bend single family homes on less than an acre, the following trends are noted:
- Average sales price up 12% to $893,967*
- Median sales price up 13.2% to $760,000
- Average list price up 9....
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What Are Experts Saying About the Spring Housing Market?
If you're planning to move soon, you might be wondering if there'll be more Bend homes to choose from, where prices and mortgage rates are headed, and how to navigate today's Bend real estate market. If so, here's what the professionals are saying about what's in store for this season.
Odeta Kushi, Deputy Chief Economist, First American:
". . . it seems our general expectation for the spring is that we will see a pickup in inventory. In fact, that already seems to be happening. But i...
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What's Up with Mortgage Interest Rates?
Recent headlines may leave you wondering what's next for mortgage rates. Maybe you'd previously heard there were going to be cuts this year that would bring rates down. That refers to the Federal Reserve (the Fed) and what they do to their Fed Funds Rate. While cutting, or lowering, the Fed Funds Rate doesn't directly determine mortgage rates, it does tend to impact them. But when the Fed met last week, a cut didn't happen — at least, not yet.
There are a lot of factors the Fed considered in their recent decision and most of them are complex. But you don't need to be bogged down by those finer details. What you really want is the answer to this question...
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Bend Premier Real Estate | March 2024 Newsletter
What's in the March, 2024 Bend Premier Real Estate Newsletter?
- High Mortgage Rates and Prices Affecting Bend Home Sales
- Bright Spring Salad
- Spring Home Maintenance Checklist
- Spring in Central Oregon?
- The First Step: Getting Pre-Approved for a Mortgage
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Bend Oregon Real Estate | February 2024 Trends
High Mortgage Rates - High Prices Affecting Bend Home Sales
For the 4th week in a row, the thirty year mortgage interest rate has risen which has impacted real estate sales across the country. With these rates now pushing 7%, the buying power of Bend homebuyers has diminished.
With this change, few sellers are putting their homes of the market. Why sell a home with a great interest rate when the replacement home will cost so much more to finance? Both Bend home buyers and Bend home sellers are making decisions based on the cost to finance and when mortgage rates rise, often the decision made is to do nothing.
Bend Real Estate Inventory Levels Remain Low
Although there is always a downward seasonal adjustment for Bend home sales in the winter, the number...
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