Buying a new home is always a journey, from start to finish, and sometimes the competition can be fierce. Imagine searching for the perfect home and eventually identifying the “one,” only to discover that two or three other buyers are in love with the same property. In the current Central Oregon market, having multiple offers […]
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Redlining: The U.S. Heritage of Inequality in Homeownership
The lasting effect of a decades-old housing policy
Fifty-two years ago, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968. The Act prohibited the discrimination on the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, color, sex or national origin. Title VIII of this Act is known as the Federal Fair Housing Act, later amended in 1988 to include the prohibition of […]
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Importance of Maintaining Your Home
The interior checklist
Maintaining a home inside and out will help protect resale value and reduce the risk of expensive and preventable repairs. Speaking first-hand from both a general contractor’s perspective who’s repaired many preventable issues and a realtor who has shown and sold many properties, a small and consistent effort goes a long way. Frank Lesh, former […]
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Forward Progress and Upward Trends after May’s Real Estate Reports
Who is ready for some good news?
The past several months have been ones filled with uncertainty, fear, scarcity and a host of other emotions; all of which had a huge impact on the markets. The stock market tumbled, the real estate market experienced a massive downturn in new inventory and pended transactions, unemployment skyrocketed and the political divide over COVID-19 and […]
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Importance of Maintaining Your Home
The Exterior Checklist
Purchasing a home is most likely the largest investment that anyone will make in their lifetime and it’s important to improve and take care of the property. Besides a sense of pride and a feeling of accomplishment, there are additional reasons that homeowners should consider maintenance a necessary task and not as an option. A […]
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Is the Market Going to Experience a Downturn the likes of the Great Recession?
The question I’m asked almost daily
The weather is warming, the signs that summer is afoot are all around us and we are officially living a new “reality.” Historically, spring and summer months in the real estate market are bustling with energy and excitement. As we know, nothing about 2020 has been typical or could even be described as remotely normal. […]
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The Times, They Did Change
Impacts of COVID-19 on real estate
As Central Oregon begins to reemerge slowly and safely from quarantine, many are anxious to get back to normal and accomplish the real estate goals put on hold due to the pandemic. A large number of buyers and sellers are ready to make their move but everyone is still asking themselves, what is this market […]
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COVID-19 Impacts on Central Oregon’s Real Estate Market
Are homes selling, and at what price?
As we are all acutely aware, the United States and global economies as a whole have been dealt a significant blow by an invisible, undiscriminating “enemy” to the human race. News cycles, government briefings, social media outlets and community conversations all invariably involve the current and projected economic situations of the market sectors and industries […]
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Personal Protection, Social Distancing and Real Estate
What approach are professionals in the industry taking to keep themselves and their clients protected from COVID-19?
Six weeks ago, life and the modes of human interaction took a massive turn in direction no one was prepared for or could have imagined. Not only has COVID-19 completely changed how people interact with each other for the short term, but also will have a lasting impact and quite possibly irreversible change in society’s […]
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Property Managers and COVID-19
Why using a property manager is crucial during a crisis
In recent weeks, life as we know it has changed. In fact, the word change is rather an understatement. For the first time in nearly 100 years in the United States, businesses have shuttered, schools are closed, the streets of cities are barren and our country is coping with one of the worst biological outbreaks […]