With Christmas lights adorning neighborhoods and businesses, our friends, colleagues and neighbors bustling about to the various festivities of the season, and shoppers rushing to find the perfect holiday gifts, we are at the ending of 2019, and a decade. And what an interesting year it has been. The threat of rising interest rates never […]
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Competitive Strategies for Bend’s Tight Market
As all of us in Bend know, homes are selling quickly, prices are rising, and we have an inventory shortage. Like many parts of the country, Bend is truly a seller’s market. It is not uncommon to have multiple offers and occasionally bidding wars. With competing buyers for the same property, it’s necessary to act […]
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State of the Market
The Bend-Redmond metropolitan area ranked third in the nation for small city job growth in the recent report, “2015 Best Performing Cities,” by the Milken Institute, a national economic think tank. With roots as a logging and lumber town, the Old Mill District of Bend was once home to two lumber mills, which at their […]
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The Times They Are a-Changin’ in Bend
Market transformation gains momentum
Bend-Redmond ranked eighth nationally overall in the small cities category of the “2015 Best Performing Cities,” report by the Milken Institute, a national economic think tank. That represents a gain of 38 spots, up from 46th place in 2014, showing that the city is experiencing a rapid metamorphosis. In the category of high tech, Bend […]