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Focus on Bend: 2015 in Bend - Inventory extremely tight in lower price ranges
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Monday, May 18, 2015. 2015 in Bend - Inventory extremely tight in lower price ranges. Year-to-date quick look at sales of single family homes on up to an acre in the greater Bend area shows continuing upward movement in prices with steadily decreasing inventory priced at less than $200,000. Anecdotally, real estate brokers say some major builders are having difficultly finding contractors to start new homes, which in turn means fewer units available for sale. TAKE A TOUR OF BEND. Principal Broker, Cascad...
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Focus on Bend: December 2014
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Sunday, December 7, 2014. The Buzz: Wild about "Wild" filmed near Bend. Entral Oregon and other areas of the state are in for a new wave of attention thanks to the pre-holiday. Release in theaters of the new film, Wild. Early positive reviews praise the performance of Reese Witherspoon, who stepped in with her indepedent production company and bought the rights to the book by Portland author Cheryl Strayed. Wild" as featured on opening page of PCT web site. Among the publicity for the movie. Other Bend-a...
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Focus on Bend: February 2014
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Sunday, February 9, 2014. Resort properties on the rebound with sales and new construction. Ith multiple golf courses, recreational trails and access to the scenic mountains, rivers and forests on the “dry side” of the Cascades, Central Oregon has staked a position as the state’s, and the Northwest’s, premier tourism and vacation home destination. Among the regional resorts, several new ones that emerged in the beginning decade of. Brasada Ranch in the Powell Butte area of Crook County, Pronghorn along P...
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Focus on Bend: November 2014
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Friday, November 21, 2014. The Tree Farm unites veteran developers-could be on market in late 2015. Lthough awaiting a decision by a land use hearing officer, the Tree Farm residential community of larger lots in the “urban interface” just outside Bend’s westside boundary could be on the market by late 2015, one of the partners told a group of real estate professionals. Kirk Schueler, a principal in The Tree Farm LLC and. Besides the Miller family and Schueler, the development group also involves West Be...
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Focus on Bend: May 2014
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Central Oregon again on upward swing with call centers. Entral Oregon may be the right number when it comes to call centers if the recently announced expansions of the regional industry is an indication. In late May, Ibex Global announced it would be adding an estimated 450 employees during the summer, which would push its total work force to about 850. Based in facilities above the Old Mill District off Wilson Avenue, the company initially began operations as iSky in 2000. Faceboo...
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Focus on Bend: May 2015
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Monday, May 18, 2015. Briefs: New vacation rental rules; hotel developer and Mirror Pond twist. Fter months of complaints regarding noise and parking impacts, among other issues, the Bend City Council has approved regulations tightening vacation rental requirements in residential neighborhoods. New rentals will need to be spaced at least 250 feet from the property lines of another rental, but existing rentals are in effect “grandfathered” from that requirement. Http:/ bendoregon.gov/index.aspx? A Springf...
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Focus on Bend: September 2014
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014. OSU Cascades 4-Year Campus survives council vote - next hurdle a state appeal? He effort to build an OSU-Cascades 4-year campus has passed another milestone with the Bend City Council unanimously upholding an earlier hearing officer’s decision that the project could proceed. The university has also emphasized it has yet to purchase the additional 46 acres, and the current owner was not interested in participation in a master plan at this stage of the project. Regarding the pa...
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Focus on Bend: October 2014
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Thursday, October 30, 2014. Resort land sales rebounding- Caldera Springs leads among new resorts. Ot that long ago Bend resort sales reached peak levels, driven in part by out-of-state buyers flush with accumulated real estate equity complemented by often lax. Beginning in 2005 several new resorts came to market, joining the existing legacy ones - Sunriver, Eagle Crest and Black Butte Ranch - that had established Central Oregon as popular vacation and getaway home area. As for recent performance, Tether...
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Focus on Bend: March 2014
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Sunday, March 16, 2014. Central Oregon jobs picture: positive but still digging out of recession. Irst the good news: Central Oregon is out front among Oregon regions in job growth. Now the not so good: It could take another eight years, until 2022, for the region to exceed the total jobs in the region in pre-recession 2007. This scenario of where the region has been, is now and might be heading is contained in the Oregon Employment Department report. State growth is projected to be 15%/. 8220;Even with ...
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Focus on Bend: Briefs: New vacation rental rules; hotel developer and Mirror Pond twist
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Monday, May 18, 2015. Briefs: New vacation rental rules; hotel developer and Mirror Pond twist. Fter months of complaints regarding noise and parking impacts, among other issues, the Bend City Council has approved regulations tightening vacation rental requirements in residential neighborhoods. New rentals will need to be spaced at least 250 feet from the property lines of another rental, but existing rentals are in effect “grandfathered” from that requirement. Http:/ bendoregon.gov/index.aspx? A Springf...
