Lynne Connelley Bend Real Estate

Daily I hear buyers who want a REAL DEAL in this market.  After months and months of national news stories about vacant houses, short sales, foreclosed homes and general doom and gloom, apparently many folks out there believe that this dismal picture is reality.  At least in Bend and at least for now, it is NOT, particularly under ...

If I didn't know better and I didn't have a calendar in front of me telling me it is clearly 2010 and NOT 2005, I would think we were back in the crazy days of Bend, OR, homes for sale when we had offers and multiple offers almost as soon as we listed a property, be it a residential sale, condo or a Central Oregon ranch or farm.  All ...

Looking at Bend OR homes for sale today on the Multiple Listing Tour were a few gems.  Please contact me if you want to see photos and I will send them out immediately. In city homes, two homes were outstanding.  One is on my favorite street in all of Bend, Drake Road.  This is located within walking distance of downtown (just a ...

Occasionally -- maybe a couple of times a month at most -- I see a fabulous buy on a home on our Tuesday morning MLS tour of Bend real estate or our Wednesday morning office tour of homes and farms & ranches for Coldwell Banker Morris.  This past week I saw THREE incredible deals, the kind of property you walk in and wonder, "WHO DO ...

Some good deals for sale in Bend?  Yep!  But there are a lot of NOT good deals as well.  Tuesday's MLS tour included a small home that backs to a busy road, a new home overpriced by at least $50,000 and a home backing a busy road that is at least $200,000 overpriced!  One would think in the current market that sellers would ...

Have you heard of the November 30, 2009, program by the Treasury Department called HAFA?  It took effect this week on Monday, April 5, and its guidelines follow below.  HAFA (Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives Program) is part of the fairly unsuccessful -- well, VERY unsuccessful -- HAMP program, Home Affordable Modification ...

You have probably heard about foreclosure auctions and heard they take place on the courthouse steps.  Is that really true?  Well, it really is! The world of forecosure auctions is complex and requires research and the knowledge base to know what to research.  You will also need to know where to find those answers.  ...

Each Tuesday morning we brokers have the opportunity to tour MLS listings in Bend, OR, which invariably yields interesting finds and equally interesting homes to stay away from!  This "sneak peek" helps me guide you to desireable homes you may not have noticed in your searches or mine, and sometimes I have seen a home in ...

As is happening nationwide, we in Bend are experiencing foreclosures in record numbers.  I have looked at sales in December, January and February to see if the number is actually increasing.  It is.  For instance, in December 2008 12 of the homes sold in Bend, whether on small lots or acreage, were bank owned.  In January of ...

And on with our weekly briefing on deals and non-deals from the MLS Tuesday tour of Bend OR homes for sale.  As you know, there are MLS listings in Bend that are excellent values, and I look for those on the weekly tour.  This week there were two small acreages that are considered farms or ranches in Central Oregon. First, the ...