Bend Oregon Real Estate | Central Oregon Real Estate

Relocating to Central Oregon

Welcome to my website! Here you can search for Bend Real Estate, Deschutes County Real Estate, and Central Oregon Real Estate. While you can access information on any listing in the Central Oregon MLS through the Property Search, I also provide 4 to 6 Featured Listings to give a quick glance at some typical Bend Oregon properties. We also offer Free Real Estate Reports for Buyers and Sellers.

My Community Links page provides quick links to the Activities, relevant Information, Restaurants, and Hotels & Motels in the Central Oregon area. My Community Info page provides detailed Oregon demographic information on local towns. For families interested in our area check out our excellent schools on my Oregon School Information page.

My Central Oregon Info page provides more information on the cities of Bend, Sisters, Redmond, Sunriver, LaPine, Three Rivers South, and Deschutes County . Feel free to utilize the Property Search tool to look at your next potential home. Or you can sign up for a personalized Home Hunter service that will automatically find listings for you that meet your own personal criteria.

My Articles of Interest page provides information on how Oregon property taxes are calculated, and it also provides the Oregon property tax rates per $1,000 of assessed value. (Normally assessed value is only about half of market value!) If you are relocating to Central Oregon from other states, you will probably find our property taxes a pleasant surprise. And if you didn't know, Oregon has no sales taxes! None! Nada!

What Bend Oregon Offers

Bend Oregon has picture-perfect surroundings. Clean air and water, and a delightful climate are only part of the allure. It's the lifestyle that makes living here so desirable! Voted "one of the top places to retire" in numerous national surveys, both young and old enjoy an active lifestyle here. Actually, the average age of newcomers is 39 years, certainly not retirement age for most of us.

Bend, a Vacation Paradise

"Oregon's Playground" Situated in Central Oregon, on the "sunny side" of the Cascade Mountains, Bend is a premier place to live and play. Public lands surround Bend, making it a gateway to mountain and high desert activities from Winter sports to hiking, biking, rock climbing, camping, canoeing, kayaking, rafting, horseback riding, hunting, and trophy fly fishing.

300 days of sunshine each year and only about 12" of precipitation! Yet Mt Bachelor, just a short drive from downtown, averages 370" of snow annually, providing world-class downhill and XC skiing, snowboarding, and snowshoeing.

And a Great Place to Live! Many who vacation here decide they want to stay! - Oregon's highest per capita ratio of restaurants! Likewise on per capita ratio of dogs! Also an abundance of art galleries, antique shops, festivals and concerts, for a nice balance of cultural delights. But for many, golf is the big allure. Even the President of the PGA of America, Brian Whitcomb, chooses to live in Bend! With 24 golf courses in the area, including 5 that rank in the "Top 100" in the nation, it's no wonder! Most courses are open three seasons, with a few open all four. Bend was rated one of the top 10 golf-home markets in the West by Golf Digest in June 2006.

And in May 2007 "Inc." magazine rated Bend as the 6th Best Small City in the USA for job growth!

And Bend's Economic Growth is about THREE TIMES the national growth rate!

It is no surprise that Bend Real Estate is "in demand"!

The word is out... Bend has been "discovered"! In March 2006 it was ranked in the Top Ten Communities in America in which to live! The Real Estate Forecast for the Bend area shows continued demand for 2008 and beyond. But price appreciation has slowed, making it a great time to buy in Central Oregon!

Resort Living

It's no wonder that, with all the amenities of the area, it would be natural to build resorts in Central Oregon. It's not easy to rezone land in Oregon for residential development, but there is a unique opportunity in our statutes that allow land to be designated for "Destination Resort" usage, meaning that most of the people who will occupy the area are to be either part time or short term, rather than full time residents requiring schools and other such infrastructure.

As a result, "Destination Resort" has become a buzzword in Central Oregon land development. We already had resort areas such as Sunriver and Black Butte Ranch, but lately several new ones have sprung up, including Eagle Crest, Pronghorn, Brasada Ranch, and more recently Caldera Springs, Tetherow, Remington Ranch, Hidden Canyon,, and soon to follow Thornburgh, Seven Peaks, and perhaps others.

Most offer beautiful vistas, golf, clubhouses, fine dining, and other recreational activities such as horseback riding, tennis, swimming, hiking, biking, and peaceful surroundings that one would expect in a resort setting.

While I have tried to provide as much useful information on this website as practical, I always welcome a phone call or an e-mail if you need more information or have any questions about Bend Real Estate, Central Oregon Real Estate, Redmond Real Estate, Sunriver Real Estate, and all of Deschutes County Real Estate.

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