Bend's Real Estate Market is heating up quickly in 2012!
Prices are rising once again, inventory is falling, and competition for homes is back.
TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR HOME SEARCH- GET YOUR OWN MLS PORTAL!
A portal is your own MLS page, where the MLS searches for and places listings that match YOUR criteria, and ONLY your criteria, so you don't have to look through the whole MLS. While Zillow and Trulia often contain out of date listings and data, your portal will be on the REAL MLS system, and will search it each and every day against the criteria YOU set! And you can change the criteria any time.
TO GET YOUR OWN BEND MLS PORTAL AT NO COST,
Simply email your basic criteria to Linda at Gardnerteam@Bendcable.com , which can include the following and more:
-Area you are interested in (Bend, Redmond, Sisters, Sunriver)
-IF Bend, is there a part of town you want to specify? (NW [the area most tourists are familiar with], SW, NE, SE)
- price range (try to keep the range no larger than $150,000, or you might get too many matches to be useful)
- minimum number of bedrooms and bathrooms
- minimum and/or maximum square footage
- minimum lot size if important
- view type if important (river, cascades, other mountain . . .)
- anything else you might require, such as the age of the home, minimum garage size, single level only or a master bedroom on the main level only, proximity to somewhere you love (downtown, the river, the Old Mill, etc...), gas for cooking and heat, etc...
Once you have your own MLS portal, you will be ahead of everyone, including most agents, as you get to see new listings and price changes THE DAY THEY HAPPEN! It's the best way by far to find EXACTLY the home you want!
 * Looking for Bend homes? Click on the Listings Player to Enlarge and Search all of our listings! * We have also provided a tool to view all of Deschutes County's/ Bend MLS listings- just click on the FIND button above! * Expert advice? No web site can take the place of a top Bend Realtor. Contact Us with confidence- your privacy WILL be respected. You can go to our "ASK ANYTHING!" page, under the INFO button, and just shoot any Bend real estate related question, and we'll email you right back! * We want to be YOUR Bend real estate agents. As your trusted real estate partners, we will help you find the best home in your area within YOUR price range. * Together we will sell your home, for as much as the Bend Real Estate market will bear, and as quickly as possible. * Want to know what the heck people in our business are talking about? Under INFO you will find a real estate dictionary, to get you in the know about your most important investment. * Curious about mortgages? We have TWO Mortgage Calculators here, an on site JAVA based one, AND a FREE download for the TripleCalc Mortgage Calculator, a $30 value! It allows you to compare three different loans at once, all on your desktop. It's our gift to you, and you may feel free to share it with friends. You'll find it under the INFO button. * As top Bend, Redmond and Sunriver real estate agents, we have the experience and track record you are looking for. PLEASE, LET US HELP find your Bend Home!
THANKS FOR YOUR BUSINESS!- THE GARDNER TEAM
 Here On our Bend Real Estate Site, You'll Find Information on Bend, Redmond, Prineville, LaPine, and Sunriver, Oregon Properties! In contrast to the many Bend real estate agents who moved here during the boom years of 2004-2006 to cash in on the hot market and have just as quickly left town looking for the "next Boomtown", we have lived in Central Oregon since 1990, and have been practicing Bend Real Estate since 1992. This is not a temporary business for us, nor a get rich quick scheme. We are investors in the Bend Real Estate market, and have been for some time. We have seen Bend Real Estate agents treat their clients as numbers, and since we can remember being treated that way as investors, we made it our goal to be different. We know the area better than the vast majority of Bend Realtors, because we have been here and called the area Home for a long time. And we have no intention of leaving to find the "next hot market". This is where we live. And Bend Real Estate is what we do. |  | | | Thom, Linda, Tom | |
The Gardner Team provides professional services to customers and clients to facilitate their home purchases and home sales. We are successful because we prospect continually on your behalf, and because constantly strive to improve ourselves, what we do, and how we do it. We do the little things that 90% of our colleagues don't, such as going to each and EVERY MLS weekly meeting, because that is where the real dealmakers are. Less than 100 of the more than 1000 agents here go at all. We concentrate on Quality Service to our customers and clients. We treat our clients' interests as if they were our own, and we provide service to our customers as we would wish to receive ourselves. We will always be the best at what we do! We focus all of our energy and resources with uncompromising honesty and integrity toward meeting the needs of our clients. WE PRACTICE WHAT WE PREACH! We invest in real estate and rental homes and have for over 30 years.
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Pricing >Value Added Features A recent study conducted by the National Center for Real Estate Research evaluated the features of a home based on what each contributes to the selling price.
According to the study, the feature that can most dramatically increase the value of a home is an additional full bathroom, upping the selling price by a remarkable 24 percent. Installing an extra half-bath can add 15 percent to the selling price. A garage, a fireplace and a central air conditioning unit each add a little more than 12 percent to the home's market value. A laundry room located on the main floor of the home increases its value by 15 percent, while a basement laundry room can potentially reduce the home's overall value. Homes with raised or vaulted ceilings sell for 6.2 percent more than identical homes with standard ceilings. Each extra bedroom increases the price by 4.1 percent. A family room adds 7.3 percent, and a dining room is worth 6.2 percent. A view of the water adds 7.8 percent, but a golf course view is better at 8.1 percent. A home built on the waterfront is worth 18 percent more than the same home in a landlocked location.
Every real estate market is different, so consult your real estate agent regarding the resale value of your home's special features.
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Who is the world's richest living person?
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William H. Gates, III, Chairman of Microsoft Corporation, whose wealth was estimated at $46.6 billion in 2004.
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