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Award Recipients | Oregon Association of REALTORS®

A Well-Deserved Award

by on 23 October 2019in Howard Friedman CCIM

Bend REALTOR® Wins 2019 Distinguished Service Award

I would like to take this opportunity to report on an exceptional individual in our real estate community, who, with full disclosure, happens to be my brother.

Lester Friedman, Broker with Coldwell Banker Bain, was recently awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Oregon Association of REALTORS®, along with fellow REALTOR® Don Livingood of Medford. The award has been presented to just 30 REALTORS® since 1993, and since that time only four Central Oregon recipients have been chosen. Lester joins local REALTORS® Everett Turner, Mike Kozak and Michael Hoover in that prestigious DSA club.

The OAR Distinguished Service Award (DSA) was established in 1993 to recognize outstanding service and contributions to the Association over a period of at least 10 years. Criteria for the award includes service in areas such as committee membership, committee leadership, and service as a state director, officer or National Association of REALTORS® director. Lester is a member of the Central Oregon Association of REALTORS® and has been active in residential and commercial transactions and education for over 20 years. In 2012, Lester was also awarded the Central Oregon Association of REALTORS® REALTOR® of the Year (ROTY) award. The Local ROTY program is designed to recognize a REALTOR® member of each Local Association/Board in Oregon who has provided outstanding service to the REALTOR® organizations (local, state and national), their profession, and their community primarily during the previous 18 months. According to the DSA selection criteria, no recipient of the ROTY award may be eligible for the Distinguished Service Award until five years have elapsed from their ROTY award. Lester is very well respected by his peers, and provides unparalleled access to his wealth of knowledge about all things real estate related.

Lester has also been active at the state and national levels for real estate since being licensed in 1999. He has been a voice for real estate on the Political Affairs Committee, ROTY Committee and Professional Development Committee. For more than ten years, he has served as a State Director. Lester is very active in the local community as well, serving on the Central Oregon Community College Budget Committee, the Bend Chief’s Citizen’s Advisory Committee and has been a Mt. Bachelor Mountain Ambassador for many years, assisting guests with a top notch experience while visiting the mountain to ski or snowboard. Lester was selected as the recipient of the 2019 OAR Distinguished Service Award by the REALTOR® of the Year Committee, based on his outstanding legacy of work in his local, state, and national REALTOR® communities. Congratulations, Lester and thanks for all you do in the community and our profession!

Howard Friedman, CCIM, is a Partner and Managing Principal Broker at Compass Commercial. He joined the firm in 1999.

Cascade Village Shopping Center

Navigating Economic Trends Feature Article

by on 20 March 2019in Howard Friedman CCIM

Cathy Carroll of the Bend Magazine wrote an article highlighting Compass Points®, the quarterly market report and broker Howard Friedman’s forecast for 2019. Here’s an excerpt from the article.

“As national media continues hailing Bend as one of the top places to live and work, Compass Commercial Real Estate Services wrapped up 2018 as its best year in the company’s twenty-year history. Factoring the current state of the economy, along with all indicators pointing to a strong commercial real estate market, they anticipate another great finish in 2019.

Market data from the national level and locally in Central Oregon tells a compelling story. Fourth-quarter economic reports from the U.S. Commerce Department revealed a 2017 growth rate of 2.6 percent, continuing one of the longest periods of economic expansion in U.S. history.

The Q4 2018 Compass Points® market report forecast was correct. ‘We’d predicted this trajectory would energize our ability to deliver the results you can expect from a team that has many professional accreditations, decades of experience and industry knowledge, and is dedicated to serving the needs of each client,’ said Howard Friedman, partner and the managing principal broker for Compass Commercial.”

To read the full article, click here.

Thinking of starting a restaurant in Bend, Oregon? Be sure to know your FFEs and SDCs…

by on 26 November 2012in Howard Friedman CCIM

By Howard Friedman, CCIM

The Firehall buildingThe Bend restaurant scene is an ever-evolving and ever-changing animal. Being one of the toughest businesses to run and one of the highest turnover industries in the nation, Bend is also no stranger to restaurant ownership changes.

Of the almost 60 food and beverage businesses in the downtown core, there are currently a number of vacant or ‘quietly for sale’ establishments available. But the good news is the apparent interest and impending occupancy of several of these, with some promising new concepts to add to the diverse selection of dining choices that we currently have.

By Howard Friedman, CCIM The Bend restaurant scene is an ever-evolving and ever-changing animal. Being one of the toughest businesses to run and one of the highest turnover industries in the nation, Bend is also no stranger to restaurant ownership changes. Of the almost 60 food and beverage businesses in the downtown core, there are…