Representing buyers and sellers across Bend with The Ladd Group at Cascade Hasson Sotheby's International Realty — Oregon's number one Sotheby's team, with more than a billion dollars in team closed sales across Central Oregon. Luxury residential, new construction, multifamily, and vacation properties, handled with the precision the market here now demands.
Real estate in Bend is no longer a regional market. The buyers are global, the inventory is tightening, and the work of representing a property well is more demanding than it has ever been. Both sides of the transaction now require a level of craft most agents aren't trained to deliver. That's the work.
A listing is a story before it is a price. Every property gets staged through the full Ladd Group infrastructure — in-house videography, luxury marketing, targeted social, a regional newsletter reaching tens of thousands, industry-leading YouTube presence. The work draws on years inside Bend's film and arts community — a real instinct for narrative, image, and the difference between a property listed and a property seen. In a moment when most marketing reads as machine-generated, the most valuable thing a listing can do is feel made by a person.
Most of what gets won or lost in a transaction is decided before the offer is written — the diligence, the positioning, the read of the other side. Twenty years inside real estate finance shapes how that preparation gets done. The negotiation is the moment it pays.
Buying in Bend now means moving through a tightening, layered market — luxury inventory, new construction releases, short-term-rental viability, multifamily plays. Every buyer gets the same disciplined read: what the property is actually worth, what the long hold looks like, where the leverage sits. The work is in the diligence and the discretion. The result is a purchase that holds up under scrutiny — at the close, and a decade from now.
Fifteen years in Bend. Father of three. DJ and producer. Board member. Real estate agent at Oregon's top Sotheby's team.
Fifteen-plus years in Bend. A wife of twenty-five years. Three kids raised here, the oldest now twenty. The roots are deep, the relationships are long, and the read on this place is built from living in it — not from a relocation brochure.
Twenty years inside real estate finance informs the practice — having advised clients through hundreds of transactions and negotiations across multiple market cycles in Central Oregon. The work at The Ladd Group continues that arc with the resources of Oregon's top Sotheby's team: more than a billion dollars in team closed sales, hundreds of five-star client reviews, and a track record that includes selling out more than twenty new construction and development projects from bare ground through final key turnover.
Outside of the practice, the picture widens — and bends back into the work. Years on the board of BendFilm, including a term as chair and a stretch as interim Executive Director, sharpened an instinct for story, image, and what holds an audience. Board work at HÚE, the Bend nonprofit using creative arts to support at-risk youth mental health, runs alongside. A second life as a DJ and producer at festival and club level keeps the ear trained on what feels designed by a person, not assembled by a machine.
Bend has evolved into a city with serious food, music, film, and arts culture sitting alongside its outdoor identity. The people who live here move between worlds the same way. Representing real estate in this market means understanding the place at that level — not from the outside, but from inside the life of it.