About Jackson County, OR

I am curious if any brokers out there are having Open Houses today during the Super Bowl. I think it will be a great day for an open house since the game doesn'tstart until late afternoon. Hopefully buyers will use the time before the game to go check out a house or two. I would like to hear about other brokers strategies about open houses on holidays etc.

Ground hog day has come and gone, but D day for the first time home buyer credit is coming soon. D day stand for deadline day - April 30, 2010! Folks, that is $8000 to you from the government if you buy a house and you have not owned a house for 3 years, and $6500 is you have owned a home for more than 5 years. There are some limitations so go to www.ashlandprowest.com to read and or print out all of the information you might need.
But! there is more....interest rates are predicted to go up and this prediction is across the board from almost every economist around. What this means is that even if house prices were to go down, your payment might not, and your payment is a long term rate. So again, now is the time to buy if you can.

The Southern Oregon MLS just posted the real statistics for the Ashland and Medford area home sales. The data compares the time period of Nov. 1, 2008 to Jan 31, 2009 to Nov 1, 2009 to Jan 31, 2010. Below are some excerpts from their data:

The median sales price held steady in Ashland and East Medford.

There was a 68.7% increase in the number of sales.

The number of homes on the market in all of Jackson County dropped 17%.

The number of distressed sales made up 49.4% of the closed transactions

Extreme Makeover Home Edition Features Ashland Oregon Business. A Southern Oregon business will makes its debut on the ABC television show Extreme Makeover Home Edition.

Ashland Oregon business, Funagain Games, sells all kinds of games, but specializes in hobby and designer games. Last August, the business received an e-mail from a producer who works for Extreme Makeover Home Edition asking for help with one of their projects. The company agreed to help.

Funagain Games was told by the show's producers that the design team was building and decorating, not only a home, but also a community center for kids. The company donated a wide range of games for all ages, from easy to complex. "Altogether it was about $1,700 dollars worth of stuff," said, Funagain Games Manager Nick Medinger.

When approached in August 2009, the company was asked by the producers of Extreme Makeover Home Edition to not mention anything about the episode until they were contacted again by the producers. That contact came on Thursday.

The Extreme Makeover Home Edition episode featuring the Ashland Oregon Business will air Sunday, February 14th at 8 p.m.

These stats were compiled by Southern Oregon Multiple Listing Service

Everyone is interested in the distressed market not because you are happy about it but because it is what everybody seems to be talking about these days.

I have stats for Short Sales for Eagle Point, Short Sales for Medford, Short Sales Rogue River, Short Sales Central Point, Short Sales Ashland, Short Sales on every city in Jackson County. I will list a few but if you are interested in one I did not mention please call me 54184065732.

I also have stats for all the REO Foreclosures in Eagle Point, REO Foreclosures in Medford OR, REO Foreclosures in Ashland Oregon, REO Foreclosures in Central Point Oregon, REO Foreclosures in all of Southern Oregon/Jackson County.

Lets start with Ashland Oregon-All time frames will be from Nov1-Jan31- Ashland had 13 distressted sales-9 were REO Foreclosures and 4 were Short Sales.

Medford had 106 distressed sales-81 REO Foreclosures and 25 Short Sales Closed during that time span.

Central Point had 32 distressed sales-24 REO Foreclosures and 8 Short Sales Closed.

I have other areas in Jackson County as well feel free to contact Clason Whitney anytime for all your Realestate questions 541-840-6573.