Medford appreciation rates and housing market information

Medford housing market information

With 63,436 people, 26,310 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $269,569, Medford real estate prices are well above average cost compared to national prices.

single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Medford, accounting for 63.82% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Medford include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments (15.46%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments, or other small apartment buildings (12.48%), row houses and other attached homes (4.39%), and a few mobile homes or trailers (3.74%).

The most prevalent building size and type in Medford are three and four bedroom single-family detached homes. The city has a mixture of owners and renters, with 54.60% owning, and 40.95% renting.

There is a lot of housing in Medford built from 1970-1994, so parts of town may have that "Brady Bunch" look of homes popular in the '70s and early '80s, although some of these houses were built up through the early '90s as well. There is also a lot of housing in Medford built from 1940-1969 (29.70%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from 1995 and later (12.83%), and some were built from 1939 and earlier (12.83%).

Medford home appreciation rates

Appreciation rates for homes in Medford have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 100.61%, which ranks in the top 20% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Medford house appreciation rate of 10.06%.

Over the last year, Medford appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Medford's appreciation rate has been -9.62%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Medford were at -1.62%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -6.48%.

Notably, Medford's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.

Relative to Oregon, our data show that Medford's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 5% of the other cities and towns in Oregon.

One very important thing to keep in mind is that these are average appreciation rates for the city. Individual neighborhoods within Medford differ in their investment potential, sometimes by a great deal. Fortunately, you can use NeighborhoodScout to pinpoint the exact neighborhoods in Medford - or in any city or town - that have the best track record of real estate appreciation, by the latest quarter, the last year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, or even since 1990, to assist you in making the best Medford real estate investment or home purchase decisions.