Janell, 48
Całe mieszkanie | Grants Pass, OR, USA
Hi, my name is Janell. I am a 48-year old professional. I am listing a vacant apartment in Grants Pass. The monthly rent is $800 and the place is available immediately.
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One night in September 2020 still shapes this market. The Almeda Fire ran north from Ashland up the Highway 99 and Bear Creek corridor and destroyed roughly 2,500 homes across Talent and Phoenix, about 1,500 of them manufactured homes in some 19 mobile home parks. Five years on only a few hundred have been rebuilt, and Medford absorbed most of the displaced demand, which is why rents here rose while much of the West flattened. Roomster lists 1 apartments for rent around Medford, across downtown, West and Southwest Medford and the East Medford foothills.
A studio averages about $1,150, a one-bedroom near $1,300 and a two-bedroom around $1,500, which still sits below the national two-bedroom average of $1,640. The number worth paying attention to is the spread rather than the average: one-bedroom listings run all the way from $895 to $1,800, so condition and location move the price far more than size does. You can find one-bedrooms under $1,100 a month in West Medford, Southwest Medford and the older blocks near downtown.
Yes, Oregon caps increases statewide, and the figure changes each year. The limit is the lesser of 10 percent or 7 percent plus inflation, which the Department of Administrative Services set at 9.5 percent for 2026, and buildings under 15 years old are exempt. The provision that matters most in this valley is a separate one: manufactured home parks with more than 30 spaces are capped at 6 percent. Given how much of the Rogue Valley's affordable housing is park-based, and how much of it burned in 2020, that tighter limit is worth knowing about.
West Medford and Southwest Medford, on the tree-lined blocks near Bear Creek Park and Stewart Meadows, hold the older stock and the lowest asking rents, along with the streets immediately around downtown. The premium sits in East Medford, where the newer homes climb toward the Roxy Ann Peak foothills for the valley views. One local caution: Phoenix and Talent, just south along Highway 99, used to be the cheap alternative to Medford and are not yet, because so much of their housing was lost in the Almeda Fire.
Yes. RVTD operates six routes and around 292 stops out of Front Street Station downtown, reaching Ashland, Central Point, Talent, Phoenix, White City and Jacksonville, so an apartment near a route covers most of the valley without a car. For drivers, Interstate 5 runs straight through the city, Highway 99 and the Bear Creek corridor carry you south toward Ashland and Highway 62 north toward White City. Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport sits on the north side of town.
Oregon does not cap what a landlord may collect, so the amount is a matter of the written agreement, but the accounting rules are strict and worth knowing. Whatever you pay must be accounted for and any refund returned within 31 days of the tenancy ending, with a written statement of deductions. If a landlord holds your last month's rent as a deposit, that has to be identified as a deposit rather than quietly treated as prepaid rent. In the older West Medford stock, ask separately whether cooling is included in the rent.
