At the beginning of every year, we like to send a newsletter to our mailing list reviewing the previous year’s market activity and our plan for the new year. Below is the letter we recently sent to our mailing list of almost 500 people along with a link to some Ashland and Rogue Valley market [...]

Thank you to all for your overwhelming response to our request for volunteers to sponsor a Head Start family. As a result of your caring contributions and support, all families have been sponsored! Jo Ann Manzone, Head Start, and the Barbara Allen Group send you all our deepest thanks and warm wishes for the holiday [...]

Dear Family and Friends, As the holidays come closer, we think of those who are less fortunate as us. We pay particular attention to our local chapter of Head Start. Here is a program that targets very young children from less advantaged families and finds ways to help these kids not fall behind in their [...]

Ashland shines over the holidys with its annual festival of lights! Each year on the Friday after Thanksgiving, all of the downtown botiques, restaurants and businesses turn on their holiday charm with a light festival and parade. Take a look at our footage from the 2010 festival! For more information about Ashland’s winter festivities, visit [...]

We spoke with Linda Read, Senior Mortgage Banker at Pacific Residential Mortgage, and she informed us that investor appetite for Jumbo loans has really opened up! We are seeing rates for a 30 year fixed rates in the mid 4’s for loans under 1.5M and 7 year fixed rates in the mid 3’s! Also investors are relaxing [...]

Martin M Majkut is in his first season as music director and conductor of the Rogue Valley Symphony. Mr. Majkut and the symphony perform at Southern Oregon University in Ashland as well as at the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater in Medford and the Performing Arts Center in Grants Pass. They perform all over the Rogue [...]

Linda Read, Sr. Mortgage Banker at Pacific Residential Mortgage in Ashland and Medford, is a great friend of ours who contributes to our blog regularly. See what she has to say about interest rates and downpayments! Is it better to buy a home now with little or no down payment OR save a bigger down payment and buy later?? [...]

I recently interviewed Janet Troy, Director of Development at Ashland Community Hospital, about why she chose to move to Ashland. This is what she had to say: Janet saw the Foundation job posted for Ashland Community Hospital and applied.  “I hadn’t been to Ashland before but fell in love with the area during the interview [...]

Jim and I stopped into Yogurt on the Rox during Ashland’s First Friday Art Walk this past week and enjoyed a fresh and yummy dish of yogurt. Chris DeSilva, the owner, has done a gorgeous job designing and decorating his business with Ashland artists Miles Frode and Dillon Tellesen’s paintings and wall murals. He is [...]

Extreme Makeover Home Edition is filming in Oregon! This popular television series brings communities together as hundreds of people donate time and money to build one lucky family a new home. Today was surprise day for the parents of two autistic children who have devoted their lives to helping their Medford and Rogue Valley community. [...]