Happy Holidays! Its time for a look at 2006 real estate figures for the north end of our valley including Crested Butte South, Crested Butte, Mt. Crested Butte and our rural areas. One thing is for sure, the market is not as "flat" as some might believe. True, we didn’t go as big as 2005′s record year, but 2006… Read More
Sunlight Ski Area Under Contract
December 11, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Sunlight ski area put under contract by Fla. developer By Julie Dunn Denver Post Staff Writer Article Last Updated:12/10/2006 12:35:32 AM MST Sunlight Mountain Resort in Glenwood Springs has finally gone under contract, its owners announced Saturday. The buyer is Exquisite Development of Destin, Fla. The deal includes 470 acres of skiable acres as well… Read More
Sun Valley, ID Market Insight
November 28, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Sun Valley, Idaho: Sales of high-priced homes hold their own Updated 11/28/2006 3:21 AM ET By Noelle Knox, USA TODAY During the real estate boom, home prices in the Sun Valley area spiked almost as high as the peak of nearby Bald Mountain. The median home price is now about as high as San Francisco’s…. Read More
Conde Nast Magazine Picks Crested Butte
November 24, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Conde Nast Traveler magazine readers rate best ski resorts Thursday, November 23, 2006The Associated Press NEW YORK — Resorts in Colorado snagged nine of the top 20 spots in Conde Nast Traveler magazine’s annual readers’ poll on the best places to ski, but five other states turned up on the list along with four resorts… Read More
Elevation Hotel and Spa Launched in Crested Butte
November 16, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Good day readers, Its officially out of the bag: Elevation Hotel and Spa – Crested Butte’s premier 4 star, luxury condo-hotel has launched sales of its condo-hotel residences. Featuring the best slopeside location (adjacent to both the Silver Queen and Red Lady high speed quads at the base of the ski mountain), a 11,000 square… Read More
Telluride’s Real Estate Market
November 16, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Good Day Readers, Interesting article published in the TELLURIDE WATCH today about Telluride’s real estate market. While we are not as big or as expensive as Telluride, our local Crested Butte market is starting to have similarities to our San Juan Mtn. neighbors. Crested Butte’s prices are rising so our total dollar volume is BIG but the number of transactions… Read More
Aspen’s Affordable Housing Woes
November 1, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Happy November! The snow was flying at the end of October in the Rocky Mountains. Recent storms put 5 feet of snow on the ground in ski resorts all over the place and Arapahoe Basin broke a 60 year old record by opening as early as they did! Preseason holiday bookings for Crested Butte are up over last year and… Read More
Crested Butte Real Estate Insider
October 20, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Good day, We haven’t hit Halloween and its snowing hard in Crested Butte right now. The mountains have been covered in the white stuff since early October. Friends have been up in the mountains skiing early season powder! WOW. In a town that thrives on winter tourism, the 2006-2007 season is looking quite promising. Pre-season bookings… Read More
Colorado’s Hobbyist Ski Area Owners
October 3, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Hello readers, Great article below from Rocky Mountain News regarding Colorado’s growing make up of privately owned ski areas. It was only 10 years ago that we thought the ski industry would be made up of a few multi-national, publically traded corporations. It seemed groups like Intrawest would just keep on swallowing up ski areas and the… Read More
Mueller’s Okemo Resort in Top 10
October 2, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Good morning readers, SKI Magazine just released this season’s reader rankings for ski resorts and the Mueller’s resort at Okemo, Vermont made the Top 10. Calling it the "Mueller Touch" and the "Okemo Difference", the evolution of services and capital improvements at the resort have delivered Okemo to high standards in overall quality and customer experience…. Read More
