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Whew, 2009 is finally over!  It was not a wonderful year for real estate in Summit County Colorado, no matter which town you live in.  I am going to post activity reports here for several condo complexes and subdivisions over the next few weeks, and will start with The Reserve.
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There has been a lot of speculation as to how global warming will affect the ski business.  I first heard about the possiblity from Auden Schendler who is the Director of Sustainability for Aspen Ski Company.  He spoke at the Rocky Mountain Resort Association meeting I attended in Sun Valley Idaho, in January, 2007.  Aspen, […]

One of my favorite groups in Summit County is the Over the Hill Gang.  You don’t even have to be over the hill to join them, as they accept members as young as 45.   They ski at Copper Mountain four days a week with a ski school guide.  That fact that OHG members are with guides becomes […]

July was the best month for real estate sales that we have seen so far this year. We were only down 23% from 2008! My frame of reference has certainly changed. Of course, last year at this time we were down by 55% from the year prior. Year to date, we are doing about 30% of the business we were doing in 2007; not good! But a glimmer of hope is better than what we have been seeing this last year. The rest of the country seems to have just begun the upswing, but I don’t think we can say we have turned the corner yet.

One my clients sent me a copy of an article in the New York Times, telling how the national real estate market may have hit bottom. With it was a note from him saying “Is the end in sight?” We just put his house under contract recently. I know he is thinking that he sold at the bottom of the market. Strangely, he saw this coming but neither one of us thought he would get caught in it, or that it would be as bad as it was.

In the last two weeks I have had offers on four listings and three of them are now under contract. Both Buyers and Sellers had to be flexible to get it done, and in those three cases, they were. I am told I have another offer coming in tomorrow on another listing, so we definitely are seeing an upswing in Buyers. Is the end in sight? Perhaps……

I have no intention for this blog to become a political forum, but I would like those of you who have employer sponsored health insurance to know how the other half lives when it comes to getting our own insurance.
I used to have a “real job”, working for a large department store chain.  They offered me […]