Archive for the 'Summit County Real Estate' Category

Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it?   It is!  But if sales had been any less than they were last year, we would have really been in a world of hurt.  In February 2009, we had just 28 residential real estate sales in all of Summit County Colorado!  Compare that to 103 in February of 2008 and 122 […]

To most of the people looking on our website for real estate in Summit County, Colorado, photos are of prime importance. The majority of our Buyers are from elsewhere, and they do their preliminary research online. We take care that our listings have good photos. Meredith, our marketing manager, will often straighten up prior to taking photographs so that the home will present as well as possible. Here you see some before and after photos of a studio that was staged by a client of ours. She did a great job, especially considering it was only a one room condo.

The importance of good photos was brought home to me today as I was looking through a New Zealand real estate website seeing what the price of real estate is there. I was born there, and still have a lot of family there. We go back frequently, and as we get older we think it would be nice to have a place there that my sister and brother and I could take turns using when we are off season here.

I found a home that at first glance looked good for the money, but as I looked through the photos, I couldn’t help but wonder why the Listing Broker would post some of them online! The boy’s bedroom is obviously a teenager’s bedroom, with the….

Today a Lagoon homeowner contacted me, asking for information about what her condo might be worth in today’s market.  She has a large, two bedroom unit and she wondered about the feasibility of turning her dining area into a bedroom as some other owners have done.  A three bedroom condo is always worth more than a […]

56.7% of residential properties sold in 2009 were on the market over 120 days. 15% actually sold in the first 30 days. (some of these may have been sold before they were actually listed)
Average list to sales price ratio is 96.2% if selling within the first 30 days.  It drops to 94.2% from 31 to […]

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.
Click the link The Reserve at […]