Steamboat Springs, CO Real Estate and Community Blog

Steamboat Springs keeps adding more non-stop flights to Hayden’s Yampa Valley Regional Airport each winter. This year, we’ll see Saturday flights from JFK, La Guardia and Newark bringing more New York skiers to Steamboat Springs than ever before.
We have a brand-new airport terminal in Hayden, CO which takes a fraction of the time to […]

Don’t miss the activities planned around the 4th of July! Come to Steamboat!
Steamboat is the place to be next weekend for lots of activities you won’t see any where else in the USA.
Watch cowboys herd cattle through town with a real cattle drive down Lincoln Avenue (our Main Street), see more than 50 different […]

Steamboat real estate sales increased 132% over May,2006.

Steamboat Springs real estate Highlights for May 2007:

Downtown Steamboat Springs’ Average real estate sales price = $800,548.00 up from $446,580.00 (5/06)
Steamboat’s Mountain area Average real estate sales price = $1,049,000.00 up from $460,591.00 (5/06)
May 06 - last year only 3 Steamboat […]

If you bought real estate on the mountain before January 1, 2007, it is likely that your property has appreciated 40% in only six months. Mountain condominiums especially have seen this mind-boggling appreciation.
Why are prices so high?
Several reasons account for the dramatic increase:

Intrawest announced they were buying the ski mountain late December, 2006
The Base […]

In a recent memo, the US Tax Court denied a 1031 exchange treatment on a vacation home that was not strictly used for investment purposes. The sellers purchased it in anticipation of the property appreciating but used it as a residence for more than 14 days.
http://www.webcpa.com/article.cfm?articleid=24413
If you are a Steamboat Springs, CO, homeowner […]