Steamboat Springs, CO Real Estate and Community Blog

Anyone who reads this Steamboat real estate blog knows I do a market report weekly listing all the Steamboat properties that sold and the Steamboat properties that went under contract. You can find specifics in those reports, but this is a chart that lists only the number of Steamboat area properties that sold and […]

Steamboat Springs Average and Median real estate prices continue to climb, contrary to all the national media headlines reporting how the national real estate prices are in a downward spiral.
In fact, year-over-year prices are up from May 2007 to May 2008:

Steamboat real estate Average Transaction prices increased 9%
Steamboat real estate Median Transaction prices increased […]

The F-Word—Foreclosure—is coming out of everyone’s mouth these days. But how about in Routt County? I can’t say we’ve been insulated here in Steamboat from the national housing mess. The amount of Steamboat real estate being sold has definitely slowed down, even though Steamboat real estate prices are up.
While […]

Some people who buy Steamboat Springs real estate want a ski-in, ski-out location. Others want a home on a golf course. Steamboat Springs has both types of real estate, although there are less than ten luxury homes available on golf courses in Steamboat Springs.
Steamboat Springs is a great place to purchase luxury […]

Steamboat Springs Real Estate sales are picking up after a slower first quarter.
Ten Steamboat Springs properties sold last week for an average sold price of $922,000. They ranged from two weekly timeshares to Steamboat ski condos to several Steamboat single family homes.
Eighteen Steamboat Springs properties went under contract/into escrow last week with an […]

Steamboat Springs, Colorado real estate prices were mixed for the first quarter of 2008 compared to the first quarter of 2007.

Steamboat Springs Ski Condos–Up 16%
Steamboat Springs Vacant land–Up 7%
Steamboat Springs Single Family Homes– Down 4%.

(All Steamboat real estate prices are up over first quarter 2006 data.) Click on image to enlarge.

Bruce Carta from Land Title created this graphic with Steamboat Springs and Routt County real estate data from 2005-2008.
In 2007, Intrawest purchased the Steamboat Ski Area which lead to an unusual amount of Steamboat real estate being purchased.  There were also at least five large dollar volume transactions–Ski Time Square, the Sheraton, Steamboat 700 land, […]

All the talk about the oil and gas boom of NW Colorado and the annexation of Steamboat 700 and Steamboat 360 got me thinking about Colorado resort town growth.
Here is the census data on the projected growth of four resort counties near Steamboat Springs, Colorado. (I’m not sure this data reflects the recent report […]

Colorado resort real estate markets like Steamboat Springs, CO, Jackson Hole, WY, Aspen, CO and Vail are experiencing the same thing– fewer real estate sales but higher average prices.
Resort markets have seen sales slow as credit tightens and buyers become more cautious. Second homes are not “must-have” purchases like primary homes, so second home […]

In spite of the national housing market reports, Steamboat Springs Real Estate is still very active. Last week, 22 Steamboat properties sold and 10 Steamboat properties went under contract.
The average price of Steamboat residential real estate was $754,527 and the average price of Steamboat vacant land was $1,075,862. (There was a $6,250,000 […]