Steamboat Springs, CO Real Estate and Community Blog

In case you missed it among all the bad real estate press, $100,000,000 in Steamboat Springs real estate sold last month (June 2008).
Yes, the Steamboat Springs real estate market is slower this year. Heck, over $1.5 billion in real estate sold in 2007–an all time record. It was bound to be slower this […]

The Steamboat real estate market continues to defy the national housing market’s doom-and-gloom headlines. Prices from June 2007 to June 2008 are up over 6%. In fact,

The Average Transaction Price for Steamboat Springs real estate is reported to be $719,799 a 6.25% increase over the average transaction price for the same time YTD last […]

Steamboat Springs Real Estate Week in Review:
Last week, 4 Steamboat Springs area properties closed and 7 went under contract.
If you would like more information or are interested in buying or selling Steamboat Springs real estate, contact me.
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The Yampa River in Steamboat is raging from all the snow melt. Kayakers are having a field day at the C Hole by the new Steamboat Bud Werner Library, and long time locals are saying they have never seen the water so high in Routt County.
Get ready for some great summer tubing after the […]

Q: Why do people live in Steamboat Springs and work somewhere else?
A: Because they can.
Did you know that almost 10% of Steamboat Springs’ work force do not work in Steamboat Springs? They work in places like Chicago, New York, Australia, or any other location with internet access and cell phone coverage. With the flexibility to […]

Although only four Steamboat properties closed last week, twelve properties went under contract-including a $9,500,000 ranch in South Valley.

Week Ending
# Closed Steamboat Properties
# Steamboat Properties Under Contract

4/12/08-4/18/08
9
8

4/19-4/25
8
5

4/26-5/3
22
10

5/4-5/10
4
12

Here’s a list of Steamboat real estate sold the week of April 20-April 27th:
Three Steamboat Springs real estate residential units sold:

North Routt home on Golden Tides Place sold for $425,000
Steamboat ski condo at Ptarmigan House sold for $825,000
Steamboat ski condo at Emerald Lodge in Trappeurs Crossing sold for $965,000

Edgemont, the newest ski-in, ski-out luxury real estate development in Steamboat Springs had a great reservation response over the last few weeks. Now they’ve shifted gears to supplying the details so Edgemont reservation holders can make decisions about floor plans, number of bedrooms, and finishes.
It’s not too late to reserve a unit. Half the […]

1.  Build a smaller home. Bigger homes use more resources. Rooms that aren’t used often, like formal living rooms or extra bedrooms, require heating and cooling year round. Design multi-use rooms instead of single purpose rooms that are used a few days a year.

2.  Take advantage of Steamboat’s sunny days. Build homes […]

Did you hear the one about the tourist who wanted to know where he could get one of those pretty red pine trees to take back home? If you haven’t heard it, you don’t live in Colorado.
Colorado is being infested with mountain pine beetles that turn lodgepole pines from a healthy green to a pretty […]