Jan 10, 2012
Summit County Sales Volume, 1980-2011
Jan 10, 2012
2011 Summit County Real Estate Market In Review
HOME SALES were up in Summit County by 22% and the average sold price was down 11%. Below are the results by area:
- Breckenridge: sales up 32%, average price down 12%
- Dillon: sales up 21%, average price down 14%
- Frisco: sales up 38%, average price down 19%
- Silverthorne: sales were the same as in 2010, average price down 18%
CONDO SALES were up in Summit County by 15% and the average sold price was down 5%. Below are the results by area:
- Breckenridge: sales up 38%, average price increased 12%
- Dillon: sales up 27%, average price increased 4%
- Copper Mountain: sales were flat, average price down 13%
- Frisco: sales increased by 5 units and average price was flat compared to 2010
- Keystone: sales were down 12%, average price down 8%
VACANT LAND SALES were up down in Summit County by 6% and the average sold price was down 10%. Below are the results by area:
- South End of Summit County had 57 sales in 2011 compared with 57 in 2010 and an average sold price decrease of 11%
- North End of Summit County had an 18% drop in sales and the average price dropped 7.6%
Keystone resort, Breckenridge, Frisco, Dillon and Silverthorne are all high on the list of summer and winter weekend destinations for residents of Denver and the rest of the Front Range. But some people avoid Summit County on the weekends because of the frequent traffic jams on Interstate 70 heading up to the Eisenhower Tunnel. These jams continue off and on the entire length of the Interstate 70 corridor through Georgetown and Idaho Springs.
The solution? Owning a second home in the mountains where one can spend the nights without hassling with a hotel room. Get up a bit early Monday morning, shower and head over the hill to work.
To learn more about real estate - and how to best negotiate the purchase and ownership of second home real estate in the Colorado mountains - contact Re/Max Properties of the Summit in Keystone at (970) 513-0404.
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August 4th and 5th, 2012, River Run at Keystone
Keystone brings the wonders of Appalachia to the Rockies. Down-home cooking, frothy flavors and mountain-music are just a piece of the pie. In a whirlwind of hillbilly luxuries, folks gather while microbreweries from Colorado and beyond showcase their unique blends of hops and barleys. Live music rocks out on 3 stages. Don’t miss the FREE family Kidzone including inflatable’s, kids crafts and kids entertainment
Jan 9, 2011
Hunting Condo in Keystone CO Real Estate
Most people think of Keystone Colorado real estate as home base for Summit County’s world-class skiing and riding, mountain biking, golf, and fly-fishing. Did you also know that there are more elk in Colorado than anywhere in the world? Hunters, get ready to enjoy Colorado hunting from easy vacation real estate in Keystone Colorado’s River Run Village, Lakeside Village, Ski Tip Ranch or North or East Keystone Colorado homes.
In the backyard of the Arapahoe and White River National Forest, Keystone real estate offers memorable vacation experiences summer, fall, winter, and spring. Just beyond the homes in Keystone CO is some of the best Colorado hunting in the high desert of Northwest Colorado. Large herds of mule deer, elk, and pronghorn antelope frequent the rolling sage hills, draws, and canyons of fine private ranches and public lands. Residents of Colorado pay much lower license fees, i.e. mountain goat, bighorn sheep and moose license is $1,761 for out-of-state hunters and only $251 for residents of Keystone homes in Summit County.
Over the years while owning Keystone CO real estate, hunters find an infinite number of exciting hunts within two hours—from Kremmling to Fairplay to Rifle and in between. Here’s a look at some options. The White River Game Management Unit offers milder weather during the 1st hunt at lower elevations at 5,300 feet in the sage brush near Rifle progressing to oak brush and mountain brush, aspen, evergreen and alpine tundra. Later in the season 4X4s and a good outfitter can pack your party off-road. (GMU 12, 23, 24, 25, 26, 33, 34, 231)
Eagle River Valley units are bordered by the Colorado River, the Gore Range, the Red Table Mountains, and the continental Divide. Beginning at 6,000 feet with sagebrush and pinon to 14,000 feet, the weather can vary tremendously, especially in the high country. (GMU 35, 36, 44, 45)
Middle Park is surrounded by the Continental Divide and the Gore Range Divide and includes lots of steep terrain with rapidly changing weather. The lower elevations are private lands and the remaining two-thirds public. Horses and pack animals are recommended for remote tracts and for Wilderness Areas. This section is an easy getaway for hunters from the Denver area and can be overhunted. (GMU 18, 27, 28, 37, 181, 371)
For the big game hunt, consider hiring an outfitter to help improve the chances of success. Depending on the goals of the hunter, outfitters direct the parties to different spots. Hunters wanting a 4-point or better bull elk will hunt different territory than those seeking a cow elk for a freezer full of meat. Hunters in the Colorado must either pack out their own game or hire a licensed outfitter to care for the animal.
RE/MAX Properties of the Summit at Keystone in the River Run Village offers expert service and will help you find your own vacation home or hunting cabin in the area. Call 1 (866) 513-0404 or (970) 513-0404 for assistance.
In 2008, the historic Ski Tip Lodge and its 5-star restaurant was chosen by Colorado’s 5280 magazine as the “Most Romantic Getaway” and “Best Place to Pop the Question.” The highly acclaimed Ski Tip Lodge is located in the secluded neighborhoods of East Keystone, Colorado real estate—just minutes from River Run Village and the new River Run Gondola.
Real estate in East Keystone includes award-winning golf at Keystone Ranch Golf Course and its enclave of Rocky Mountain Keystone luxury homes, the Ski Tip Ranch Condominiums, and Keystone CO real estate in River Meadows, Trappers Crossing, and the new Settler’s Creek subdivisions.
Ski Tip Lodge & Restaurant features award-winning “continental American cuisine and French techniques and influences.” Dedicated staff prepares six-course prix-fixe meals priced at $90 as well as a rotating menu for variety. An extensive wine list features over 500 choices. Log-lined great rooms with large fireplaces complement 10 elegant but rustic guest rooms that are priced from $89 to $269 a night. Overlooking a beautiful pond with seasonal wildflowers, the charming ambience ensures a memorable evening for any special occasion.
In the 1880s, the location of the bed and breakfast was simply a stagecoach stop. Keystone Resort founders Max and Edna Dercum in the 1940s turned a homestead into the first Colorado ski resort. To enhance the “ski tip” theme, the Dercums cut the tips from vintage downhill skis and installed them as doorknobs. They filled the guest rooms with Old World comfort.
Set midst breathtaking wetlands of the Snake River and surrounded by the Arapahoe and White River national forests, the East Keystone neighborhoods are also near great fishing, Nordic skiing, hiking, and biking trails, and the ski-shuttle stop. Ski Tip Ranch is in close proximity to numerous additional fine restaurants, retail shops, and all the activities and festivities of Keystone Resort in Colorado.
Built in 2001, the 50 upscale Ski Tip Ranch Condominiums feature a lavish design with great mountain views. The development hosts tennis courts and two outdoor hot tubs, kitchens with breakfast bars, dining rooms, vaulted ceilings, windows with wooded mountain views, gas fireplaces.
Located in a pristine site bordering Snake River wetlands, River Meadows at Ski Tip is a collection of 12 duplexes in addition to two detached single-family residences with three basic floor plans, each featuring 3 or 4 bedrooms with full baths, and 1- or 2-car garages.
The Trappers Crossing townhome community features luxuriously spacious mountain-style homes (1-, 2, and 4-bedroom, multi-level) with private entrances and decks, flagstone entryways, gourmet kitchens, balconies, an outdoor pool, an outdoor hot tub, parking, and a 24-Hour Front Desk.
Settlers Creek consists of 3-plex and 4-plex buildings in the woods featuring large gourmet kitchens, granite countertops, and stainless steel appliances, garages. Many of these gorgeous residences have multiple decks on the front of the townhome and on-grade patios on the back, bringing the great outdoors inside.
Please don’t hesitate to contact RE/MAX Properties of the Summit at Keystone in River Run Village—the County’s #1 brokerage—at (866) 513-0404 or (970) 513-0404 for information on resort real estate.
Keystone Colorado’s gondola is now open for the season. Come ride the panoramic enclosed lift up to the mountain top to enjoy incredible views of Keystone, and the Dillon valley; mountain bike; hike; picnic; or go snow tubing.
That’s right - for the first time ever Keystone Colorado mountain resort is offering summer snow tubing on top of the mountain. Visitors to Keystone Resort can slide down the tubing hill on the snow with two lanes of snow. The tubing adventure is open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 to 2:30 p.m.—while the snow lasts. Tubing sessions last for one hour and guests can take an unlimited number of runs for $25 per person. Tickets are available at the ticket window in River Run Village, and the price includes a gondola ride to the top of the mountain. Visitors to Keystone Resort are encouraged to play on the snow and then participate in the numerous summer activities Keystone offers.
While in Keystone visit Re/Max Properties of the Summit in Expedition Station at River Run Village to learn how you can own a part of the Colorado mountains – for both summer and winter adventures and activities. Re/Max Properties of the Summit is located at 135 Dercum Drive right next to the Keystone playground; or you can call us at (970) 513-0404.
Oct 31, 2008
The Sanctuary at Keystone Real Estate
Perched high in the aspen groves north of Keystone Colorado real estate and ski villages, the lush new development at The Sanctuary at Keystone beckons the adventurer to refined but casual mountain living. This exclusive Keystone CO real estate descends right to the foot of the Keystone Ski Resort slopes—on skis or via shuttle—where the new River Run Gondola reaches the top of vast outback bowls. (The Walsh Group Keystone real-estate offices are located in Expedition Station at River Run Village.)
The luxury homes overlooking Keystone are bounded by the natural wetlands of the Snake River and the White River National Forest. Most of these Keystone CO homes boast creek-side home sites, right across the mountain from illuminated night views of the ski slopes.
Buyers are happy to see the price per square foot is in between $320 and $442 —very affordable for a luxurious Summit County vacation homes. The Sanctuary at Keystone includes duplexes, triplexes and single-family residences on the protected 15-acre site.
The Sanctuary at Keystone exteriors reflect the Rocky Mountain environs with their rough-hewn timbers and clinking, dry stacked stone, and custom wood doors with heavy bronze hardware. The open floor plans underscore the immensity of the mountain majesty with their large private decks and oversized glass doors that open to the unrestricted marvel of the outdoors. Residents are surrounded with fine artisanship including hand-set natural stone, raised hearth stone fireplace with timber mantels, and hand-hewn rustic wood floors. Of course, each home features the highest quality appliances, granite slab countertops, radiant in-floor heating, attached heated garage, knotty alder cabinetry and much more.
About five minutes away is the links-style golf challenge at The Ranch Golf Course. Designed by Robert Trent Jones, the 4-star golf course is also a certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary and ranks in The Golf Digest Places to Play. Besides top-notch shopping and renowned restaurants, the resort offers opportunities for hiking, mountain biking, cross-country skiing, ice skating, paddle boating, canoeing, sailing, tennis, white-water rafting, snow shoeing and a long list of festivals and events.
Convenient to Denver, Denver International Airport, and city amenities along the Front Range, The Sanctuary is located a little over an hour west on Interstate 70. Take Highway 6 east past the Convention Center. After passing the traffic signal at the fire station, turn left on Caravelle.
Contact Re/Max Properties of the Summit at our Keystone office in River Run (866) 513-0404 or (970) 513-0404 for assistance.
Oct 24, 2008
Keystone CO Homes Win Big at Parade of Homes
Congratulations to all the builders, designers, and owners of the spectacular 2008 homes in Keystone and Summit County’s Parade of Homes. However, the fabulous Keystone CO real estate home on Wolf Rock really got the attention of this year’s attendees! Ingenious craftsmanship by architects, designers, and artisans—accented with state-of-the-art technology—went into this breathtaking Keystone real estate property.
The fine example of premier mountain living in Keystone Colorado real estate make us proud that The Walsh Group of RE/MAX Properties of the Summit (located in Expedition Station in Keystone’s River Run Village) is able to boast that this winning Parade of Homes property is OUR listing!
This log-and-rock Keystone CO home at 35 Wolf Rock Road “took the cake” at the awards ceremony. Overlooking the Snake River and nestled in the quiet neighborhood of Settlers Creek, this custom home is a collaboration between the owner, Baker + Hogan + Houx, Metzler Stephens, Edgewood Log Structures, and Colorado Design Concepts. This exclusive property boasts a remarkable “glass forest” design in the great room which magically transports the setting along the river and forest to make it feel that it’s actually inside the home!
With a striking moss rock fireplace, marvelous gourmet kitchen, impressive study, and stunning powder bath, this mountain estate is a dream home. Other awesome features include a log stairway, hand-forged railing and copper-barrel ceiling, timber trusses, handcrafted entry door and interior doors, hand-textured and glazed walls and ceilings, hand-crafted cabinets, Venetian plaster finish with aspen leaf detail, and more.
The lower level features heated, stamped and stained concrete floors that extent through a unique folding-door system to the outside. A very inviting bunk room, two guest rooms, a spa bath and steam shower, a recreation room with wet bar and wine storage, and a third laundry room offer privacy and amenities for guests and residents alike.
An extraordinary sunken theater decorated with a fiber optic starry sky, flickering lanterns, logs with bark, and custom mural work is one of many conversation pieces that speak to the mountain ambience. The master suite upstairs is a real retreat with its own fireplace, impressive five-piece bathroom, closets, and laundry room.
All of the Parade of Homes are expressions of Colorado Rocky Mountain vacation real estate at its best: relaxing, grand, playful, woodsy, elegant, green, and serene. Call RE/MAX Properties of the Summit at Keystone in the River Run Village at (866) 513-0404 or (970) 513-0404 for expert real estate services in the ski resort towns and communities.
Oct 17, 2008
Keystone Colorado Sustainable Real Estate
Green, conserve, sustainable, and energy efficient are buzz words around Keystone Colorado real estate in Summit County Colorado these days. Because an increasing number of people are familiar with green building methods and environmentally friendly materials, more Summit County and Keystone CO real estate is being developed or re-developed using various kinds of “green” standards.
Maybe not all new Keystone real estate will be ENERGY STAR-certified or will win the award as best example of Green Building. Judging by the fact that the four of the beautiful new luxury homes in the 2008 Summit County Parade of Homes are ENERGY STAR certified, however, we can expect that “sustainable” is becoming more of a goal in the Rocky Mountains than ever before.
These Summit County Parade homes are examples of what the aspects of building green homes in Keystone, Breckenridge, Silverthorne, Dillon, Frisco, and Copper Mountain from scratch: 82 Victory Lane built by Kodiak Enterprises, 1184 Discovery Hill Drive built by Apex Mountain Homes, 240 Elk Circle built by Hedges Mountain Homes, and 561 Elk Circle built by McCrery Fine Homes. Additionally, one couple decided to modernize and overhaul older Frisco CO real estate in a great location to add space and green features to their home.
Benefiting the Summit Foundation, the Summit County Builders Association presents the annual Parade of Homes each year during September. This year’s Parade showcased 27 spectacular single-family homes, a literally cache of mountain-home designs, finishes, and creative details.
Several communities are working on implementing their own versions of a Sustainable Building Ordinance. In fact, Colorado is on the leading edge of the nation’s green movement. One reason for that is the extensive amount of pristine national forests, open space, parklands, trails, and outdoor recreational activities. Another reason is that Coloradoans are conscious of healthy lifestyles and preserving the ecosystem.
The High Country Conservation Center is doing all it can to encourage higher green standard and awarded the home at 82 Victory Lane as best example of Green Building this year. Along with the Governor’s Office, they also awarded Kodiak Enterprises an ENERGY STAR award. ENERGY STAR homes undergo several extra vigorous inspections during construction and are more efficient. They have increased insulation, high-quality windows, a tightly sealed building envelope, and energy efficient appliances and fixtures.
Call Re/Max Properties of the Summit at Keystone in the River Run Village at (866) 513-0404 or (970) 513-0404 for expert real estate services in the resort towns and communities.
