Summit County Colorado Real Estate Information

I am very excited about a new listing I have - it's a single family home in Frisco, Colorado for $599,000. What makes this home interesting is it used to be a service station in Old Town Dillon. If you know anything about Summit County, you may know that Dillon used to be at the bottom of Lake Di...

Foreclosure Update for August 2010 photo compliments of www.allvoices.com. Since January 1, 2010, there have been 344 foreclosure actions; 207 with fee simple (100%) ownership, and 96 for timeshares.  The other 41 are unknown.  Thirty eight of these occurred in August. One hundred and fifty-four ...

August shows improvement over July. August 2010 had a total of 97 residential improved transactions, up from 54 in July 2010.  That's an increase of 79.6%!  Total residential dollar volume in August was $50.1 million up from $34.3 million in July.  That's an increase of 46.1%.  Total number of t...

 Foreclosure Update for July 2010    photo compliments of www.sgklawyer.com Foreclosures in Summit are increasing as you might expect in this economy.  However, with all the foreclosures reported below, only two bank owned properties sold in July.  Expect more sales of distressed properties as ti...

Real Estate Statistics    A Scary July The media sure had plenty of real estate bad news to share in July.  If you don't know what I'm talking about, a simple Google search will point you in the right direction.  July in Summit mirrored the bad news with only $34.3 million in residential sales.  ...

If you haven't been to Summit County, Colorado in the last few years, you haven't seen the dying orange and dead brown lodge pole pines left by the pine beetles.  According to the Denver Post, over 3 million acres of trees have been killed in Colorado and Wyoming.  http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14...

Last month, I traveled back to Nebraska for my high school reunion.  One of my classmates built and owns a beautiful sporting club where clay pigeon shooting is one of the attractions.  http://www.oak-creek-club.com/   Having not shot a shotgun in, oh, 20 years, and wearing 4" platform sandals, I...

Last week one of the sales representatives from a local title company stopped by my office.  His company is offering seller financing services whereby the title company insures the seller and his or her loan position, manages the payment services, escrows for taxes and insurance, and assists wit...

  I know you have had this happen before.  If you are a real estate broker, you may have had a listing for months, or even years.  All of a sudden, there is an interested buyer, then another, and maybe even another.  After sitting on the market all this time, your property has captured some good ...

Accidental dialing.  It happens.  If you let your kids play with your cell phone, it most certainly will happen.   I get a call a week from my friend Brandi's phone.  But it's not Brandi . . . it's her two year old daughter Olivia.  I'm the first person on her contacts, Olivia's always dialing me...