Tag Archives: real estate

Summit County Sales Close Year on High Note

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Eric Buck

Summit County saw a bang up December allowing the  full year to end with solid gains.  For the month, dollar sales rose 42 percent to $87.2 million while sales volume increased to 185 transactions.  Those numbers represent the third highest … Continue reading →

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October Real Estate Sales Post Blowout Month

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Eric Buck

October produced the strongest performance in Summit County  of any month in the last 4-5 years.  Transaction volume vaulted to 230 units up 43% from a year ago and 45% from September.  That was the highest unit sales number of … Continue reading →

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Higher end of the Summit market gets active

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Eric Buck

Transactions volumes ticked down slightly in September but a pick up at the higher end of the market generated the strongest monthly dollar sales since December of 2009.  There were a total of 158 transactions in the month down from … Continue reading →

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Summit County volumes remain up but dollars lag

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Eric Buck

Sales activity in June rose for the third straight month, albeit at a more modest pace than was seen in April and May.  Total transactions were up 5% year over year to 109 but that pace was below the 134 … Continue reading →

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Beware of listing aggregators

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Eric Buck

Listing aggregators such as Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com have become popular sites for buyers to search for properties.  However, these aggregators have become notorious for having inaccurate out-dated and misleading information.  A recent search of one aggregator showed twice as … Continue reading →

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Summit County Real Estate seeing a pick-up.

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Eric Buck

After a lackluster performance in April , the Summit County real estate market showed impressive gains in May and momentum appears to be continuing into June.  For April, sales volume rose by 6%  year over year but with activity concentrated … Continue reading →

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March Summit County real estate sales come up short

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Eric Buck

Real estate sales in March were nearly as scarce as the snow with total sales falling 17% versus the prior year’s period to $37.4 million.  Transactions were also down, falling 21% to 81 total deals.  To highlight how far the … Continue reading →

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Summit Association of Realtors – Breckenridge Town Council Questionaire

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Eric Buck

SUMMIT ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® BRECKENRIDGE TOWN COUNCIL CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRE   In order to ensure REALTORS® are educated and prepared for the upcoming Town Council  elections in Breckenridge, SAR has asked the candidates to answer questions important to the real estate … Continue reading →

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How to find a bargain.

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Eric Buck

Next to “How’s the market?”, the most common question I get is, “Do you have any bargains?”   I’ve developed a method for finding them. Of course what constitutes a “bargain” is very subjective but one metric is the valuation placed … Continue reading →

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Is owning ski property no longer a good investment?

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Eric Buck

Is the notion of buying mountain property as an investment dead? So proclaims an article in the November 2011 issue of SKI magazine. No doubt ski properties across the country have taken a hit over the last several years. This … Continue reading →

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