As a well-polished realtor, you’d never suspect that Donna used to be a cowgirl. Along with her five sisters and one brother, she worked a cattle ranch in southern Idaho. I don’t know how many acres the ranch is. A while back, I learned that asking such things is a bit impolite and somewhat like […]

Vail, CO (Oct. 2008) –Slifer Smith & Frampton, the Vail Valley’s and Summit County’s premier real estate firm, has released company sales numbers for fiscal year 2008 that reflect the company’s second best year ever (the company recorded its best year for closed dollar volume in 2007).  According to the firm, the Slifer Smith & […]

The real-estate market in Summit County continues to perform, which is why we ask ourselves every day, “Why are buyers not buying, when now is quite possibly the best opportu­nity in the last decade?” The next few days and weeks in congress will hopefully help us answer that question, at which point con­sumers will have […]

The strong Canadian dollar and the American housing downturn have led many Canadian investors to buy properties in the U.S., June Fletcher writes in today’s Wall Street Journal. Fletcher found that Canadians made up the largest portion of foreign buyers of U.S. homes between May 2007 and May 2008. At 24% of all foreign buyers, […]

The latest national economic growth numbers should finally put to rest fears of a recession that could choke the real estate recovery now getting underway.
 Second quarter Gross Domestic Product (or GDP) came in at an upwardly-revised 3.3 percent — far above the 1.9 percent the federal government had previously estimated.
Key reasons for the robust economic […]