by Glen Weinberg | Jan 17, 2019 | Colorado Hard Money, Colorado Living, Colorado Private Lending, Colorado Real Estate values, Colorado Ski real estate, Colorado Ski towns
Vail resorts, the owner of Breckenridge, Vail, Keystone, and Crested Butte in Colorado, has fallen 39% percent from its peak and recently fell 13% in one day. At the same time lift ticket revenue was up 12% and visitation up 17%. Why is revenue declining when this...
by Glen Weinberg | Dec 4, 2018 | Alternative financing, Colorado Commercial Property Valuation, Colorado Living, Colorado Private Lending, Colorado Ski real estate, Colorado Ski towns, Condo Lending
The global economy is still healthy, yet last year out of the top destinations for international travel only two declined. The United States and Turkey! The other top ten destinations all increased; many increased by double digits while the U.S. declined by 6%. The...
by Glen Weinberg | Oct 12, 2018 | Colorado Commercial Property Valuation, Colorado Hard Money, Colorado Living, Colorado Private Lending, Colorado Real Estate values, Colorado Ski real estate, Colorado Ski towns, Condo Lending
It’s snow time! As I’m looking out the window watching snow fall and just read the announcement that Wolf Creek, Arapaho Basin, and Loveland will start spinning their lifts this week, it reminds me of the importance of winter weather on real estate. In markets like...
by Glen Weinberg | Oct 4, 2018 | Colorado Hard Money, Colorado Living, Colorado Private Lending, Colorado Real Estate values, Colorado Ski real estate, Colorado Ski towns, Condo Lending, Denver Hard Money, Denver hard money Lenders
According to AirDNA 50% of all nightly rentals in Denver are currently unlicensed and not paying the appropriate taxes. Denver implemented various rules to try to crack down on nightly rentals requiring all nightly rentals to be a primary residence. It doesn’t...
by Glen Weinberg | Sep 21, 2018 | Colorado Commercial Property Valuation, Colorado Hard Money, Colorado Private Lending, Colorado Real Estate values, Colorado Ski real estate, Colorado Ski towns, Condo Lending, Denver real estate values, Ski lending/ investing
The state legislature is considering a bill that would tax residential nightly rentals (any rentals less than 30 days) as commercial properties. This would change the tax assessment on a statewide level. On the surface it doesn’t seem like a big deal, but commercial...
by Glen Weinberg | Sep 13, 2018 | Colorado Living, Colorado Private Lending, Colorado Real Estate values, Colorado Ski real estate, Colorado Ski towns, Ski lending/ investing
As ski season is about to start again in under a month (Arapahoe 10/13). I took the pic above of Loveland pass a few weeks ago. It is important to note what happened in Colorado last year; Llast winter ski visits in Aspen skiing co were down 7% through last December...