Is affordable housing  causing the surge in ski town home prices?

Is affordable housing  causing the surge in ski town home prices?

What is the main culprit for increasing prices in ski towns?  The list is endless but typically at the top is the huge increase in nightly rentals and the big bad mega passes bringing more people to the ski towns.  Unfortunately, this answer is incorrect, it is a...
These Colorado Cities will rewind to 2019: the list will Surprise

These Colorado Cities will rewind to 2019: the list will Surprise

The appreciation over the last seven years throughout Colorado has been astounding, but now it is time to pay the piper.  What cities in Colorado are most at risk of rewinding most if not all of the Covid appreciation gains?  Why are “suburban” markets more at risk...
What would you do if you had 5 minutes?

What would you do if you had 5 minutes?

My wife and I were out for a longer day hike when we crest the hill and got a dead-on view of a new wildfire.  We knew immediately it was in the direction of our house, and it was growing rapidly.  The evacuation notices immediately go out, giving some folks less than...
Is affordable housing worth 2 million a unit?

Is affordable housing worth 2 million a unit?

Over the last 30 years I continue to hear about the “affordable housing crisis”.  Do we really have an affordable housing crisis or a leadership crisis within the ski towns.  A recent proposal in Steamboat pegs the build cost of one affordable housing unit over 1.7m....
Vacancy tax on nightly rentals 7500/unit in major ski town

Vacancy tax on nightly rentals 7500/unit in major ski town

Crested Butte, CO it the latest to propose a vacancy tax with one major shift, nightly rentals would be covered by the new tax along with second homeowners. Who knew that Colorado ski towns would be taking economic lessons from Portland Oregon,one of the worst...