December 2017

Third Quarter Review

With the close of 2017 right around the corner, the trend of increasing prices over 2016 continues. Comparing 2016’s third quarter with the 2017 third quarter, Summit County marks positive increases across many areas. The Average Residential Sales Price continues to climb over the previous year with an 18.45% increase, raising the average sales price from $563,866 to an incredible $667,911. We also saw a 17.11% increase in the Overall Transaction Median Price.

While we saw a small dip in the number of closed transactions this year (773 this year compared to 794 in 2016), the momentum of the overall market is reflected in the Gross Sales Volume with an increase of 19.91% over 2016. This is due to the previously mentioned

This month’s Uniquely Breckenridge features photographer and gallery owner David Pfau. Owner of Breckenridge Photographics, David’s gallery is located in the heart of Breckenridge’s Main Street and just a short walk to the base of Breckenridge Mountain’s Quicksilver Chair.

David came to Breckenridge in 1987 after graduating from the Journalism school at the University of Colorado at Boulder. While David owned a home in Boulder, he frequently came to Breckenridge to shoot mountain landscapes and ended up renting a studio apartment so he could ski and mountain bike. It wasn’t until 1991 that David made Breckenridge his permanent home; he started his business, bought a home, and got his first Labrador Retriever who would soon become his muse.

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