March 2011 News

For the first time in many years, Vail Mountain is going to stay open later. Beaver Creek Mountain closes on its normal date of April 7 but Vail closes April 24th, a full week later than usual. Between the incredible snowfall (over 400 inches thus far this season) and Easter being so late this year, we are blessed to gain some extra ski time. My guess is this will be one of those years where the mountain could be skiable well into May. So once Vail closes, it'll be on to Arapahoe Basin to get the last days in for the season. Today we got a foot of snow on Vail and Beaver Creek Mountains! So my guess is late season skiing in the Rockies will be phenomenal!

Spring Back to Vail
Spring Back to Vail is Vail's huge end-of-the-season bash with free concerts from national headliners, on-snow events and street parties. It is essentially the Mardi Gras of the Vail Valley! Running from April 15-24, this event features the infamous pond-skimming contest at Golden Peak and concerts performed by bands such as Train, Grace Potter and The Nocturnals, The Greyboy Allstars, Stephen Marley, Chris Velan and the Sierra Leone's Refugee Allstars! To register for the pond-skimming (you know you want to) and to see the detailed event calendar, click here.

2011 Started off with a Bang!
Eagle County real estate begins the year comparable to 2010. With $86,162,658 in dollar volume and 90 transactions, we're just 1% off in dollar volume and 11 transactions off from January of 2010. Eagle produced the most transactions with 14, while Lionshead had 20% of the total dollar volume for the county, the most of any area. Properties selling for less than $500,000 accounted for 59% of all transactions. Properties over $2 million accounted for 63% of the dollar volume; this includes 5 transactions each over $4 million. There were 2 properties that sold for more than $10 million: one in Beaver Creek for $10.5 million, and one in Bachelor Gulch for $10.3 million. Vacant land is off to a good start in 2011 with 10 lots selling in January. For all of 2010 there were a total of 79 lots sold.