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Holiday Real Estate Greeetings!

January 05, 2021

Happy Holidays from Park City!  Kristi & I are enjoying the open, distanced outdoor spaces!  Skiing, Snowbiking, hiking!  Not quite a Utah “Greatest Snow on Earth” just yet, but it’s coming!  Skiing is good, resorts are open on a limited basis, on great man made snow coverage (not completely, but more every day!) I’ve skied both […]

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September snow, $12Million condo, Property Tax Primer

September 08, 2020

Wow, It’s September Already! Reasons why September is our favorite Park City month:1.  Park City summer is usually cool, but in September it really cools down!  Crazy weather and temp swings:  Right now it looks like this, still sort of summer.  We’ve had a record heat wave in August and early September.  Can’t remember it hitting 90 in […]

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January storms and 2019 stats!

February 12, 2020

January Powder Days and Another BDE at Deer Valley! What a way to start the new year!  I shot these skiing Wednesday, Jan 15.  Another “Best Day Ever”  (BDE) at Deer Valley!   We just completed an 8 day storm cycle that dumped nearly five feet of snow on Park City and Deer Valley!  Already 148 […]

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Happy Holidays from AJ's Deer Valley Real Estate News!

December 19, 2019

What an incredible start to the 2019-2020 ski season at Deer Valley & Park City!  Deer Valley Real Estate is off to a great start with several new developments in the ground and more to come.   Plan on unusually great Christmas skiing this year, and a banner season at both Deer Valley and Park City Mountain! […]

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Early October Deer Valley Snow and High end Park City Real Estate Sales!

November 07, 2019

Early Snow and Snowmaking We took these photos last week after an October snowstorm and cold nights for productive early snowmaking!  It’s a great start, but is a balmy 55 degrees today!   Deer Valley’s opening day, as usual, is December 7, while PCMR is November 22.  Ski season in coming! Carpenter Express at Silver Lake/Deer Valley 10/30/19 That is Payday […]

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New Record Home Sale Closed in Deer Valley

October 05, 2019

Historic Deer Valley Home Sale Closed  This home in Deer Crest, Deer Valley, listed recently for a stunning $25M, closed escrow last week for nearly $24M!   This ski in/out sale is the highest yet recorded in the local Park City area real estate market.   Listed, pended, and closed within 60 days, this sale tops the prior record (at The Colony in 2004) by $1M […]

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Amazing Park City Area High End Home Sales. Property Tax Primer.

September 04, 2019

Three Remarkable High End Home Sales in the Park City Market Follow the big money…  A few fat wallets are obviously getting tired of the wild gyrations on Wall Street.  Up 2%, down 2%, all in one day!  Can drive you nuts.  So, where else to put the money?  Well, to that point, in 2019 so […]

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July 2019 was a great month in Park City!

August 02, 2019

Interesting Stats and two Doublers Today’s stats show a remarkable result:  In the aggregate market, including Park City, Heber Valley, Kamas Valley, there were 1095 closed sales so far this year, vs 1094 last year to date.   An amazing, nearly identical number of sales, with corresponding average sales price nearly identical at $1.1m throughout those 1095 […]

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PCMR Parking lots sold to Provo Developer. World’s smallest ski in/ski out home.

May 06, 2019

Newsflash:  Park City Resort Base Parking lots sold! Vail Resorts, the owner of Park City Mountain Resort, recently announced an agreement to sell the PCMR parking lots to a Provo-based development firm. Purchase price for the 10 acres is as yet undisclosed.   A 1990s approval, negotiated by former PCMR owner Powdr Corp, included significant development on the three […]

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Third Quarter Park City Real Estate Stats!

November 03, 2017

  Nov 1, 2017 – The Park City Board of REALTORS® has released year over year quarterly statistics for Summit and Wasatch Counties. The overall real estate market continues to be healthy, stable, and growing at sustainable rates. The number of single family market transactions and the median sales price grew at 7% and 7% […]

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Winter in September in Park City!

September 25, 2017

 Fall is the new Winter at Deer Valley! This photo is from today, September 24 at 3:45 pm (note the time code) and still snowing.  No, it won’t stick and the lifts won’t open tomorrow, but nice to see an early preview of winter in September!   Deer Valley #1 again for 2018 with Ski […]

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Ultra High End Real Estate Sales Continue in Park City Market

August 01, 2016

It’s all relative.  Super high end real estate in the Park City/Deer Valley market could be considered anything above $5M.   In the past six months we have seen 13 closed sales over this price in the Park City area.   That’s over two a month in this stratospheric price range. And just when we think the $10-11M […]

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Tired of Brexit? Take a hike. Live the Park City Dream. Never Go Home.

June 24, 2016

Deer Lake Village in Deer Valley Brexit, Schmexit.  Yes, important, but tiring.   Dow down 600.  Pound down 8%.   I’m sure there’s something good there for someone in northern England.  If I were David Cameron, I would be retiring too. Sell stocks and buy Real Estate.   Here in Park City, we have the best skiing and snow in […]

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A few first quarter real estate stats from Aj

May 19, 2016

Single Family Homes in Park City Throughout the Park City city limits and Snyderville Basin, 134 single family homes were sold in the first four months of 2016.  This is actually down 9% over last year same period. However, the average sales price of these 134 homes is an astonishing $1.96M!   In the Park City city limits, […]

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What Park City Real Estate and Powerball have in common…

January 14, 2016

Recent Powerball winners stand to share about $1.6 Billion in cash.  This is certainly beyond the ridiculous, as the sales volume of the entire 2015 Park City/Deer Valley Real Estate Market was $1.55B!  (an increase of 9% from 2014)  Maybe these winners should be required to buy some Park City real estate, so they don’t lose it all in the stock […]

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Snow, Bald Eagle Auction, Talisker Sheriffs Sale, and Silver Lake condo sales!

November 17, 2015

Talking Deer Valley Real Estate More  snow!   Snowmaking is under way at Deer Valley.   (Well, this is the way it looked in the 50’s anyway)   Looking good so far!  Go El Nino. However, as always, Deer Valley opens no earlier than their scheduled day no matter how much snow!   Smart economics.  This year it is December 5.   Park City opens […]

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Winter's Here at Deer Valley… we've got snow!

November 06, 2015

Well, maybe not that much, but we did get a shot of snow and is clearly cold enough for good snowmaking at all the Utah Resorts.  Here is a shot of Deer Valley laying down a good early base at Silver Lake at the Sterling lift!  Opening day is December 5! High End Deer Valley […]

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