Things are looking good, buyer are out shopping again. Seller’s not dropping too much on prices but there is light on the horizon.   Here is the activity for Durango from the last 7 days.
What has sold in the last week?
9 Homes have sold in Durango in the past week.  Homes were priced from $190k-$529k.
-Average list price [...]

We’ve got an awesome new webtool that sends you a great real estate market report either for buyers or sellers. It shows comparable sales for the past three months and all homes currently on the market in a handy map format. Here’s a sample report  for Durango Home buyers.
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www.durangohousevalues.com.
You’ll [...]

NEW – Blue Ribbon is expanding!  Our new real estate office opened in downtown Aztec on Main Ave today!
Located right downtown, on 205 Main Ave,  Aztec, NM, 87410, the new Blue Ribbon Properties office is serving San Juan County in New Mexico, including the Farmington and Aztec area. Owned by Stacy and Chris Engle and Claudia Williams, [...]

2009 All La Plata County Sold Statistics:
Jan. 1 st 2009 – December 31 st 2009
Category      _     Total Volume      Total units _  Avg. Price          Median Price        Avg DOM
Durango Res.-   $122,806,644…….268………$458,233…………$379,950…………….216
Dgo. Co/Tnhm-$28,315,277………..94………$301,226…………$266,000…………….238
All Bayfield Res.-$32,085,002……125………$256,680…………$245,000……………..175
All Ignacio Res.- $3,057,388………..13………$235,183…………$220,000……………..129
All Resort Res.-   $22,993,177………52………$442,176…………$302,500…………….278
Vacant Land-       $18,464,500………86……..$214,703………….$164,950………………379
Farm & Ranch-    $22,162,000………4……$5,540,500……….$5,667,000……………..175
Commercial-         $8,595,075……….11……..$781,370…………..$464,364……………..233
 
Notes: Durango, Bayfield and Ignacio include both in-town and rural residential properties.
DOM = Days on market
Source: Colorado [...]

With the holidays here and full on winter just outside our front door, we don’t expect too much activity over the next couple of weeks but people are still looking and calling with questions.
After the new year we do expect much higher numbers in buyers and sales.  The crowd of ski vacationers and family visits [...]

We had a big storm pull through this week, adding few feet of fresh powder to our little mountain town!  Everything has been painted a beautiful shade of white.  Meanwhile we are still here working hard!
Here is your weekly market update:
What has sold?
11 Homes have sold in Durango in the past week.  Homes were priced [...]

Here are a few fun things to do in Durango that don’t take much time to enjoy…
Walk: The River Trail – Hike “Trails 2000″
Visit: “Old Town” Durango Historic Downtown
Train Museum
Fun: Drive the  San Juan Skyway
Ride the Silverton Train
Ice Skating 375-7395 for open times
Swim: Durango Recreation center 375-7300
Trimble Hot Springs 247-0111
Tour: Mesa Verde National Park
The [...]

Your uncle’s trying to encourage people to buy a home and if they’ll take his advice, he’ll give them $8,000 in the form of a tax credit on next year’s tax return.
You know about the tax credit but you may not understand just how big of a deal it really is. If you qualify (meaning [...]

Here is a quick weekly update on what has sold, what’s under contract with a sale pending and what’s newly listed in Durango.
*** SOLD: 3 homes closed in the last week.
Sold Price:  $348,000. $390,000. $394,000.  2 where in town condo/town homes and the other was a single family home outside the “city limits”.
Average days [...]

Just read these thank you letters, published in the Durango Herald, Sunday Spt. 20, 2009. It will make you want to move to Durango…
Visitors touched by help from local man
My wife, Leslie, and I recently were on vacation in Southwest Colorado. We hiked 80 miles on the COlorado Trail and had an amazing vacation in [...]