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Here’s a link to our article explaining the tax credits for home buyers. First time home buyer can get up to $8000, and for the repeat home buyer up to $6500. These tax credits are due to [...]

Continuing from last week, the phones are still ringing and people are putting in offers.  It’s going to be a busy year.  Here in Durango it’s dumping snow outside with plans to keep snowing or the next 5 days! 
Here is your Blue Ribbon’s Weekly Market Update:
What has sold?
8 Homes have sold in Durango in the past [...]

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Claudia Williams
Owner/Ecobroker/Exchangor
Blue Ribbon Properties
835 Main Ave #214
Durango, CO 81301
970 247 8388 (office)
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Blue Ribbon’s Weekly Market Update:
It has been busy here!  As I have said in the last few weeks, the market is picking up.  Many buyers are starting to call and ask all the right questions, sellers calling asking “what do I need to do to sell my house?”   Not a full market recovery but there [...]

Blue Ribbon’s Weekly Market Update:
 
What has sold?
8 Homes have sold in Durango in the past week.
Homes were priced from $124k-$510k.
-Average list price was $289k
-Average sold price: $266, Median sold price was: $225k
-Average Days on market: 197
-Average sold price per square foot from these homes: $214.00
-3 homes were in town, the other 5 in rural Durango locations
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The overall forecast for 2010 is looking good.  All signs are pointing to improvement!  The phones have been ringing off the hook, buyers are looking at it’s the middle of winter -which is normally the down season!
Typically the activity over the holidays is slower because people are traveling and spending time with family and friends. [...]

It’s been quite the ride in real estate in 2009. Tough for sellers, scary for buyers, I feel it can only get better. If you are buying, this is the first time in 15 years in Durango that prices are down and sellers are willing to negotiate. In my book, definitely a great time to [...]

Here is a story taken from Gary Keller’s book “Shift” – how top real estate agents tackle tough times. I felt this little blurb would be good to share with you.
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In a recent interview with a top agent in Massachusetts, I asked how things were going in his local area. “Our market is really a [...]

There is no time more fitting to say thank you to our friends and clients from all of us at Blue Ribbon. It has been a great year.  Yes, we were faced with many challenges but none that we could not learn something from.

2010 Real Estate forecast for Durango – Positive
After speaking to lenders, investors, [...]

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 [...]