A BULLETIN! and SOME PERFORMANCE NUMBERS

Saturday, February 19, 2011
BULLETIN:  Beaver Creek Resort has received 14” of new snow since early Thursday morning bringing season-to-date snowfall totals up to twenty feet. More powder is forecast heading into the holiday weekend, providing fantastic conditions for skiers and snowboarders resort-wide ... among the skiers enjoying our premier conditions this weekend will be Michelle Obama and daughters, Sasha and Malia.

Here are some tallies of new business written by the brokers of my firm, Slifer Smith & Frampton (SSF):

February 11 – 17:
       $8,404,000 (SSF represented either the buyer or the seller)
       $9,720,000 (counting contracts where SSF represented buyer + seller)

February 4 – 10:
       $10,268,500 (SSF represented either the buyer or the seller)
       $16,348,000 (counting contracts where SSF represented buyer + seller)

January 28 – February 6:
       $8,914,000 (SSF represented either the buyer or the seller)
     $14,379,500 (counting contracts where SSF represented buyer + seller)

This coming week, the Presidents' Holiday Week, should bring a lot of visitors, owners, and hopefully buyers to the Vail Valley.  It will also mark the start of our Spring high-season/busy season which should run at least through the end of March and perhaps longer because of this year's late Easter (April 22nd).  From the looks of things, we should have plenty of snow to last 'til the mountain closes.