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Summit County Real Estate News & Market Insights
August 2026 – Amy’s Shenanigans
As evidenced by my pictures, I spent August in Summit County with a lot of time at the Keystone golf courses! Tyler came to visit, Max went back to school, we saw a great concert at Copper, and went to a Rockies game. Expect lots of great leaf pictures in next month’s...
Buy Smarter, Not Harder: A Frisco Second Homeowner’s Best Advice
Candice sits down with her friend (and fellow real-estate-spreadsheet enthusiast) Lauren for a candid, lived-in look at what it actually takes to own a second home in Frisco, Colorado. Lauren bought her first mountain condo to escape I-70 traffic, learned the hard way...
Summit County Real Estate Market Update – August 2026
The 2026 market looks remarkably like the 2025 market. One difference is we have about 7% more inventory in 2026 than in 2025. That doesn’t seem like much but it does create more options for buyers and we can certainly feel it in the slower velocity of buyer decision...
New Federal Housing Law: What Does It Mean for Summit County?
We asked one of our preferred lenders, Mike Stone of Threepoint Mortgage to help us understand the changes in mortgage underwriting for condominiums. Here is what he has to say: Upcoming changes to conventional condo lending guidelines could have a meaningful impact...
Do Short-Term Rental Bans Lower Home Values?
For the last few years, Summit County buyers and sellers have been asking some version of the same question: "Does short-term rental eligibility actually move a property's value, or is that just something realtors say?" We decided to find out with data instead of a...
July2026 – Amy’s Shenanigans
I celebrated my birthday in July, played plenty of golf with family and friends, and took a trip to Southern California to visit Tyler who now lives in Newport Beach. And that’s Candice’s daughter Eloise and I with matching aviator sunglasses. As I always say, you...
Summit County Real Estate Market Update – July 2026
For this month’s market report, I’m providing a screen shot from a MLS reporting module called Green Lights. Because the market is holding steady without any marked changes to be captured in the July 2026 data set, I thought a picture is worth a thousand words. We did...
Summit County Real Estate Market Update – June 2026
Overall, things are heating up for summer as we would expect. Thus far, we are trending ahead of the past few years in pricing and number of sales. There is still a lot of inventory to choose from, so buyers can be picky and negotiate and sellers should expect to...
May 2026 – Candice’s Shenanigans
May started with our annual Mother’s Day camping trip in Moab with a crew of friends. While I took very few photos, we did lots of mountain biking with kids and some trail running. I did a few other trail runs with friends as we prep for some fun summer races! There...
May 2026 – Amy’s Shenanigans
In May we got our biggest snowstorm of the entire winter season when most of the resorts were closed and gear was put away. I got to enjoy the opening of the Keystone golf courses and golfed with my husband and son Max on Mother’s Day. (My son Tyler moved to...
New Resource: Summit County’s Interactive STR Map
Short-term rental regulations in Summit County are among the most layered in Colorado — and the rules are different depending on whether you're looking at a condo in Keystone, a chalet in Breckenridge, or a cabin outside Frisco. That's why we built the Summit County...
April 2026 – Amy’s Shenanigans
I realize that in April my camera roll consists of very few personal photos, but instead a lot more photos of homes I’m going to list! Here are a couple photos from our trip to Cabo to celebrate Darren’s birthday in early April along with a video clip of impressive...