Shoes off. Shoes on. Get in the car, get out of the car. Repeat about a dozen times in two hours, and there you have the annual Teton Village open house real estate tour. Homes, townhouses and condos available for preview on Wednesday at the base of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort numbered more than 30. The tour is set for this time of year so Realtors can familiarize themselves with the current...

It may be hard to imagine today, but in 1984 when the first Cottonwood Park homes were under construction, the southwestern corner of Jackson looked almost as rural as the ranch lands that define the landscape south of High School Road today. There were no sprawling school campuses with synthetic sports fields. No apartment complexes. No big box supermarket or department store. The “X” at the...

Buyers continue to return to the Jackson Hole real estate market with a focus in 2011 on the low end. In October, for example, this was evident as unit sales (38) increased 31 percent year over year, while sales volume ($36 million) slipped 6 percent. A report produced by Jackson Hole Sotheby’s summarizing 2011 sales through October quantifies the recent trend toward more transactions for lower sales...

Teton Village is already where it’s at, even though it is still three weeks until they power up the lifts at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and the season’s first big snowfall remains beyond the western horizon. This week’s Teton County Multiple Listing Service Hotsheet reports four Teton Village properties under contract and one closing. Two of the pending contracts are in Four Seasons in Jackson...