While the focus today, the day after Thanksgiving, is on retail bargains like $99 flat screen TVs, a look at the Jackson Hole real estate inventory reveals the best buying environment in years. One barometer I’ve been tracking for the last two years is the number of residential properties in Teton County listed below $300,000. Today there are 35 such properties with 29 of them in Jackson. In April...

The following stats were provided by the Chamber of Commerce and compiled internally at Jackson Hole Sotheby’s. Only a few are directly related to real estate, but all play a role in the greater regional economy. Overall, most of the figures mirror the Jackson Hole real estate market: stable and better than 2009, but still struggling to regain the mojo of the middle of this decade. However, there is...

October real estate sales in Jackson Hole were strong, totaling approximately $29.4 million on 24 completed transactions. However, the month fell short of October 2009, the strongest month of that year, when there were 29 transactions for approximately $37.2 million, according to Teton County Multiple Listing Service. As has been the trend this year, the high end of the market (sales above $1.75 million...

Looking at monthly real estate sales in Jackson Hole can be misleading due to the relatively small sample sizes, especially when it comes to statistics like average sales price and months of inventory. For example, Teton County recorded an average sales price of $2.112 million in September, a rise of 258 percent from the September 2009 average of $590,000. Quarterly sales, on the other hand, provide a...