The Western Mountain Resort Alliance (formerly known as the Rocky Mountain Resort Alliance) released third quarter real estate statistics for 12 resort communities similar to Teton County, WY, from Whistler, BC to Steamboat, CO. Overall, this mountain of statistics mainly compares apples to oranges and is of little direct value to someone focused on buying and selling real estate in Jackson Hole (or any...

The Jackson Hole News&Guide has at least two real estate related stories this week – one on foreclosures and another an update on the Jedediah’s House of Sourdough story I mentioned on Monday. Neither story is online but both deserve comment and I’ll try to follow up later this week. But if you only have time for one piece in the weekly, as usual go straight to economist Jonathan Schechter’s...

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Two national real estate stories caught my eye this morning. The first is from Realty Times and the second from RIS Media. Both tout the nationwide rise in October sales, which mirrors the strong October sales numbers for Teton County reported here last week. Both also make sure to give most of the credit to the $8,000 first-time homebuyer’s tax credit originally set to expire Nov. 30. The credit has...