A frozen sagebrush bush on a recent clear, crisp western Wyoming morning. Weather: Still high, dry. Rinse, repeat. Jackson Hole news links: Jarad Spackman, my colleague at Jackson Hole Sotheby’s, remembered by Rock and Ice as a top mountaineer that passed in 2013. RIP, Jarad. You are missed. If you can ski like Tommy Moe, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort prefers you do not. Still safety month out there...
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Weather: Big Ben, Parliament ... same old, same old blues skies and alpenglow with this super stubborn high pressure squatting on northwest Wyoming. Jackson Hole links without stinks: From inside the white room. Riveting first person account of surviving a huge avalanche in the Tetons by Jackson resident Jimmy Chin. Your must read of the day, trust me. Jackson Hole High School ranked No. 1 in Wyoming...
Earlier this week I wrote a short blog post for jhpropertyguide.com discussing the available building sites in Jackson Hole. Two aspects I did not touch on, however, were recent sales and under contract listings in this market segment. It certainly wouldn’t have taken long to add them: according to Teton County Multiple Listing Service there have been just 10 building site sales in Jackson Hole since...
As prices for Jackson Hole real estate have fallen in the past year, sales of building sites have decreased dramatically. In general, better deals on existing homes have been more attractive than buying land and building. But there will always be those more interested in designing and building a home themselves. And while Teton County is quite famously comprised on 97 percent public lands that cannot be...