Bridget Brown's (bridgetbrown) Blog

In January, representatives of the Western Mountain Resort Alliance met in Vail and discussed the current state of resort real estate. The Park City numbers were impressive: In 2008, Park City had 737 transactions averaging $617,631/transaction. The 2009 slump hit us hard, both in volume and pric...

Empire Pass Real Estate, a marketing group of Keller Williams Park City Real Estate has just listed a new legacy property: This 1500 square foot cabin is being sold with 3 lots, (2.66 acres), an additional water right and an additional well share. This cabin was hand crafted during the remodel in...

My parents have listed their home in Lake Placid, NY. It is listed with Steven Reynolds of Merrill Thomas Real Estate and I want to increase his exposure so I am posting the home on ActiveRain. This nearly 6000' home on an acre is 1 block from Mirror Lake and nestled in a private and wooded neigh...

  This week in Park City, 21 properties have closed. Another 49 have come on the market and 36 have dropped their prices! In other news, the Park City Chamber estimates a total of 96,279 visitor nights this week, a 9.7% increase over last year. While New York City residents enjoy 70 degree weath...

Utah House Bill 175 accords some new rights to Utah Homeowners who have purchased property in new subdivisions. Under current law, developers maintain control of the HOA and the development until, usually, about 70% of the lots/homes are sold. This has been a problem in a few subdivisions as the ...

Take advantage of gorgeous spring weather on South Padre Island. Our top-floor, 3 bedroom 2 bath condo is available for rent in April. Bring your boat and moor it in a private slip in our protected Marina. Get caught up on your reading at our peaceful infinity pool. Enjoy the steady winds of Apri...

Living at elevation in the inter-mountain west changes your perspective. I look out my window and see 9 feet of snow, packed, around my house, mountains blanketed with white and perfect "S" ski tracks in the distance. But, just a few miles away, and several thousand feet lower, my horse is sheddi...

If any of you are lucky enough to come to Park City for Spring Break, you will get to enjoy an enormous snowpack. Another foot of Utah powder fell last night and the skiing and riding conditions are unbeatable. Deer Valley boasts a 117" base. That's 9.75 FEET for us laymen. Park City Mountain Res...

In my "spare time", when I am not marketing our business or taking care of the accounting for our mutual non-profit water company, I work with an amazing program: Canines with a Cause is a non-profit group dedicated to training psychiatric service dogs for Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Diso...

Yes, folks, Park City is all grown up. In addition to making National news for exciting film festivals, world class skiing and creating Winter Olympians, Park City is on the radar for foodies. Bill White, (Bill White Enterprises: Chimayo, Grappa, Wahso, Windy Ridge, Windy Ridge Bakery and Ghidott...