The Promontory community has weathered the downturn and financial crisis well and could be said to actually have benefitted from it in certain aspects. Promontory is without a doubt the most amenity rich option of the social club and golf communities in the Park City, UT area. The amenities they offer and the scope of their membership opportunities have grown each year.

Views from “The Shed” at Promontory

Golf Digest for 2013 ranked the Dye Canyon Course as #3 in the state followed by the Nicklaus Painted Valley course at #4 in the state. The Pete Dye designed Canyon Course also was named as #48 of the top 100 public golf courses by Golf Digest.

Real estate sales at Promontory show similar numbers for the past 12 months as the preceding 12 months, but there is a different feel. Pricing of the sales is up. The median sales price on building lots is up 20% and the median price on sold homes is up 15%. The number of distressed sales at Promontory has dropped dramatically. The last 12 months shows 16 sales of homes for a price of under $300 per square foot while the previous year had 27 such sales in the same number of total sales. There are currently 6 offerings on the Park City MLS in Promontory for under $300 per square foot of the 55 active sales.

The recent sales data at Promontory has been strong enough that the developer (The Pivotal Group) is beginning to re-introduce developer owned lots as well as increasing their “cabin” home offerings. Developer owned lots and cabins at Promontory can include memberships and delayed or deferred social club and golf fees which need to be considered as part of the Promontory amenities, so not all purchase prices are equal.

Non-golf related developments are a huge contributing factor to the value at Promontory. The Shed which opened last year has been a huge success. This year’s new additions include a “dog park” athletic and social club refurbishing and an additional pool. Most noticeable are the $1M spent by the Promontory Conservancy on trees.

With the total development still being less than have done and still a large number of resale opportunities; there is quite a bit of territory and many options to consider. For a tour and assistance in navigating the options at Promontory contact a golf realty specialist with YouInParkCity.com at (888)968-4672.

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During the period while the development moved through loan default and the subsequent purchase by Sterling Bay Companies, the property and facilities were maintained and available for use by the owners. Sterling Bay has re-envisioned (and employed Meriwether Companies to assist the luxury development and management of) the property limiting the development to 200 single family homesites and ranchettes plus 100 golf cabins. Four thousand acres of the 6700 acres will remain untouched “backcountry”.

The result of this limited development will be a community that feels away from it all. Most of the golf course will be surrounded by golf course and backcountry views; not homes. This, along with the private four mile stretch of Upper Provo River makes this a very different golf community. Truly Victory Ranch and Conservancy is an outdoor community designed to allow you to get away from it all that happens to have a great golf course.

Four lots have sold and four more have pending contracts since the re-release of the building lots at Victory Ranch. This puts the total number of ownership possibilities for single family homesites in Victory Ranch at about 140. The one hundred golf and family cabins are soon to be released with a target price for the finished product in the $400-$450 per square foot range.

In terms of golf course related Park City real estate, we believe that Victory Ranch is truly in a class by itself. To learn more about Victory Ranch and to gain a better perspective as to how it fits in the golf course communities of Park City contact a golf real estate professional at YouInParkCity.com (888)968-4672 today.

http://canyonsresort.com photo credit Canyons Resort and Rob Bossi

Vail brings with it a large marketing presence and a huge database of skiers and snowboarders. Recently the resort operator has been shifting its model to focus efforts on resort revenue rather than real estate development. One of the main focus points of this effort is the Epic Pass. Vail Resorts will include Canyons in its Epic Pass program which offers skiers and snowboarders unlimited access to Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Northstar, Heavenly and Kirkwood all for $689. The impact of this should be huge for Canyons which saw 450,000 skier days last season. The pass is sold to not just locals, but to skiers and snowboarders worldwide (last year saw buyers from 70 different countries). Anyone looking to ski a week at one of Vail Resorts operations can cut their vacation costs by purchasing an Epic Pass and open up the opportunity of skiing in Colorado, California, Utah, Austria and Switzerland all on one ticket. Go to Snow.com/epic-pass for more.

The impact of all the Epic Pass holders having essentially free lift passes at Canyons Resort as an added bonus to their pass purchase will undoubtedly bring more skiers and snowboarders to Park City. Home and condominium owners in Park City already know about the easy access and great offerings that are here, but this will open the area up to a whole new set of visitors. The added exposure to Canyons Resort and Park City will lead to increased demand for local real estate and drive up prices as well as add to the rental revenues of current owners.

There are many factors to real estate prices and we don’t have a crystal ball to see the future, but what Vail Resorts brings to Canyons and local Park City real estate should only prove positive.

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Vail lost out to Talisker a few years back in the bidding to purchase the resort, but is now coming back to take over the operations. Talisker Corporation has retained all of the development rights. In the original battle between Vail and Talisker for the purchase, Talisker’s lack of ski mountain operations background was a point of contention. In today’s press release Vail commended the work Talisker had done with $75M in improvements and other moves that had raised Canyons into the top ten ski resorts in North America as rated by the readers of Ski Magazine.

The website home page of Canyons Resort announces that “Utah is now Epic”. This refers to Canyons Resort being included as part of Vail Resorts’ Epic Pass which offers skiing and riding at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Northstar, Heavenly, and Kirkwood all for $689 (20% below the price of a Canyons Resort pass last year).

The press release states that the companies agreed to a fifty year lease with six fifty year options to renew at a price of $25 Million per year plus a yearly increase and portion of EBITDA.

The agreement also includes the land which Talisker currently leases to Park City Mountain Resort. The leased land is mentioned as potential lease without additional consideration. The litigation between Talisker and Park City Mountain Resort is ongoing. The chairman and CEO of Vail Resorts is quoted as saying he hopes “Vail Resorts can play a constructive role in helping to arrive at a solution that offers the best outcome for guests of both resorts”. Great news for skiers and snowboarders at Canyons and Park City, but a questionable phrase for Powder Corp (Owner of Park City Mountain Resort).

Park City as a whole should only benefit from what Vail Resorts brings in terms of marketing and resort operation expertise.

Skiing; three resorts named in the top ten in North America (Deer Valley, Park City Mountain Resort, and Canyons) make this pretty easy.

Road Biking; Outside notes the Mirror Lake Scenic Byway outside of Kamas as a riding highlight. I’d say that with Park City having been named the first Gold-Level riding center ever by the International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA), mountain biking, with the hundreds of miles of trails in Park City, could easily have been the highlight (note that Outside while highlighting road biking notes in its description of Park City that the mountain biking is “absurdly good”).

Food & Nightlife; there are well over 100 restaurants that Park City offers without a bad one in the bunch, Outside highlights the High West Distillery “world class” is the descriptive phrase the magazine uses in describing Park City.

Easy Access to Green Space; it is nearly impossible to stroll ten minutes in any direction from Park City and not find yourself in some type of open space.

Outside closes its brief description of Park City by calling it “the best mix of adventure and culture of any mountain town in the West”. We here at YouInParkCity.com agree wholeheartedly!

Vote for your favorite “Best Town Ever” at: http://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/best-towns-2013.

Park City, UT is up against Boston, Bozeman, Carbondale, Greenville, Honolulu, Oklahoma City, San Diego, Spokane, and Waitsfield.

Red Ledges, one of Park City Real Estate’s premier golf communities, sold 48 properties in the in the past 12 months. For the same time period last year there were 36 sales. This shows a very healthy improvement. Part of what we see as very encouraging (for Park City’s golf community market) is that 10 lots were sold to smaller builders who intend to break ground on spec homes. New homes being built and in the planning stages is yet another sign that the Park City Real Estate market is turning the corner. Another positive indicator that Red Ledges is healthy is that a new neighborhood is breaking ground. It is called Mountain View. Mountain View will offer 4 models that will be priced in the $500,000 to $700,000 range. Red Ledges is differentiating itself in Park City’s golf market by offering homes in more price ranges than the other golf communities. With a few lots still available for under $200,000 and single family homes starting in the $500,000 range Red Ledges has with increased their pool of buyers compared to the other Golf communities. Golf or lifestyle memberships are currently included in developer sales but we expect that to come to an end soon.

Red Ledges amenity package now includes the Jack Nicklaus 18 hole championship signature course, a comprehensive practice facility, the Jim McLean Golf School, the Cliff Drysdale Tennis academy, a golf shop, and swimming pool and equestrian programs. The most exciting news is that they will be breaking ground on the Clubhouse next month. The current goal is to have all of the planned amenities in place in the next 5 years.

For more Red Ledges real estate information or for a tour of the community and facilities contact a realty professional with the YouInParkCity.com Group at (888)968-4672.

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Now to Glenwild real estate. Of the 200 luxury homes and home sites at Glenwild there are 12 homes and 12 lots for sale currently. In the past 12 months there were 7 Glenwild homes sold. During this time 20 lots sold. The average price per square foot of the homes sold was $378 while the average for homes for sale is $419 per square foot. The active buyers in the Park City Real Estate market seem to be saying that they are willing endure the building process unless the price of an existing home is very compelling. The YouInParkCity.com group, as a member of the “Builder Services” division of Keller Williams Park City Real Estate works with many of the Park City builders and has access to a wealth of information regarding building trends and costs and what buyers are saying makes a lot of sense. At the builder service practice group we leverage these contacts and information to help ensure the design build process goes smoothly for our clients.

What makes Glenwild unique among Park City’s 5 golf communities, in our opinion, is that it offers a more intimate setting than most of the other golf developments which are substantially larger. The amenities which, in addition to golf, include an exceptional trails system, state of the art spa, spacious swimming pool, tennis courts, an elegant clubhouse and an inviting restaurant are sized to accommodate the limited membership. Glenwild is also the only gated golf community in Park City to offer memberships to people that don’t own property in the community.

There are currently 36 of the 325 memberships available. The price for a golf membership is $75,000 with annual dues running $12,000. Social memberships are also available for $15,000 with annual dues costing $6,000.

For more information about the real estate opportunities and how the Glenwild community may fit your lifestyle contact a local realty expert with YouInParkCity.com at (888)968-4672.

In the past 12 months there have been 149 sales plus 35 pending sales in Glenwild, Promontory, Red Ledges, Tuhaye and Victory Ranch combined. This number includes vacant land, single family homes and condos. For the same time a year ago total sales were 127 properties. Both years had approximately two dozen distressed sales. Current distressed inventory makes up less than 5% of the current available inventory.

The more than 15% rise in sales has been accompanied by an increase in prices with the average selling price of vacant lots up by nearly 30%. Market indicators for Park City area real estate are very strong and this bodes well for the private golf course communities in Park City as well. In the next few weeks we here at YouInParkCity.com will break down the real estate sales for the past year and review the upcoming and ongoing improvements being made at each of the five private golf course communities in the area.

All of the local Park City area public golf courses are already open and the private courses will be open by Memorial Day. For specifics on a particular golf course community homes in Park City, UT contact the YouInParkCity.com Group at (888)968-4672.

Resort skiing at Park City’s three Resorts has ended for the season although the snow continues to fall. It is typical spring weather as we move from 50 degrees to a blizzard and back again in a 2 day period.

The Park City Chamber of Commerce Convention and Visitors Bureau statistics show that lodging nights were up for the season and city hall has reported higher tax revenues. Park City area real estate sales were right in step. While inventory levels are at their lowest in years, sales for the ski season increased and so did prices.

Total sales for this past season (homes, condominiums and building lots) were up by over 25% from the previous year.

The largest jump in sales was in building lots with 99 sales, nearly twice the 54 from the previous season. Low inventory and lower building costs have something to do with this as buyers gave up and have decided to build after home searches did not satisfy their desires. Distressed sales in the Hideout Canyon area made up 15% of the lot sales in the Park City area for the season. The median value of the building lots that sold remained steady with the previous year at $325,000.

Park City Condominium sales jumped nearly 20% while the median sales price rose by over 10%. The Old Town area lead the way with 50 condominiums sold during the ski season with a median sales price of $500,000. The overall Park City condominium market had a median sales price of $402,500. New construction sales near the Jordanelle Reservoir were also very strong.

Sales of single family homes for the ski season were also up from the previous year with a 12% rise in sales volume and a 10% rise in the median sales price. The Park Meadows area of Park City lead the way in sales with 22 and an average sales price approaching $2M and a median price near $1.5M. Single Family home sales in the other parts of Park City were also strong with the median sales price rising to $864,000 from $790,000 last year.

Real estate sales in Park City, UT are location specific and many factors specific to location should be considered when determining which area or subdivision is best for you. Contact a Park City realty professional with YouInParkCity.com at (888)968-4672 for more information.

This data has been derived from sales statistics as posted on the Park City Board of Realtors MLS using only statistics involving single family homes, condominiums, and vacant land in the greater Park City areas (1-23) for the periods of December 1st to April 15th of the past 2 ski seasons. Data is considered accurate, but not guaranteed.