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Cold Hard Facts
Since I am a numbers person, I always like looking at numbers to examine what is going on in a market. Whether it's looking at historical trends to predict future trend lines, or just examining numbers to be able to gauge the past, numbers never lie. So let's take a look at what the Crested Butte real estate sales number show us.
In 2005, CB real estate had a banner year, closing $333 million in transactions. We all know what happened next, after the Mueller's 2005 purchase of CBMR (as subsequent sale to CNL) and the economy's downturn, the numbers all went south. 2006 yielded a total of $209 million in transactions, 2007 $200 million, 2008 $114 million, 2009 85 million and 2010 bottomed out at $84 million in sales. 
I say bottomed, because the numbers are starting to show that we are coming out of the sales slump and sales numbers are starting to increase. As of the end of September 2011, we have had $82 million in sales, vs. $61 million for the same period in 2010. New construction has been sneaking into our lives again with a number of new projects in town this summer, including a spec ... more

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