Breckenridge Real Estate Outperforms Financial Markets

Breckenridge real estate has outperformed the financial markets for over a decade. Within the last 2 years this has accelerated especially with regards to the current financial banking crisis. The future looks extremely bright in this regard for the future too. Total build out for Breckenridge and Summit County is forecast to occur within the next 8 years which will reduce the supply of available property. Breckenridge is the most visited ski area in North America, vying for this position with its sister area, Vail. Yet currently, real estate prices are nearly half of those in Vail. Breckenridge is a convenient one hour 45 minute drive to Denver International Airport and within 30 minutes free bus trip or drive to the ski areas of Keystone, Copper Mountain, Arapaho and 45 minutes drive to Vail and Beaver Creek.

Breckenridge Snow Sculptures

The teams start the process of creating their incredible scultpures from a huge snow cube that is about 10 feet high.  They are not allowed to use powered tools.  It all has to be done by hand and takes 6 days to finish. There is strategy involved as the day time temperatures during the week can vary considerably. If they get to far into the sculpture too early and the temperature is warm, there is a great risk of it collapsing. So some years they can leave much of the sculpting almost until the last day and work all through the night to finish for judging the next day!

Breckenridge Snowsculpture Preparation

The Town is preparing for the 2009 Breckenridge International Snowsculping Championships. These massive cube forms are assembled by crane and then filled by using a giant snowblower that a front end loader pushes mountains of snow into. Quite an operation!

Snow!

This winter has been a record winter with regards to snowfall to date. It just keeps on coming. The last time it snowed this much for this time period was 10 years ago! The skiing is awesome, and fantastic lodging deals are to be had this year due to the slowdown.