San Miguel County’s real estate market showed some encouraging figures last month, as it was the second biggest October in history, in both number of sales and dollar volume of sales, and it brought 2012 year-to-date sales figures to their highest point since the record-setting year of 2007.
According to statistics compiled by Telluride Consulting’s Judi Kiernan, the number of San Miguel County real estate sales in October reached 46, a 70 percent increase from the 27 sales that were recorded in the same month last year. That figure also comes close to the record 2007 October figure of 49.
In terms of dollar volume, October sales reached $49.1 million, which is an increase of 132 percent over the $21.2 million sold in October 2011. So far this year (through October) a total of 355 properties changed hands, marking a 9 percent increase from this time last year. The year-to-date dollar total of $261.1 million is a 22 percent increase from 2011.
“2007 was our biggest year ever in terms of dollars and sales numbers, and the fact that this is the next best year to date, I think it’s significant,” Kiernan said. “We are not back to 2007 but it is a big step forward. It is important to say that we have come back from a really terrible start to the year.”