My realtor rolled her eyes and declared it a "dumpito"—a little dump—and was so appalled when I announced I was going to buy the place that she didn't speak to me for a year. The 70-year-old house at the end of a short dead-end lane in Sa Read more...

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Pete McBride renovates his Basalt, Colorado home. Read more...

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After three decades of haphazard, build-as-many-condos-as-we-can-fit-at-the-base-of-the-mountain construction, developers are returning to one of the original attractions of mountain towns: the town itself. Read more...

For most of recent memory, buying a first or second home near a strong ski resort was a sure thing. In Eagle County, Colorado, (home to Vail and Beaver Creek) home values rose 105 percent in the 1990s and 72 percent since 2000. Read more...