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What kind of people are opting to buy now at Granby Ranch…with 55 sales last year, the fastest selling new resort community in the Winter Park/Grand County area? “These are people that are basically choosing to spend time with their kids or grandkids now, rather than waiting for whatever the market looks further into recovery,” said Jennifer Colley, sales director at Granby Ranch, at SolVista Basin ski area, 15 minutes beyond Winter Park.
Colley will show you two single-family ranch homes in Granby Ranch, each of them close enough to the runs that residents can ski-in on the last run of the day, that have short-sale prices worked out between their builder and the bank: $340,000 and $370,000 — way, way below their original list. And she’ll give each of your family members that tours a free day lift ticket to explore SolVista Basin’s slopes and terrain parks.
Both No. 325 and 515 Lone Eagle Drive are new 3-bedroom, 3-bath homes, down the slope north from SolVista’s ‘Home Again’ run…and are served by Granby Ranch’s shuttle service that delivers residents the mile down to SolVista’s base mountain lodge. Both homes have garages (one is 2-car oversized) … along with covered front porches, wide-open dining/entertaining areas, rear decks, and finished basements.
“It’s a great value from the business side,” said Jaye Thompson, branch president of Colorado Community Bank in Castle Rock, lender on Lodgepole Homes at Granby Ranch. “For a location on this side of the (Eisenhower) Tunnel, you’re not going to go anywhere else; it’s the best value you can get.” Thompson, who owns his own family resort home in the Winter Park Area, added that Granby Ranch has the added value of providing a serene location with less traffic, and with an unmatched package of amenities that are wrapped into the HOA dues.
You can see all of those during your tour – including SolVista’s family-friendly base lodge (this year it’s marking its highest ski visitor traffic ever) with its well respected ski school, Seven Trails Grille where residents hang out at days end; and a new, popular pool-and-hot tub that opened alongside residents’ fitness center just before Christmas. Residents also have the rest of Granby Ranch’s 4-season amenities – including a private club with bar/grille and fireplace overlooking the base; scenic Headwaters Golf Course that spills down the valley from the ski base (with two family knock-around holes behind the back-nine, plus championship bike trails at SolVista Bike Park, and a 4-mile-long trout lease that winds along the Fraser River. The ownership package includes full season passes to the ski mountain, four foursomes a year on the course, plus fishing and other access.
Colley notes that the two homes – the last new homes available in their Eisenhower Camp neighborhood at Granby Ranch – provide a perfect family-friendly ski experience, plenty of challenge for average adults, fun for teens, and where younger kids can ski with little supervision. “When you want something more ambitious, Winter Park and Mary Jane are only twenty minutes away,” she added. To tour the Lodgepole homes at Granby Ranch, take U.S. 40 west from I-70, 43 miles (15 miles past Winter Park) to Village Road, then east two miles, just past the ski base, to the Mountain Preview Center.
If you go…
WHERE: Lodgepole Homes at Granby Ranch, single-family resort homes at SolVista Basin ski area; 2 remaining 3-bed/3-bath homes w/garage, bank-set short-sale prices; ski-in plus shuttle service to base; 1 free ski pass for each family member that tours. 999 Village Rd., Granby; from I-70 take U.S. 40 west 43 mi. (15 mi. past Winter Park) to Village Rd., right 2 mi., just past ski parking to Granby Ranch Mountain Preview Center
PRICE: Two remaining homes, $340,000, $370,000
WHEN: Today & Saturday, Sunday & daily 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
PHONE: 970-887-5250 WEB: GranbyRanch.com
Mark Samuelson writes on real estate and business; you can email him at mark@samuelsonassoc.com. You can see all of Mark Samuelson’s columns online at DenverPostHomes.com
