Jon & Kim Penny
Broker Associates

Well, we can tell that we are getting into the busy part of the year.  We have 4 new listings that will be going on the market in the next week.  (You can look under “Our Listings” to view those properties as they go active.)  We spent yesterday morning at a listing appointment walking property boundaries on a beautiful Durango day.  We feel very blessed to live and work where we do.  We also feel blessed by all the wonderful people that we meet and come across in this industry.  We were still able to make time for a road ride yesterday afternoon.  It was chilly, but the sun was out and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky.  We will leave you with a picture that Jon took from his phone during our ride yesterday.

The Durango Area Association of Realtors came out with the year end sales stats for La Plata County.  You can view the stats by clicking on this link:  2006 year end stats.  You can also go to www.DurangoRealtor.com to check out the 2006 sales stats by quarter.  Our company sales were down 2.7% compared to 2005, but 2005 was also a record year.  All in all, our market was strong in 2006 and this year is off to a healthy start!

Hello everyone and welcome to the “Blog” portion of our website. We are new at this, so you will have to bear with us as we familiarize ourselves with this program. We are going to use this feature to keep you up-to-date with what we are doing, the Durango Real Estate market, and Durango in general. Hopefully this will allow you to get to know us a little more personally, and what we enjoy doing when we aren’t selling Real Estate! If you ever have any comments or suggestions about what we can do to make our site more user friendly, please don’t hesitate to contact us! This site is for your use and to aid you in your home buying/selling process, we want it to be as helpful as possible. We will end this first entry with a picture of Jon and I snowshoeing up at Molas Pass last weekend. I (Kim) had knee surgery about a month and a half ago, so it was the first time we had been up in the mountains this winter. It was BEAUTIFUL!