If you have been intrigued by owning a ski in ski out luxury chalet, a Colorado mountain ranch, or a slope-side mansion, Vail and Aspen are ready and waiting for you.

Never before has there been so much luxury inventory available that would have never reached the market in the ski resort real estate boom years of the last decade; and, to make the pie even sweeter, there is a plethora of brand new and newly reconditioned state of the art properties lining the streets of these ski towns.

In addition, most properties are selling for thirty to forty percent less than their all time highs.

As the article below suggests, this might be the most opportune time for luxury real estate in the Colorado Rockies.

2010 will probably not be looked at as a comeback year for real estate, yet with all that is happening in the Vail Valley, Eagle County real estate is slowly recovering far above the pace of the national real estate economy.

January through May and June totals for Vail Valley real estate sales showed a two hundred percent gain compared to last years real estate dollar volume and transaction numbers were up 179% from 2009.

Earlier this year, The Denver Post wrote a story about the thaw in ski mountain real estate sales throughout the Rockies during the first quarter of 2010; this seems to remain the case with the Vail Valley leading the ski resort comeback with strong numbers in April and May.

With several brand new major Vail ski properties now ready to occupy and an opulently reconstructed ski village, the 2010 summer months should show more improvement in transaction numbers and will absolutely be on pace to break the billion dollar sales volume threshold once again.

There are also other outstanding factors that will contribute to Vail's second home real estate comeback.  Vail Resorts has announced several new upgrades for Vail Mountain 2010/2011 ski season and Vail and Beaver Creek were just awarded the 2015 World Alpine Ski Championships for the third time in twenty years.

If you have been considering a second home in the Vail Valley, this summer may be the time to start your Vail real estate search.

Ski Resort Towns across the western United States have shown a modest recovery over last years horrific real estate sales volume statistics in 2009.  If this trend continues through the summer, we can safely say that ski resort real estate is on the mend.