Happy New Year!!   With the two weeks around Christmas and New Year’s coming to an end, our “sleepy little town” is looking forward to a little break in the action before the next weekend rolls around.  We haven’t seen the final numbers yet, but for those of us who have lived up here for a significant amount of time can tell you, it was the busiest Christmas season we can remember!  I think there were several things that contributed to that:  a good economy, some  well-timed snows (including one early Christmas morning that brought us a beautiful White Christmas), and all the improvements and season passes brought about by Aspen/KSL (the new owners of our local resorts).  As of this morning, our single-family residence inventory in the Big Bear MLS is down to only 412 cabins (about 75% of where it was at the peak last Summer) and continuing to fall. Below are the statistics for the month of December. The total number of sales was a little lower last month, but that is very common for December, as many sellers want to keep a last couple of days at “ultra-prime” rent and many closings get pushed into January because of the holidays and lender/escrow offices being closed.

Have a great weekend!!