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How Much Does Park City Real Estate Appreciate?

October 15, 2024 — Explore Park City Living With John Brown

With the Olympics ten years out, everyone wants to speculate about where Park City prices are going. I'd rather show you where they've actually been. I pulled median-sale-price appreciation for every major neighborhood over the past 10 and 20 years — which means the 20-year numbers include the 2008 crash, and none of it includes an Olympics. This is the floor, not the hype.

The headline numbers

The greater Park City area has averaged about 12% annual appreciation over the past 10 years and 9.16% over 20. For comparison, Salt Lake's east bench — Avenues to Draper, east of 700 East — ran 8.83% and 6.32% over the same windows. Park City has outperformed the state's strongest metro corridor in both periods.

Neighborhood by neighborhood (10-year / 20-year)

What I take from the data

Three things. First, the consistency is the story — nearly every neighborhood compounded 9–12% annually for a decade, which is why "waiting for a better price" has been the most expensive strategy in Park City. Second, the 20-year averages absorb a full housing crash and still land between 5% and 9.4% — that's the durability argument. Third, the winners aren't only the trophy zip codes: Prospector and Jeremy Ranch beat plenty of luxury neighborhoods, because full-time-living demand compounds just as hard as resort glamour.

And all of this happened without an Olympics on the calendar. I'm not promising 2034 repeats the post-2002 run — but the base case, built on twenty years of receipts, is strong enough on its own. If you want the appreciation history for a neighborhood I didn't cover here, ask — I've got the data.

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