Many home buyers are now opting to bypass Park City in favor of properties located on the city’s outskirts, near smaller towns like Heber City, Midway and Kamas. There has been an explosion of luxury home developments in these areas, some new and some that have been filling up over the past decade, offering both golf courses and ski amenities—everything from shuttle buses and on-mountain private lodges to private ski hills. The interest is creating new million-dollar towns.
Prices continued to rise in most luxury ski towns this past year, but none grew as much as Park City, a former silver mining town 32 miles east of Salt Lake City. The average home sale price there grew 35% in 2023 from 2022, compared with a 9.4% increase at Vail and Beaver Creek and 3.2% at Aspen, according to the resort report by Summit Sotheby’s International Realty.