The Tipping Point: From Luxury Rentals to Home Ownership

While the name “Jackson Hole” is often the impetus for visions of holiday ski sabbaticals, seasonal reunions with area wildlife, and escapes into the refined portfolio of mountain eateries, astute visitors are finding that owning a home in Jackson Hole is as increasingly pragmatic as it is desirable. Navigating the transition between high-country guest and high-country home owner, The Clear Creek Group has created an ecosystem in which the tipping-point between renting and home ownership is a fine line preciptiously balancing between financial means and emotional desires.

The past fifteen years have seen a dynamic maturation within the local real estate market where a veritable “perfect storm” of limited development opportunity and high demand has culminated into a community of buyers whom
are inexorably dedicated to place. “Our home buyers are anything but speculative.” explains The Clear Creek Group’s Founding Principal and Responsible Broker, Phil Stevenson. “The demand is Jackson Hole and our guests are motivated by the extraordinary sense of community found here. Our ability to foster relationships built upon a sense of mutual trust and respect is tantamount to who we are.”

In the dichotomy between renting and home ownership The Clear Creek Group has emerged as a highly qualified team of specialists – anchored in the company’s history as a full service real estate firm. Sales Associate, Reynolds Pomeroy, describes the company’s multi-service appeal as one rooted in an unremitting benchmark of excellence: “Guests that rent from us have come to expect a certain standard from The Clear Creek Group. When the time comes to buy a home, they know that they will find the same level of care in our real estate sales team. Our reputation for personalized care and attention to detail has led nearly half of these clients to become property renters themselves.”

A series of robust overhauls to Jackson Hole’s Airport have resulted in the valley’s emergence onto the world economic stage, and home ownership in Teton County and the decision to buy, is no longer a simple question of practicality but one of necessity. TCCG Associate Broker, Janet Helm, has a poignant way of putting it; “In the last 15 years Jackson has changed in so many ways. In terms of real estate. In terms of community. In terms of industry. It will continue to change. However, so much of what makes Jackson great has remained. The mountains are the same. The wildlife is the same. Our passion for going the extra mile will remain the same.”