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Raich Montana Properties LLC Listed in the “2011 America’s Best Brokerages” issue of The Land Report

Posted March 22, 2012

This publication is known as “The Magazine of the American Landowner”. In this issue leading land brokerages in the US are listed by region. Raich Montana Properties LLC is listed under brokerages in the West (page 49). Each real estate firm is required to provide a compilation of transactions for the year, and share the firm’s business philosophy and provide market insights.

Here’s a recap of the magazine listing for Raich Montana Properties LLC:

Who: Raich deals in ranches and recreational properties in Livingston Montana’s Paradise Valley.

Philosophy: As a one-person firm, her focus is on personal attention for each client instead of handling a large volume of transactions.

Raich’s Market Insight: Raich enjoyed a steady business during the year. She predicts there will be continued investment in this market which may result in a depletion of inventory leaving a scarcity of truly amazing ranch and recreational properties in Livingston’s Paradise Valley.

2011 Sales: <$50 Million Category, with transactions totalling $17.1 Million in 2011 (The Land Report’s computation method).

Mission Field Airport – Montana’s Airport of the Year

Posted March 7, 2012

Mission Field Airport recently received the “Airport of the Year” award from the Department of Transportation. Mission Field was one of a handful of airports nominated for the award in 2011. There are 120 public-use airports in the state. Mission Field which was built in the 1950’s underwent a $3.5 million renovation project last summer. The Federal Aviation Administration funded most of the project cost.

Twenty-five planes are based at Mission Field, and the runway services approximately 9000 take-offs and landings per year. Livingston HealthCare uses the airport for approximately 6-10 emergency flights each year and the National Park Service, National Forest Service and the Army Corps of Engineers also use the airport.

http://tracyraich.com

http://www.fltplan.com/AirportInformation/LVM.htm

“Painting John” (by Dear Friend Audrey Hall) Nominated for Award at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

Posted January 28, 2012

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Painting John Nominated for Coveted Big Sky Award at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

Painting John

Running Time: 10:28

MONTANA—January 26, 2012—Photographer Audrey Hall’s elegant film making debut, Painting John, screens at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana on February 21, 2012 at 9PM in the Wilma Theater and is nominated for a coveted Big Sky Award.

The documentary follows nomadic portrait painter Hugh Wilson, formerly of Wall Street, as he travels through the depths of winter to the solitary Montana ranch of senior bachelor John Hoiland. The men feed Hoiland’s Hereford cows in the snow-laden landscape, then Hoiland sits for his portrait. As the two unlikely friends interact we glimpse the painter’s creative process and his subject’s life.

Shot by Hall, a 20-year veteran of still photography, with the assistance of one camera intern, on a “budget of gas and tuna fish sandwiches,” Painting John illustrates Hall’s ability to exploit the possibilities and limitations of her equipment. Using two digital single-lens reflex cameras (the Canon 5DMarkII and Nikon D7000), minimal tracking shots, a short depth of field, natural light, little dialogue, and one shotgun microphone, the effect is like stepping into a Winslow Homer painting—vivid, crisp, serene.

Hall’s light and deft touch reflects her decades spent behind the lens, and also her worldliness. Born in Brazil, she split her childhood between Bozeman, Montana, and her family’s “fazenda” in Latin America. Imprinted with agricultural landscapes and people, she portrays their character and texture through her work.

With a sound track by Moby and local Montana musician Stuart Weber, Painting John is a homegrown masterpiece, an unsentimental, yet beautiful portrait of two lives and the landscape that binds them.

While in Missoula, Hall will be participating in the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival’s Filmmakers in Schools program.

-Seonaid B. Campbell
http://www.seonaidbcampbell.com/

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/

BSDFF 2012 Film Selections:
http://bigskydocff.blogspot.com/

Bright Metropolitan Markets

Posted September 19, 2011

There are bright spots in the real estate market! The National Association of Home Builders’ First American Improving Markets Index reveals that key metropolitan areas have shown recent improvement in housing permits, employment, and housing prices.

“Despite the challenging conditions in the national economy and housing sector, there are areas throughout the country where we are seeing pockets of improvement,” said Bob Nielsen, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder from Reno, Nev. “Housing conditions are local, and do not always reflect the national picture. We created this new index to shine a light on those housing markets across the country that have stabilized and have begun to show signs of recovery.”

This is a vast improvement over last year’s numbers, which showed no growth at all. Today, there are 12 areas seeing growth.

These growth markets are calculated by analyzing Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) growth numbers, house price data from Freddie Mac, and permit data from the U.S. Census Bureau. According to the NAHB, “A metro area must see improvement in all three areas for at least six months following their respective troughs before being included on the improving markets list.” This index is designed to track housing across the country in order to identify areas of improving economic health.

“It’s not surprising that many of the states represented are energy rich areas,” says NAHB chief economist David Crowe. “Those are the regions still experiencing relatively strong employment, supporting housing demand.”

Louisiana had three markets on the list and Texas had two. Thanks to certain strong market segments, some Southern markets hit less hard by the ailing economy.

The improving metropolitan markets are found all across the country, though.

Alexandria, LA

Anchorage, AK

Bangor, ME

Bismarck, ND

Casper, WY

Fairbanks, AK

Fayetteville, NC

Houma, LA

Midland, TX

New Orleans, LA

Pittsburgh, PA

Waco, TX
These figures are welcome news after recent reports of stock market jitters, declines in consumer confidence, and weak housing prices. The United States has many diverse markets and micro-economies. Time will tell if more areas are added to this growing list.

Source: Realty Times, Carla Hill Author
Published: September 8, 2011

Barney Creek Ranch Featured in Farm & Ranch West

Posted September 1, 2010

In Paradise Valley, the world is a breathtaking canvas of natural beauty conveyed in layers: towering mountains, sloping foothills, extensive valleys and a roaring river that shapes and gives life to it all—a scene perfectly scripted and infinitely inspiring.

Once owned by American novelist and screenwriter Thomas McGuane, III, Barney Creek Ranch was a place of inspiration, a private retreat where he bore witness to the ever-changing American West: its storied past and its uncertain future. Today, one thing is certain. Barney Creek remains a place where natural beauty and historic buildings still dominate the landscape, vastly untouched.

“It’s exceptional. There’s really no other way to describe it,” said Tracy Raich, owner of Raich Montana Properties, LLC and a consistent top seller in the southwestern Montana real estate market. “You can see beauty throughout Paradise Valley, but Barney Creek really lets you live it. This is one of the most exceptional recreational properties of this size to come on the market.”

The New York Times Great Homes and Destinations features “Award Winning Montana Retreat” in their article “What you get for $725,000”.

Posted May 25, 2010

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