May 4, 2021
Silver sees influx of residents – but not 6,320 households Written by Geoffrey Plant on May 4, 2021
Town Manager Alex Brown clarified Monday that a 396 percent increase in water and sewer “connections” over the past year doesn’t represent 6,320 new physical water or sewer connections, but rather reflects that many new water and sewer accounts combined.
Connections to the town’s water and sewer systems are counted separately by Silver City.
Since most people living within the town establish both water and sewer service, Brown said that a little more than 3,000 household accounts are probably represented by the increase. This fiscal year’s numbers show 5,045 more water and sewer service accounts than were established the previous fiscal year, when there were just 1,275 new ones.
January 22, 2021
Existing homes selling out, land sales predicted to rise Written by Makayla Grijalva on January 22, 2021
Unlike other parts of the economy that struggled through 2020, the pandemic posed little problem for the real estate sector in Silver City.
Aside from a blip when the initial strict pandemic-related restrictions began, several Silver City Realtors said that 2020 was an overall good year for the real estate market and predicted good fortune would continue in 2021. Land sales, in particular, are expected to grow as the number of homes for sale shrinks due to high demand.
※Personally, I had about a six-month lull when the pandemic started where it got pretty slow, but it more than picked up from about September until the end of the year,” said Robin Thomas, the 2021 president of the Silver City Regional Association of Realtors. ※And we are definitely seeing the same activity goi