What $425K Gets You in the Mountains: North Carolina, Colorado vs. New York
November 11, 2026 · Landian Weekly Deals
This week is all mountains. We put $425,000 on the table and went looking for the view: four mountain homes in four states, each with the kind of view people book a mountain trip for.
In North Carolina it buys a furnished chalet looking straight at the Smokies. In Colorado, a 2,700-square-foot house with snowcapped peaks off the deck. In New York, a condo close to Hunter Mountain's slopes in the Catskills. And the fourth home, a cabin near Yellowstone's doorstep, carries the biggest number of the week.
Each listing was verified active as of this issue, each is on Landian so you can tour or offer for a flat fee based on the home’s price instead of a commission, and every number below is an estimate; the note at the bottom applies to all of it.
Maggie Valley, North Carolina
A turnkey chalet looking straight at the Smokies
Price
$419,900
Home
2 bd · 2 ba · 1,025 sqft
Est. revenue*
$29,200/yr ($200/night · 40% occ.)
Gross yield*
7.0%
This chalet in The Overlook above Maggie Valley comes with the photo that sells the whole idea: a deck rail pointed down a corridor of layered Smoky Mountain ridges. Inside there's a vaulted-beam great room with a fireplace and a split-bedroom plan; outside, connected upper and lower decks and a brand-new roof. It's offered turnkey furnished, so the gap between closing and the first booking is a photo shoot. Maggie Valley is one of the Smokies' busiest vacation-rental valleys, about 40 minutes from both Great Smoky Mountains National Park entrances and from Asheville. Market trackers put nightly rates roughly between $180 and $260; we've modeled this one at $200 a night and a conservative 40%, about $29K a year.
Buying it through Landian costs a flat fee based on the home’s price instead of a ~2.5% commission, about $5,498 back on this one.
See the full listing & tour it →Bailey, Colorado
Room for everyone, with snowcapped peaks off the deck
Price
$425,000
Home
4 bd · 3 ba · 2,720 sqft
Est. revenue*
$44,676/yr ($272/night · 45% occ.)
Gross yield*
10.5%
The Colorado answer is the house that sleeps the whole group: 2,720 finished square feet, four bedrooms, three baths, a three-car garage, a level lot and an expansive deck with snowcapped peaks on the skyline. Bailey sits along US-285 about an hour southwest of Denver, on the way into the high country. It's in unincorporated Park County, which licenses short-term rentals; the county is revising its rules for 2026, so read the current ordinance before you offer. AirDNA tracks Bailey at about $272 a night, and occupancy estimates run from about a third to more than half depending on the tracker, so we've modeled it at $272 a night and 45%, about $45K a year.
Buying it through Landian costs a flat fee based on the home’s price instead of a ~2.5% commission, about $5,626 back on this one.
See the full listing & tour it →Hunter, New York
A ski condo close to the slopes of Hunter Mountain
Price
$383,000
Home
2 bd · 2 ba · 1,302 sqft
Est. revenue*
$36,135/yr ($300/night · 33% occ.)
Gross yield*
9.4%
The New York answer is a ski condo listed just in time for the season: two bedrooms and two baths at Hunter Mountain's Trailside Condominiums, with high ceilings, a bright open layout and the slopes close by. Hunter is the Catskills' big ski mountain, about two and a half hours from New York City, and ski weekends and leaf season are when city renters book. The Town of Hunter has permitted short-term rentals under its own law since July 2023. Two-bedroom rentals here run roughly $290 to $335 a night with town-wide occupancy near a third; we've modeled this one at $300 a night and 33%, about $36K a year on a $383,000 ask.
Buying it through Landian costs a flat fee based on the home’s price instead of a ~2.5% commission, about $4,576 back on this one.
See the full listing & tour it →Island Park, Idaho
A cabin near Yellowstone with the week's biggest number
Price
$424,000
Home
4 bd · 2 ba · 1,879 sqft
Est. revenue*
$51,100/yr ($350/night · 40% occ.)
Gross yield*
12.1%
And the surprise state, Idaho, carries the biggest number of the week. This remodeled and expanded four-bedroom cabin sits in the pines of Shotgun Village in Island Park, on the road to Yellowstone's west entrance, where winters are for snowmobile trails and summers for fly-fishing the Henry's Fork. Idaho law bars cities and counties from banning short-term rentals. AirDNA puts Island Park near $456 a night at 57% occupancy; other trackers run lower, so we've modeled it at $350 a night and 40%, about $51K a year, a 12.1% modeled gross yield on a $424,000 ask.
Buying it through Landian costs a flat fee based on the home’s price instead of a ~2.5% commission, about $5,601 back on this one.
See the full listing & tour it →Same budget, same setting, four different answers: the Maggie Valley chalet is the turnkey, the Bailey house is the group-sized one, the Hunter condo is the ski weekend, and the Island Park cabin carries the biggest modeled revenue. Whichever mountain is yours, buying it through Landian costs a flat fee based on the home’s price instead of a ~2.5% commission; that's the difference you see in each card above.
Next week: the beach.
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