Nestled among the mountains in southwestern Montana is the small city of Bozeman. It has experienced a boom in recent years, with an influx of people moving there. More than 58,000 people now live in Bozeman, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Gallatin County, where the city is located, has over 126,000 residents. Bozeman is also home to a dynamic and lively real estate market. "Obviously we’ve seen nationally a shift in the real estate market since 2023.
There’s only around 4,000 people that live in Big Sky year long, and there’s restaurants there that still have shoulder seasons. And so people will come to Big Sky and ski or come in the summer, and they fall in love and they buy a home, and then after a year, they’re going, ‘I can’t go to the same 10 restaurants," so they’ll come to Bozeman," she said.