DVC Resale Market’s Disney News for September 2018

The city that The Walt Disney Company turned into a tourist mecca is feuding with the theme park inexorably associated with it. Yes, Anaheim and Disneyland are in a public tiff, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg in this month’s Disney news. Downtown Disney Hotel Project on Hold Over the past year, Disney’s […]

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Guide to Boulder Ridge Villas at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge

A Brief History of Boulder Ridge Villas at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge The history of Boulder Ridge Villas is a bit convoluted. It’s a hotel that The Walt Disney Company built in 1994 that didn’t add Disney Vacation Club (DVC) inventory until 2000. Then, Disney changed the name of the existing villas in 2016 while announcing […]

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DVC Resale Average Prices for 2018: January – July

This article represents our 4th installment of providing average Disney Vacation Club (DVC) resale selling prices for 2018 (1st Installment: April, 2nd Installment: May, 3rd Installment: June). DVC resale buyers easily have a good idea of listing prices by simply browsing the current listings. However, we are often asked, what are contracts selling for? At […]

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DVC Resale Market’s Disney News for May 2018

The Walt Disney Company has announced a lot of exciting changes at their various theme parks over the past month. They’ve also introduced some new features at the parks and on the My Disney Experience app. They’ve even broken the most important of all movie box office records. Let’s take a look at Disney’s most […]

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DVC Resale Market’s Disney News Update for April 2018

Hello, fellow DVC members! The past month has featured a series of exciting announcements about The Walt Disney Company. Let’s recap what you might have missed. New Toy Story Experience at Disney’s Contemporary Resort Do your children love the characters from Toy Story? Of course they do! Would you like some alone time during your […]

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DVC Price Increase Pushing Some Resorts Over $200 Per Point!

Disney Vacation Club will be adjusting many DVC resort prices per point effective January 17, 2018.  With the exception of Vero Beach, all resorts considered “sold out” and “live” will be experiencing price increases. For the first time ever, a few DVC Resorts will be priced in the 200’s per point:  Polynesian, Grand Floridian and […]

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DVC Right of First Refusal (ROFR): August ’17 Report

In the month of August, Disney exercised their right of first refusal (ROFR) on 21 of 227 contracts sold through the DVC Resale Market, representing 9.3% of the contracts sold.  This raises the year-to-date (YTD) buyback rate to 7.8%.  In August, the buyback rate increased nearly 300% month to month, going from a rate of 2.4% in […]

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DVC Right of First Refusal (ROFR): April ’17 Report

Summary In the month of April, Disney exercised their right of first refusal (ROFR) on 14 of 220 contracts sold through the DVC Resale Market, representing 6.4% of the contracts sold.  This lowers the year-to-date (YTD) buy back rate to 9.6%.  April marked the 2nd month in a row for the buy back rate to drop, pushing […]

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Wishes Fireworks Spectacular Glowing Away and More News You Need!

Welcome to the News You Need! February brought us a bunch of exciting openings and some announcements about closings that made us a little nostalgic. Let’s take a look at some of the news that will affect how you vacation at the Disney parks. Pandora Gets an Opening Date For more than five years, James Cameron […]

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DVC’s Boulder Ridge Villas and the Coming Soon Copper Creek Villas & Cabins

When is the latest Disney Vacation Club resort not the newest DVC resort? The answer is when The Walt Disney Company in its infinite wisdom chooses to repurpose an existing property’s space in order to construct new villa options. Specific to 2017, it’s when Disney’s Wilderness Lodge, a Four-Diamond award-winning resort, undoes some of the […]

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