Buying A Home: A Denver Real Estate Transaction Timeline

Buying a home is a process with many steps. Knowing what hurdles you will encounter will make buying a home more enjoyable and less emotionally challenging.

Denver Specifics: Farmers Markets Around Denver

What a busy summer.  Not too busy to check out a farmers’ market.  I went looking for times and found Nina Davidson’s About.com guide a good starting place: Top Five Farmers’ Markets in Denver. Of course we like number 3 (as it’s short bike ride away from our home), although number 2 isn’t a long drive [...]

Denver Market Specifics: Still Bullish on Home Ownership in the City

I offically declare 2008 the year of the first time home buyer in Denver. Is this too bold?  Perhaps, but maybe it’s not that contraversial of a statement anyway. I was watching a Real Estate broadcast about depreciation risk, and reflecting on who it most impacted.  I looked up the three month old article to remind myself the details from the original [...]

What is going up in Denver. New construction in the beloved city.

I have been enjoying www.denverinfill.com and its blog.  Talking to some comercial real estate friends, they tell me the author has really made a name for himself, and it’s clear why.  It’s fascinating to see all the plans for buildings that might fill in our skyline.   I have to admit, I find this post particularly humorous.

Denver Real Estate Specifics: Carbon Monoxide Detectors Could Become Required By Law

State Senate Bill 187 would require Carbon Monoxide Detectors in all homes sold after July 1st!  Not just new homes, but any home sold.  Apartently from the 9news article I read, the bill has just been brought out of committee, which means it has several steps before becoming state law. As far as I can tell, [...]

Denver Real Estate Specifics: Help before foreclosure in Colorado.

After seeing a great article in the local Greater Park Hill News, I checked into the state’s foreclosure prevention campaign.  Apparently run by the Colorado Housing Counceling Coalition, the primary support they are providing is a toll-free hot-line (1-877-601-4673) that connects concerned homeowners with free counseling to help them avoid foreclosure.  They even have a video on [...]

Denver Real Estate Buyer: Going Green From Closing On

Most of us in Real Estate realize that there is a huge amount of paper shuffled as a house changes hands.  Anyone who has been through the process can recall the writers crap from just signing all the paperwork involved at a closing.  While these documents are all legalese and need to be fairly specific to [...]

January 2008 Real Estate Statistics for Northern Colorado

REAL ESTATE STATS
Total properties closed in January dropped 15.6%.  The average sales price went down by 3.6% again due largely to the foreclosed properties.  Million dollar properties sales in units were up 2.2%.  Listing inventory is up only slightly by six tenths of a percent.
ANALYSIS
Winter trends continue in Denver, and the affect of foreclosures [...]

Denver Market Specifics: A Video Report on Foreclosures in the Colorado Real Estate Market by CNNMoney

The tag-line caught my eye: Rocky Mountain Foreclosures.   The report is sobering to be sure.  The link below the video was entriging as well: 100 Worst Hit Zip Codes.  On the December 2007 focused list I found 80013 (Aurora) at number 47 to be the only Colorado zipcode listed there.  I was disheartened to see a Sacramento zip-code (95823) at [...]

Denver Rental Markets Stand Strong

Rental markets in Denver haven’t changed much over the last year (according to the Denver Business Journal), and owning rental property in City Park or Park Hill is still looking like a good idea.  A quick review of a couple dozen rental adds from City Park rental properties (on craigslist) shows that (depending on location, size, and quality) a good rental can [...]