Peter

History Colorado, a new state-of-the-art museum that mixes high tech, interactive exhibits with treasures from Colorado’s early days, will hold its grand opening on April 28, 2012.

The Society of Colorado Pioneers, formed in 1866, wanted future generations to remember and celebrate their achievements. The state created the State Historical and Natural History Society in 1879 and gifted it $500 to collect and publicize Colorado’s heritage. The society eventually found office and More...

Judy

As the winter soltice approaches, afternoon dusk will play the early visitor. Daylight is officially shortened. Adjusting to the dark? The brilliance of less daylight, is discovering what we can do with darkness…light it up!

A quick drive around the micro neighborhoods of this late autumn/ early winter wonderland will lighten any life. Larimer Square is dazzling in a canopy of white lights that stretch the entire city block. Cherry Creek North is wired in tiny white lights along More...

Dee

Metro Denver Home Prices on the Rise

Denver real estate appears to be making a comeback.  According to published reports, the median sale price for single-family homes in metro Denver rose 7.3 percent last year to $235,000.  Condominium sale prices rose slightly from $135,000 to $136,000. 

The 2010 price rise in single-family homes occurred even as the number of sales declined from 2009.  For the month of December 2010, homes listed for sale totaled 18,867, More...

Lance

Metro Denver Housing Market Poised for Rebound in 2011

What goes around comes around.  Projections for metro Denver’s housing market in 2011 are reminiscent of the market in 1989.  Twenty-two years ago, the Denver housing market was still reeling from the collapse of the energy markets and overbuilding as a result of oil prices hitting $65 a barrel.  When oil prices collapsed to around $12, the housing market collapsed as well. 

The Denver area was More...

Larry

Most Common Denver Relocation Question

It just happened to me again this morning. I was asked a bunch of the Top 10 Denver Relocation Questions out-of-town buyers want answered.

When folks first consider moving to Denver it can seem to be a daunting task. There’s so many questions. Imagine a job requires you to move to a new city. Imagine More...

gretchen

Colorado May Gain More Than 10,000 New Jobs in 2011

Steady economic growth next year may allow Colorado to gain 10,100 jobs in 2011, according to the annual Colorado Business Economic Outlook just released by the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business.  The forecast, recently reviewed in the Denver Post, also states that the job increase will not be enough to match projected population growth of 79,100. 

The report says that most sectors of the More...

Dee

Pending Home Sales Increase in October

A recent analysis of pending sales of homes rose 10.4 percent in October due to attractive housing affordability conditions, according to an article in the Denver Post.  However, activity needs further improvement to reach a healthy level, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

The NAR’s pending home sales index rose to 89.3 in October from 80.9 in September.  The 10.4 percent gain is the largest on More...

Lance

Home Prices in Denver Area Drop 1.2 Percent in August Compared to 2009

Home prices in the Denver area dropped 1.2 percent in August from the same period last year, according to the latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released on October 26th. According to an article in the Denver Business Journal (DBJ), it was only the second time since last October that the closely-watched Case-Shiller report failed to show a year-over-year increase in metro Denver home More...

Lance

Special Report Cites Metro Denver as a Real Estate Market to Watch

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, a leading financial services firm, in conjunction with the Urban Land Institute, recently issued is 32nd commercial real estate study titled “Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2011” report.  The report ranks Denver 11th among U.S. cities on a list of real estate markets to watch for commercial and multi-family investment. 

In the survey, as reported by the Denver More...

Peter

Men everywhere dream of a space that is all their own and the garage seems to be the place!  In some homes, it is a much better place than just a man-cave. In fact, there are 299 homes on the market in all of the Denver Metro area right now that have 6 or more garage spaces! I know you car lovers take this stuff very seriously and many of these have serious prices, but there are even a few that will leave you More...