5 Tips to Be the Winning Buyer for Your Denver Home

If you’re buying a Denver home, be forewarned: this is not last year’s housing market and the rules for buyers are shifting with the housing turnaround. Here are five new tenets that all serious buyers should heed. Skip the Lowball Offer – In this improving market, you’ll do better asking… Read More »

Higher Rental Rates Are Good News for Denver Investment Property Owners

The numbers bear it out. People really do want to live in Denver  over other places in the country. Nothing shows this more clearly than the increased demand for rental units, the large uptick in rental charges, and the plunging apartment vacancy rate in theDenver area. A report from the… Read More »

Stealth Tactics for Buying a Denver Home

If you’re hunting for real estate in Denver, you may need to consider a new tactic: stealth. In markets where available homes have dwindled or listings come and go quickly, some home buyers are skipping the MLS and working behind the scenes with agents and/or directly with sellers. This is… Read More »

METRO DENVER REAL ESTATE MARKET UPDATE – APRIL 2012

The Market is Shifting Buyers are coming out of the woodwork looking for homes, but not finding much to choose from, especially in the under $300,000 price range.  We are counseling buyers in this price range to be ready to jump quickly on any house that comes on the market… Read More »

Green Features for Your Denver Home

The phrase “Going Green” puts a variety of images into people’s minds. Some may envision a house built entirely out of recycled soda bottles. Someone else might imagine a house powered completely by wind turbines. Whatever your idea of green real estate is, the simple truth is that you don’t… Read More »

Bidding Wars Mean Good Things for Denver Housing Market

Attention anyone who’s currently hunting for a Denver home. The buyer’s market is on its way out, home prices are starting to rise, and you might just find yourself in a bidding war for the house you’ve chosen. The last time bidding wars were common was back in 2006; then… Read More »

Hispanic Homebuyers Could Help Denver and the Nation

A new report by the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals suggests that the country’s Latino population may play a huge part in turning around the housing market. This is great news for potential homebuyers in Denver and other U.S. cities. This report, “The State of Hispanic Home Ownership… Read More »

Rent vs. Buy a Denver Home – Study Says Buy in Denver

Lately, everyone has been shouting from the rooftops about what a great time it is to buy a home in Denver and other major U.S. cities. And now Trulia has provided some serious statistics that confirm all the yelling with their Trulia Winter 2012 Rent vs. Buy Index. This year’s… Read More »

METRO DENVER REAL ESTATE MARKET UPDATE – MARCH 2012

Well, the word on the street continues to be “Inventory, Inventory, Inventory!” Very few times in history have we seen our inventory drop to these kinds of levels without a major shift occurring in our marketplace!  The Pendulum is now starting to swing back in the favor of sellers. The… Read More »

Denver Employment Forecast is Good News for Denver Home Sellers

Once again, Denver residents have something to brag about. The most recent quarterly Manpower Employment Outlook Survey shows that employers in the metro Denver area will both continue to hire and hold off on staff reductions. This makes Denver-Aurora the fifth best employment area in the country. A Manpower spokesperson… Read More »