The Denver rental market is more than just healthy; it’s got a rosy glow. With vacancy rates low, prices for rental properties have risen and according to Poppy Harlow of CNN’s Early Start, Denver is one of the top five cities for rent increases, 10.9% over the past twelve months. That’s great news if you’re [...]
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News That’s New to the News…
Well, look who’s coming back around. With all due respect for the “Respected Media”, it looks as if they finally got the memo. Though real estate, like the weather, is hyper-local the mainstream types reporting on the national outlook finally figured out that the housing market is growing again. Both The Wall Street Journal and [...]
Shining Light on the Shadow
Yesterday I read an article in the Denver Post which lead with, “Colorado could be facing new wave of foreclosures”, intimating a pending flood of the so-called “Shadow Inventory”. “Could” being the operative word. First, let’s define this Shadow Inventory: the number of properties that are either REO or 90+ days late on their mortgage [...]
First Time Home Buyers in Denver Get a Little Credit
Are you a first-time homebuyer but missed that big tax credit? Are you tired of paying rent or is your rent being raised to astronomical limits? So let me ask you this… If you thought you could get a good deal and a $2000 tax credit, would you like to own a house in Denver? [...]
Denver’s Hot Real Estate Market?
Saying The Denver real estate market is hot is like saying that the U.S Congress works together in perfect harmony…except, the first statement is true. It will take a while before Denver home buyers believe it, but it is a Seller’s market…and a buyer’s market, too. Huh? It sounds like a paradox but in fact [...]
This Time I Mean It!
Real estate agents tend to be positive thinkers. Over the past five years the Denver real estate bubble burst, the national housing market went bust, and we searched high and low for good news to share with our clients. Sometimes there wasn’t any. We worked longer and harder to save struggling homeowners, to make impossible [...]
Death and Taxes… again
Hopefully the first is a long way off, but the second is looming once again. Whether you have an accountant on staff, go to the national tax franchise or are a DIY kinda guy/gal, some of these resources might help. I learned a long time ago, never to attempt doing my own hair or my [...]
“Inspect Yourself”
…with all due respect to the Staples Singers You’ve found the perfect house! Redone tip-to-toe! That kitchen with the gleaming stainless and the leathered granite is perfect, the master suite, divine, and the water feature will provide a soothing soundtrack for starlit summer nights on the back patio. It’s your dream house… until you see [...]
BABA RAM DASS AND THE REAL ESTATE MARKET
It took Dr. Richard Alpert, Timothy Leary and countless hits of LSD to learn one simple truth: Be Here Now. So what can the psychologist-turned-spiritual guru, Baba Ram Dass, teach you about today’s Denver real estate market? BUY. HERE. NOW. With nary a trace of mind-altering substance in sight, I can honestly tell you that [...]
The New Year’s Rainbow and the Housing Market
I tend toward optimism. The New Year is always quite appealing. It’s not that I believe there will be a sudden, magical turn in the way life works, ushered in by a herd of unicorns; I like the New Year in the same way I like clean, white sheets. January is filled with energy, coming [...]