And don’t we all need a little good news? Working in the real estate trenches I’ve been watching the steady turn around, especially evident in 2012 as the Denver real estate market took a sharp turn for the better. Today’s Denver Business Journal announced the data to back up my experience. Colorado’s housing market stands [...]
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Real Estate: It ain’t about the bagels.
Fortunately, my office meetings aren’t like that. One of the reasons I moved to Your Castle is because they’re widely considered the local experts in the Denver Metro real estate market. We don’t waste time with the corporate clap-fest and weekly prize winners, our sales meetings are chock full of market data, which lays out [...]
Get Your Ducks in a Row Before You Go Hunting
There was a time, early in my real estate career, when I would take buyers out “window shopping”, testing the waters to get a feel for what my clients liked, before they had talked to a lender. More seasoned agents would scoff, “I don’t let a buyer in my car if they’re not pre-qualified!” I [...]
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 [...]
Who Puts the Dream in Dream House?
I grew up in a Dream House; a California Contemporary, resting in the shadow of a graceful Fredrick L Roehrig home, built for publisher Andrew McNally in 1893. This home gave birth to the future Spanish Colonial Revivalist master, Wallace Neff, and was his childhood home. You can see from the picture where he took [...]
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? [...]
Do As I Say: Easy Home Improvement Projects, Round I
Looking for to the warming weekends but not quite ready to head to the high country? Here’s a “Honey-do” list that will slough off those winter blues and spring you into the season. Whether you are preparing to put your home on the market or just want to lighten your spirits without breaking the bank, [...]
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 [...]
The Buyer/Seller Love Connection
I am (where real estate is involved) lucky in love. I’m not talking about the beach house I got in the last divorce *winks* but how often I find Cupid at the closing table. It takes work to find a house with everything on your buyers’ wish list, but it’s nothing short of kismet when [...]