It’s “Cruiseship Limbo Contest” winning low. It’s Barry White “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love” low. It’s “Bring out the charts and graphs!” kinda low. When you look at the housing market, it’s all relative. “Fewer people buying houses with a lot more people having to sell them”, that’s the kind of market we got used [...]
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Sell Your House in a Weekend? Happens every day
It’s a snowy March Monday. Getting ready to take some clients on round two of shopping trip for second showings of properties. The market is moving fast so there is no time to lose, especially if you’re going to list one home for sale and buy another. [...]
Denver Real Estate Trends 4th Quarter, 2012
I’d like to get all geeky on ya but I’ve brought the visual aids. Click below for the famous Your Castle Real Estate map of Central Denver to compare single family residential property values with the 4th quarter of 2011. You’ll see the percent of appreciation or decline, the days on market (DOM) and months [...]
Buying a Home in the Winter? You bet your ice skates!
After you’ve finished your holiday shopping, why don’t we go look for a house? The Denver winter has been mild so far and weather is still great for house hunting, but even in the snowy months I love me those cold weather clients! Most people think of buying or selling their homes in the ‘high’ [...]
The Mortgage Interest Deduction in Trouble?
How would it affect you if you could no longer write off the interest you pay on your mortgage? According to panelists at Friday’s housing forum hosted by Zillow and the University of Southern California’s Lusk Center for Real Estate: The burgeoning federal debt makes it unlikely that the mortgage interest tax deduction will survive [...]
WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER VACATION
It’s the third Monday of August and I can’t believe school started today. It never seems like there’s enough of summer, no matter how you fill it. This year we took off for New York the week after graduation, spent ten jam-packed & fun-filled days, and then returned to Colorado’s wildfires and 50+ days of [...]
“Home Sales Slow Slightly but Still Up”… see what I mean?
Every little thing is a big thing these days. Working our way out of the greatest economic downturn in recent history, combined with election year histrionics tend to create some confusing headlines. It’s like seeing a fire ant on the sidewalk, taking a magnifying glass to it and finding you’ve blown the damn thing up! [...]
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 [...]