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 By: Dallas Heltzell | Bizwest BOULDER — Despite accepted benchmarks that would suggest otherwise, a prominent broker is firm in his belief that for residential real estate in the Boulder Valley, “it’s a buyer’s market.” Even so, Todd Gullette wonders what those buyers are [...]

 By: Lisa Marie Conklin | Realtor.com Homeowners often love to humble-brag about various aspects of their abode, from the size of their primary suite to just how many cars can fit in their garage. But the latest boast has nothing to do with square [...]

 By: Duane Duggan | At Home Colorado The 30-year mortgage has been the mainstay of American homebuying for decades. The 30-year mortgage came about as a result of the housing crisis of the 1920s. Back then, a typical mortgage was three to five years [...]

 By: Alise Evans | Land Title Guarantee Company (via IRES MLS and RE Colorado MLS) September 2023 Across Weld County, prices for single family homes slightly decreased when viewed month-over-month but still remained higher than what we saw in 2022. New, active, and pending [...]

 By: Ken Amundson | BizWest Housing price appreciation was described as a mixed bag in June, and in May prices slipped a bit. Now for the third month in a row, median home prices as recorded in sales of single-family homes in Northern Colorado and the Boulder [...]

 By: Christopher Wood | BizWest GREELEY — Weld County added more residents than any other county in Colorado from July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2022, accounting for 36% of the population growth in the state overall. Add in population growth for Larimer County, [...]

 By: Duane Duggan | At Home Colorado If you own your personal residence in Colorado, you have probably noticed that your recent tax assessment increased by a large percentage. If you are planning to sell your home in the near future, the increased appreciation [...]

 By: Tiffani Sherman | Realtor.com This small, metal home in Oklahoma is big on style. Efficiently designed and minimalist in architecture, it offers plenty of room for growth. The newly built, 830-square-foot dwelling sits on 5 acres in Luther. It’s available for $314,000. “An architect and owner got [...]

 By: Duane Duggan | At Home Colorado The real estate investment market can move very quickly. When an attractive investment property comes up, there will often be multiple offers in the first few days on the market. Therefore, as an investor, you need to [...]

 By: Duane Duggan | At Home Colorado Most people consider their single-family home they live in as an investment in real estate. In fact, when they fill out a financial statement, it is even listed as an asset. It’s true that the home will [...]

 By: Judy Dutton | Realtor.com Although the fall season is traditionally the best time of year to buy a house, homebuyers out there right now might not feel that way—and for good reason. We looked at the latest real estate statistics in our column “How’s [...]

 By: Judy Dutton | Realtor.com The fall housing market is beginning to show its true colors—and so far, the outlook appears rosier for both homebuyers and sellers. Real estate is typically seen as a zero-sum game, where a homebuyer’s gain is a seller’s loss, and vice [...]

 By: Jay Kalinski | BizWest For much of the past year, many “expert” economists kept insisting that the inflation that we were all experiencing was due to pent up demand from the pandemic and would be temporary, limited, and confined to only a few [...]

 By: Alise Evans | Land Title Guarantee Company Weld County saw an increase in prices with the average single family home up 1.6% from June to $559,499. The median closed price was also high at $500,000, an increase of 11.1% when compared to this [...]

 By: Hannah Jones | realtor.com As the best time to list your home for sale approaches, you may be wondering which home features catch the eye of buyers. To answer this question, we used property views data for homes with certain features to analyze the preferences [...]

 By: Daily News | REALTOR Magazine More than 50% of prospective buyers recently surveyed say they feel optimistic about the housing market—despite headlines over rapidly rising costs that can feel discouraging. The new survey from the real estate tech company OJO Labs shows that [...]

 By: Janet Siroto | Realtor.com If you’re shopping for a new home now or are hoping to this spring, you probably feel your heart racing a little. The word is out: Mortgage interest rates are on the rise. This means for the same size [...]

 By: Scott Horsley | NPR The Federal Reserve is paving the way for possible interest rate hikes next year, in an effort to contain stubbornly high inflation. At the conclusion of a two-day policy meeting Wednesday, the central bank announced plans to phase out [...]

 By: Julia Carpenter | The Wall Street Journal, via Realtor.com With home prices climbing to a record, this year’s housing boom left some hopeful buyers frustrated, discouraged and stuck with a big lump sum of cash. Home buyers typically save between 5% and 20% for a [...]

 By: Duane Duggan | At Home Colorado Most people start investing real estate by buying their personal residence. Yet the majority of Americans will stop there in terms of building their real estate portfolio. This is because when people are motivated to buy their [...]

 By: Colorado Association of REALTORS ENGLEWOOD, CO – Aug. 11, 2021 – From the fast-paced acceleration of the express lanes to the pump-your-brakes gridlock of metro-area highways and weekend mountain traffic, Colorado’s housing markets are demonstrating a similar range of activity, as well as [...]

 By: Devon Thorsby | US News The U.S. entered 2021 with pandemic fatigue, though it hadn't – and still hasn't – slowed down homebuyer activity. The first months of the year have seen rapid growth in home prices as low inventory of houses on the market [...]

 By: REALTOR Magazine The U.S. housing market is on a hot streak with double-digit annual gains in home prices, bidding wars, and surging buyer demand. That type of soaring housing market is prompting more “bubble” fears in some corners, but economists say the housing [...]

 By: CAR (Colorado Association of Realtors) A U.S. District Court judge for the District of Columbia ruled Wednesday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s nationwide eviction moratorium is unlawful, striking down the ban and delivering relief to housing providers who haven’t been [...]

 By Brad Clarkson Home values in Weld County are up over 130% since 2018. It's a good time to be a seller in Colorado! Check out the stats: Weld County Stats

 By Melissa Dittmann Tracey More house hunters—particularly move-up buyers—are being drawn to new-home construction in the COVID-19 pandemic, so much so that it’s driving a surge in construction across the country. Single-family starts ended 2020 with the best year in home building since the [...]

 By Tom Kalinski, Broker/Owner, RE/MAX of Boulder Real estate sales records across Colorado shattered and median home prices hit record highs in July, according to the latest monthly housing data from the Colorado Association of REALTORS® (CAR). A record 10,771 single-family homes sold statewide [...]

The housing market came roaring back in June, as low mortgage rates and increased economic activity helped push sales of previously owned homes up 20.7% from the prior month. Demand was strong from apartment renters seeking more space, young families moving to the suburbs [...]

Mortgage rates hit a 3-year low, with more rate drops in sight Mortgage rates reached their lowest point in three years, sitting at 3.45 percent as of February 27, 2020. Though the Federal Reserve’s surprising rate cut isn’t expected to affect mortgage rates, financial experts believe [...]

Homeowners experienced a wild ride over the past decade. Ten years ago housing prices were down nationwide, then recovered and surged ahead. “It has, in fact, been the most consequential stretch in American real estate history, one that has fundamentally altered the landscape,” according to [...]

Greeley was recently recognized as one of the most prosperous and robust developing cities in the country by financial technology company SmartAsset. SmartAsset ranked Greeley fifth on its annual list of Top 10 Boomtowns in America. The rankings center on cities where populations and job [...]

The years 2007 to 2012 were pretty rough for homeowners across the nation. Boulder County didn’t suffer nearly as much as other markets, such as Las Vegas and Phoenix, where homes lost a considerable amount of value. Boulder County has experienced a strong real [...]

Last week I had the privilege of listening to a presentation by John Covert, senior director of the west region for Metrostudy. His company consults with hundreds of homebuilders – as well as lenders, developers, investors, suppliers, utilities, school districts, and local governments — [...]

Is sustainable housing just a real estate buzz word or is it actually happening in the real estate industry? Sustainable housing is a multi-faceted and evolving term encompassing eco-friendly construction and design with low environmental impact and higher energy efficiency. It also entails lasting [...]

Recent forecasts suggest that the real estate market in Greeley, Colorado will continue to see home-price gains through 2019 and into 2020. That’s not surprising, when you consider that Greeley is one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the country. Positive Forecast for [...]

Boulder stands tall when compared with much larger metropolitan areas that excel in innovation and entrepreneurship. A report produced by the Boulder Economic Council compares Boulder with leading innovation centers including Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Austin, Boston, Seattle, Portland, Denver and Raleigh.  Though these [...]

Good news to share with clients. On Jan. 1, buyers will be able to get much larger mortgages, whether they’re applying for conventional or FHA-backed loans.Each year, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac adjust their limits for conventional, conforming loans based on changes in median home [...]

January - September 2017It's fall and in the 3rd quarter of 2017, the real estate market in Boulder County is shifting and becoming more balanced compared with last year. Inventory for single-family and attached dwellings grew and home prices increased.Read More >> [...]

by Andy Smith, Adviser, Chrisland Real Estate Cos., Fort Collins The Foundry in downtown Loveland is a $75 million mixed-use project developed by Brinkman in partnership with the city of Loveland. Courtesy the city of Loveland It is no secret that nearly every product type of [...]

by Jeff Thomas A view looking west at UCHealth Greeley Medical Center and UCHealth Greeley Hospital on Sept. 19. The hospital is expected to be completed in 2018. Joel Blocker / For BizWest As Horace Greeley was perhaps most famous for saying, “Go west, young [...]

by Doug Storum LONGMONT — More than $4.3 million worth of contracts have been awarded to eight area companies for construction of the Village at the Peaks shopping center in Longmont. NewMark Merrill Mountain States, developer of the $90 million, open-air retail project that [...]

By Aldo Svaldi The Denver Post Property values across the metro area, both residential and commercial, have skyrocketed, and property owners should brace themselves for higher property taxes in the years ahead. Assessors must value property in the state every two years, and are [...]

by Doug Storum FORT COLLINS — A law firm wants to build a three-story office building on a site that currently has a single-family home at the edge of Old Town in Fort Collins. Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather LLP wants to replace [...]

by Doug Storum LOVELAND — Front Range Medical Holdings LLC has purchased a building in the Foxtrail Office Park in Loveland for $3.3 million, which it will use for doctors’ offices. Denver-based Regis University, which has been leasing space in the building at 1605 [...]

Home buyers need to move fast if they want to spend less, notes Jonathan Smoke, chief economist at realtor.com® in commentary at the site. “Delayed purchases will only result in higher monthly mortgage payments as prices and rates rise,” Smoke writes. Realtor.com® is forecasting [...]

By John Wendorff Have you taken time (yet) to review last year? If not, chances are that 2015 will end up looking like 2014 did. So, if you’re satisfied with last year, skip the rest of this article. However, if you ended 2014 with [...]

by Doug Storum EVANS — The city of Evans is leading the redevelopment of a 12-acre parcel of land it recently purchased in hopes of sparking the revitalization of a much larger area along U.S. Highway 85 that is sprinkled with blighted properties. The [...]

by Doug Storum FORT COLLINS — Realtor Eric Thompson expects home prices will increase in Northern Colorado in 2015, driven by diminishing supply and increasing demand for homes in what he calls a “healthy Northern Colorado economy.” Thompson, president of Windermere Real Estate’s operation [...]

by Doug Storum NIWOT — Alpen High Performance Products LLC, a manufacturer of energy-efficient windows, has leased space in the Boulder Tech Center off Colorado Highway 52 in Niwot as it returns operations to Boulder County. Alpen has leased 30,000 square feet of a [...]

By Kevin G. Hall and Lesley Clark RISMEDIA, Friday, January 09, 2015— (TNS)—President Barack Obama moved Wednesday to make it cheaper for first-time and younger buyers to take out a mortgage. Obama lowered the mortgage-insurance premium for borrowers who have a down payment of [...]

by BizWest Staff GREELEY – The Weld County Board of Commissioners on Monday closed on the $5.5 million purchase of the Chase Plaza building in downtown Greeley. The building at 804-822 Seventh St., near the Weld County Courthouse and Justice Center, was purchased through [...]

By: Angela Colley If you’ve had past credit problems or can’t save up enough to cover a large down payment, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may have just cut you a break when it comes to getting a mortgage. Stricter credit score limits, large [...]

by Doug Storum GREELEY — The Greeley City Council voted 6-0 Tuesday night to annex approximately 68 acres of land east of the city in unincorporated Weld County. The property, owned by Michael Bliss of Bliss Produce Co., is on the south side of [...]

by Joshua Lindenstein GREELEY – California-based real estate developer Cress Capital LLC announced Tuesday that it has purchased the 27-acre Ironwood Business Park in Greeley, where it plans to build six more industrial buildings. Cress managing partner Art Smith said his company paid E.E. [...]

by Joshua Lindenstein Published In Real Estate Today’s News BOULDER – The former Twin Peaks Mall and former Butterball turkey plant gain most of the attention when it comes to redevelopment in Longmont. But part of the city’s vision for revitalizing the south end [...]

By Tom Kalinski The national real estate market is headed toward balance with inventory on the rise and existing-home sales increasing in June, reaching an annual pace of 5 million sales for the first time since October 2013, according to the National Association of [...]

RISMEDIA, Tuesday, August 12, 2014— Builder confidence in the single-family 55+ housing market for the second quarter is up year over year, according to the recently released National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) 55+ Housing Market Index (HMI). Compared to the second quarter of [...]

By Doug Storum FORT COLLINS – The Redtail Ponds affordable-housing project in Fort Collins is set to move forward after receiving $16.9 million in financing. The financing package was put together by U.S. Bank, the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority and the Fort Collins [...]

By Dave Pettigrew The local residential real estate market is all about the inventory of homes for sale – or, better said, the lack of homes for sale. The normal calculation is an average of the last 12 months of home sales divided by [...]

By Joshua Lindenstein The area housing market experienced a boost in the number of single-family detached home listings from February to March but is still down significantly from the same month a year ago in most communities as the total number of sales also [...]

By Trevor Hughes Authorities have given the go-ahead to launch commuter bus service between Fort Collins and Denver, with a stop in Loveland. They are also preparing a similar service between Colorado Springs and Denver, and service running along Interstate 70 from Glenwood Springs [...]

By Joshua Lindenstein BOULDER – Developers have submitted to the city of Boulder amended plans for the former Golden Buff Lodge hotel site to make the project fall in line with the new hotel franchises slated to go there. Those hotels include an Embassy [...]

By Joshua Lindenstein BOULDER – Boulder-based real estate development firm ElementProperties LLC and Sopher Architects LLC submitted concept plans with the city of Boulder this week on a proposed redevelopment of the former Sutherlands Lumber Co. site that could cost up to $180 million. [...]

By Business Report Staff Foreclosure auction sales declined 80 percent in Weld County and 76 percent in Larimer County during October from the same month last year, the Colorado Division of Housing said Monday. Foreclosure auction sales amounted to 15 in Larimer County in [...]

By: Neal J. Leitereg Key fixed-mortgage rates fell to their lowest levels in four months this week, with further declines predicted in the short term. The federal government’s shutdown and ongoing concerns with the economy’s recovery, particularly the Federal Reserve’s decision to continue its [...]

FORT COLLINS – CSU has selected Denver-based Mortenson Construction as the lead contractor for its proposed on-campus stadium. Mortenson was one of seven bids made on the project. Those companies who submitted bids were interviewed earlier this month, with their submittals analyzed by a [...]

Just One More Reason to Hire a REALTOR

By: Credit.com Best of Advice: We Are Self Employed, Will We Be Able To Get A Mortgage? Planning on getting a home loan anytime soon? Before you do, you should know that there are two types of loans that are inherently higher in cost [...]

> View from Landmark ‘Dam Store’ at the mouth of Big Thompson Canyon. Hwy 34 damaged by flooding water through the Canyon. Loveland, Colorado. September 17, 2013. (Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post) By Allison Sherry The Denver Post WASHINGTON — Colorado’s congressional delegation is racing [...]