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Colorado Home to Largest Population of Multigenerational Homebuyers

The popularity of multigeneration living is in flux throughout the nation, according to two recent reports. Colorado, along with Arizona and Nevada, had the largest increase in multigenerational households, which is defined by three or more generations who live in the same home. From 2014 to 2019, that increase went up 12.34 percent across the three states, according to a study from LendingTree. The NAR’s Home...

Net Zero Energy Code Pulled Back for Marshall Fire Rebuilding

Louisville residents and victims of the Marshall Fire protested the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code that would mandate rebuilding their homes with electric vehicle charging ports, higher insulation standards, and requirements to be “electric and solar ready.” Average cost estimates for a net-zero home rebuild could cost consumers anywhere from $20,000-$77,000 extra. The council is hoping its residents may still want to rebuild using the 2021...

Three New Wildfire Mitigation Bills Intro’d

The Wildfire Matters Review Committee brought three House Bills to the house. HB 1007 ends a tax deduction for property owners that offsets wildfire mitigation expenses. The deduction is replaced with an income tax credit beginning in 2023, which would be available to landowners with a taxable annual income of less than $120,000. Elizabeth Peetz, Vice President of CAR’s Government Affairs, stated the cap “removes the...

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Colorado’s Affordable Housing Plan

Many ideas await the recommendations from legislators on how to spend $400 million of COVID-relief money on how to make housing more accessible to more people. “We’re all saying it: This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to make investments in housing that we would never as a state be able to make in our own,” said Cathy Alderman, chief communications and policy officer for the Colorado...

Marshall Fire Renters Need Assistance, Too

Families renting homes, apartments, and hotel rooms because they lost their housing in the Marshall fire are struggling to make rent payments. Because some renters are still waiting to hear if property owners will pay to clean smoke and ash residue from their apartments, they are living in limbo, with remediation priced at thousands of dollars. During this challenging time, the Colorado Association of REALTORS®...

Homes for Sale in Marshall Fire Burn Area: 17 Under Contract within Two Days

Recent home listings in the Marshall Fire Burn areas are still selling over the asking price in a short time. There were 17 homes under contract that sold within two days of being on the market. The language in the listings reads differently than it did two months ago. “Instead of the remarks saying, ‘Great house, open space, and views,...

REALTORS® Announce $2 million relief grant for victims of Boulder County fires

Application process now open to displaced residents ENGLEWOOD, CO – The Colorado Association of REALTORS® Foundation has been awarded a $2 million grant from the REALTORS® Relief Foundation to be distributed to victims of the December 2021 fires that ravaged Boulder County, destroying more than 1,000 residential properties. Funded through donations from REALTORS® and REALTOR® organizations and administered by the Colorado Association of...

REALTORS® Start Community Housing Facebook Page for Marshall Fire

More than 3,000 people have joined the Facebook page, Marshall Fire Housing Needs and Availability, created by REALTORS® Susan Schliep and Amanda DiVito Parle. Schliep got the idea while driving home and remembering what her parents experienced after losing their home in Grand County’s East Troublesome fire in Oct. 2020. “Fourteen months after the East Troublesome and only two homeowners have rebuilt. And they got after...

Colorado Springs Fire Victims Remember Aftermath, Rebuilding

Colorado Springs REALTOR® Eddie Hurt remembers his home being destroyed in the 2012 Waldo Canyon: “In 2012, Colorado Springs home prices had been declining but leveled off by 2012 so that helped folks have sufficient insurance coverage,” he recalled. Fast-forward to 2022, and real estate in both the Colorado Spring and Boulder areas have seen home prices increase by about...

Northern Colorado Wildfire Homeowners Face Many Challenges to Rebuild

In addition to the historic low inventory in housing in Colorado, homeowners affected by the fire cannot rebuild quickly enough. “It’s going to take forever,” said Kelly Moye, CAR spokesperson and Boulder REALTOR®.  A home in the Denver metro area that once took 5 months to build now takes 10 months. In what the Associated Press is calling “Pandemic-era challenges,” the obstacles to rebuilding include labor...