Home sales in northern Colorado took off in June after the easing of coronavirus-related restrictions on the real estate market, with homes in Fort Collins, Loveland, and Greeley selling at a record pace.
“The buyers didn’t go away (earlier this year),” Fort Collins-area REALTOR® Chris Hardy told KUNC. “They were on intermission.”
However, Hardy acknowledge some homeowners have been slow...
Denver-area REALTOR Matthew Leprino recently spoke with REI INK about Denver's booming residential real estate market despite a dip during the COVID-19 shutdown.
Leprino notes that the State of Colorado classified construction as an essential business, which most likely helped cushion the slide in the market as a result of coronavirus. He also said that many buyers weren't as concerned with...
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ENGLEWOOD, CO – July 10,
2020 – With pent-up demand and low inventory conditions prior to the COVID
pandemic, the continued opening up of business and personal activities
statewide created a surge of activity across Colorado’s housing markets
resulting in new record highs for pending sales and driving the inventory of
active listings to record or near record...
Roar of record-setting pending sales reflect the opening up of restrictions and strong demand across Colorado’s housing markets
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ENGLEWOOD, CO – June 10, 2020 – Virtual tours, virtual open houses, sight unseen purchases, and virtual closings have helped shape a new reality for real estate transactions across the...
The COVID-19 pandemic may be hitting the economy hard, bringing the highest national unemployment rate since the Great Depression, but median home prices defied the odds and jumped 3.1% year over year last week, according to realtor.com® housing data for the week ending May 23. That’s double the 1.5% annual increase for the previous week.
The National Association of REALTORS® recently...
Why do people decide to stay or leave a community? A new joint survey from the Urban Institute and the Knight Foundation seeks to find the true motivations behind Americans’ choices for places to live. The survey of more than 11,000 consumers was conducted before the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are a few highlights from their findings:
Quality of life matters in people’s decisions...
“In spite of the inability to show homes and the stay-at-home order, our market remains strong,” Kelly Moye, a Boulder-area REALTOR®, told CBS 4. “We’re still a little bit early right now … everything looks just peachy as if nothing happened.”
“I think a lot of folks were maybe expecting a larger shift than occurred when, in fact, it wasn’t...
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ENGLEWOOD, CO – May 12, 2020 – While the real estate universe paused with bated breath in April, the results of a complicated, pandemic-driven start to the typical buying and selling season weren’t nearly as bad as many in the industry feared, according to the latest monthly market data from the...
Denver, CO – April 27, 2020 – The Colorado Department of Local Affairs’ (DOLA) Division of Housing (DOH) awarded $9.5M through the Colorado State Housing Board (SHB) for affordable housing and 80 new recovery-oriented housing vouchers with $144,000 of support services in March and April, and received $3M to provide COVID-19 housing relief across Colorado.
Governor Polis signed Executive Order...
March numbers reflect a pause to the momentum of a healthy first
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ENGLEWOOD, CO. – April 10, 2020 – From a cold and snowy Colorado February to the COVID-19 pandemic in March that has impacted virtually every person and every community, the state’s residential real estate market found a way to persevere with...
