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2020 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers Colorado Report

The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers is an annual survey of recent home buyers and sellers who purchased in the last year, from July 2019 to June 2020. This report allows industry professionals to gain insight into detailed buying and selling behavior. While every year is a unique time capsule where buyers and sellers purchase...

Gen X, Millennials Likely to Keep Home Buying Strong for Years to Come

Between 2018 and 2028, the number of households is projected to increase by up to 12 million. Generation X and millennials are expected to drive most of that household formation. As they replace dropped households over that time, the two generations could add nearly 25 million new households by 2028, according to the CoreLogic Insights Blog. The largest cohort of...

Buyers Impersonate Pac-Man Gobbling Up State’s Housing and Driving Active Inventory to a New Record Low

ENGLEWOOD, CO – Oct. 12, 2020 – Forty years after the release of the iconic Pac-Man video game, and a doubling of the state’s residential population to 5.8 million, Colorado house hunters have created their own version of the hungry, energy seeking video character, gobbling up available housing while frantically maneuvering through the residential market maze – all while trying...

July Home Sales Shatter Records; Nearly Double from May to July Driving Median Pricing to Record Highs Across Colorado

Contact:   Marty Schechter for CAR 303-882-4585 cell  marty@schechterpr.com    ENGLEWOOD, CO – Aug. 12, 2020 – A record number of single-family homes sold in July have shattered state records and driven median home prices to record highs as well, according to the latest monthly housing data from the Colorado Association of REALTORS® (CAR). Despite another strong month of new listings,...

Colorado resort towns see flood of home buyers, burst in school enrollment

By Jason Blevins, The Colorado Sun Urbanites fleeing cities for homes in the hills are pulling mountain resort real estate out of a pandemic slump. Inventories are dwindling, prices are soaring and resort-town schools are seeing enrollment climb as second-home owners and newcomers settle in places like Steamboat Springs, Vail, Crested Butte, Telluride and Aspen. Telluride REALTOR® George Harvey is...

Home Prices Up Across Colorado Despite Snowy, Cold February

Winter weather doesn’t slow home sales as buyers gobbled up record low inventory ENGLEWOOD, CO. – March 11, 2020 – A growing number of homes coming onto the market in the first few months of the year, coupled with a cold and snowy February, wasn’t enough to offset pent-up demand from buyers ready to gobble up available single-family homes and...

Buyers Drawn to ‘Right-Sizing,’ But Also Leery of Losing Space

Moving to a smaller space is not just for empty nesters and retirees anymore, says Sheri Koones, author of Downsize: Living Large in a Small House (2019, The Taunton Press). Younger people are embracing a smaller footprint as well. “Younger couples … who are both working, they’re having children later, they want to be active and they don’t want to be doing...

Supply of Homes for Sale Is Shrinking Across Colorado, Not Just in Denver

“Our Colorado market has become so tough and unaffordable that the U-Haul report showed that people are now coming here less than they were just last year. In 2018 Colorado ranked number 16 on the list of states to move to. We now sit at 42 as word on the street is, we cost too much,” said Patrick Muldoon, a...

iBuyers: What REALTORS® Should Be Doing Now

You could say that iBuyers and their effect on the real estate industry is this year’s hot topic. A panel comprised of industry experts discussed the iBuyer phenomenon at this month’s Fall Forum in Beaver Creek, CO, and offered insight into ways REALTORS® can survive in an ever increasingly competitive industry. Brandon Wells, President of The Group, Inc., explained that...

September Housing Market Trends: Home Sales Decline as Colorado Housing Markets Work to Find Their Sweet Spot Amid Seasonal Challenges

Regional and Statewide Statistics Contact:  Marty Schechter for CAR 303-882-4585 cell marty@schechterpr.com ENGLEWOOD, CO. – Oct. 10, 2019 – Single-family home sales across the state fell more than 14 percent from August to September but remain up 9.1 percent over September 2018 in the seven-county Denver metro area and 5.3 percent statewide, according to the latest monthly market data from...