Rent Control coming to Colorado: your property taxes will skyrocket

Rent Control coming to Colorado: your property taxes will skyrocket

Denver rent has skyrocketed.  A one bedroom in 2010 leased for 800, fast forward to 2018, that same one bedroom is now leasing for 1457 a month, a 79% increase.  The legislature has taken up the fight with SB 19-225 that will reverse a 1981 Law that prohibits local...
You have no Fracking choice! Your million-dollar house is worth a whole lot less

You have no Fracking choice! Your million-dollar house is worth a whole lot less

Don’t think this impacts you?  Take a look at the map above of the Denver front range.  “When Bill Young peers out the window of his $700,000 home in Broomfield, Colo., he drinks in a panoramic view of the Rocky Mountains. Starting next year, he may also glimpse...
Home prices fall in Boulder, Denver and Douglas counties. Is it a blip, or a trend?

Home prices fall in Boulder, Denver and Douglas counties. Is it a blip, or a trend?

  If you missed the headline in the Denver Post, it sounds like the sky is falling.  Boulder’s average sales price is down 2.7%, Denver 1.2%, and Douglas 2.1%.  Are lower home prices on the way?  Is this the beginning of the next cycle?  How accurate is the...
Amazon ditches NY for HQ2, Colorado will be a big winner

Amazon ditches NY for HQ2, Colorado will be a big winner

NY provides 3 billion in incentives to land Amazon.  Colorado offered 100 million.  Amazon selected NY only to break up with them this week and ditch their expansion plans.  Colorado will be a big winner of this recent breakup.  Sounds like the recent Bezos love...
Denver loses its shine and secures spot on moving out list, 24% want to go!

Denver loses its shine and secures spot on moving out list, 24% want to go!

Redfin, the online brokerage, released their recent search volume report which shows Denver is losing it’s “mojo”.  Denver topped the list of metros people looked to leave, posting the highest net outflows in the fourth quarter. 24% of all users were searching to move...
New Colorado initiative that could destroy Colorado real estate

New Colorado initiative that could destroy Colorado real estate

There is a new initiative in town to drastically limit growth in one metro Denver City.  Lakewood just won major litigation that had derailed a “growth initiative”  that limits new residential development to 1% of the existing housing stock.  Why is this important? ...