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Blog The Votes Are In   Real estate buyers made their voices heard last month and made a clear choice for…  higher-end properties! One of the interesting dynamics of our current market is the significantly- increased activity in higher price ranges. The combination of high equity and low-interest rates is clearly causing people to move up.  They are able to purchase […]
Blog Brand New Market Report                             The latest quarterly report from our Chief Economist Matthew Gardner is now available.  Here is a quote from the report with his take on the Front Range economy: What a difference a quarter makes! Following the massive job losses Colorado experienced […]
Blog Supporting Our Communities                   Our heart goes out to all the people affected by the wildfires along the Front Range and in our mountain communities. We are also so appreciative of the brave men and women who are helping protect people and property from the fires. We want to help […]
Blog Million Plussing The luxury market is very active right now.  Buyers in the high-end are taking advantage of low interest rates and the equity they have built in their prior homes. Closings of million-plus single family homes are up significantly along the Front Range. When compared to this same time last year, sales of properties in this […]
Blog 6 Million The National real estate market just hit a massive milestone.   Based on the numbers through August, we are now on pace to sell 6 million homes.  This is the highest pace we have seen in 14 years.   The 6 million threshold is a big deal in the real estate brokerage world.   Each […]
Blog Pendings are Popping Temperatures may be cooling off but the Front Range real estate market is not.   Typically the market starts to slow down a bit in the Fall after a hot Spring and Summer.   Not this year.   The indicator we use to measure future closed sales is current pending sales.   Simply, we look at […]
Blog Forbearance Falls The number of loans in forbearance just fell to their lowest level since mid-April.   This is good news for the real estate market.   Less and less people are seeking payment relief on their mortgages.   The number of loans currently in forbearance stands at 7.16%.   This news coincides with the U.S. Unemployment […]
Blog New Home Surge Sales of new homes have jumped to their highest levels in 14 years.   The annualized rate of single-family new construction homes is now at 901,000 according to the new Census Bureau report.   This means that across the U.S., at the current pace of sales, there will be almost 1,000,000 new homes built and […]
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Blog Price Report The Federal Housing Finance Authority just released their most recent quarterly report which tracks home price appreciation in the top 100 metropolitan areas in the U.S. plus appreciation in individual states.   Some significant findings from the report:   House prices have risen for 36 consecutive quarters, or since September 2011.   House prices rose […]
Blog At Least List Periodically we track a stat which we find to be quite interesting.   It answers this question – how many properties are selling for at least list price (asking price or higher)?   This stat tells us how active the market is and helps our buyers to realize that, in some cases, they will be […]
Blog Rebound The Case-Shiller Home Price Index tracks appreciation in the 20 largest real estate markets across the U.S.   Their most recent quarterly report was just released this week.   Metro Denver prices are up over last year by 3.89% which is just slightly higher than the average of the 20 markets.   It is interesting […]
Blog Spring in Summer This year the Spring market is occurring in the Summer.   Typically the busiest months for real estate along the Front Range are April, May and June.   This year, because showing activity was restricted in the Spring months, we are seeing robust activity this Summer.   Here’s an indicator.  Sales through July 2020 versus […]
Blog Buyer Contemplation New research from the National Association of Home Builders:   The number of Americans contemplating purchasing a home in the second quarter of 2020 is nearly the same as 2019’s second quarter, according to NAHB’s Housing Trends Report.   At this time last year, 12% of Americans considered buying a home. Today the number stands […]
Blog Housing Math It’s interesting to look at what population growth means for housing.   On average, along the Front Range, 2.5 people live in each housing unit.   What that means is 4 housing units are needed for every 10 people who live here.   So, for every 1000 new people moving to our area, 400 new housing units […]
Blog More Homes Needed The market is in short supply.   More homes are needed to fulfill the need to buyer demand.   Compared to exactly one year ago, the supply of homes is down: 32.6% in Metro Denver 25.1% in Northern Colorado An interesting and useful measurement we track is months of inventory.  This stat tells how long […]
Blog Caught Up We’ve been waiting for June to catch up.  It finally happened (almost).   Back in April, real estate activity was significantly limited and the showing of property was restricted which caused the number of closed properties in May and early June to be much lower than last year.   Bottom line, fewer properties going under […]
Blog Rate Meaning Mortgage interest rates have hit another record low this week.   Mortgage applications for purchases just hit an 11-year high.   Rates are at a level that many people could never have imagined.   Here’s something that is surprising to many people…   Rates are 1.5% lower than they were just two years ago.   Here’s […]
Blog Tight Inventory The numbers that we find to be most interesting right now are all related to inventory.   Long story short, inventory is tight.   It was already tight pre-coronavirus and now it’s even tighter.   Here are the numbers.   Active properties for sale versus one year ago are down: 11% in Larimer County 20% […]
Fun Facts Prices Still Up Prices Still Up It seems that COVID-19 did not cause prices to decrease and certainly didn’t cause them to crash. Average prices are up compared to last year: ·         2.8% in Larimer County ·         5.4% in Weld County ·         3.3% in Metro Denver Low supply, sustained demand, and incredibly low interest rates are all fueling the […]
Fun Facts On Sale Money is on sale (again). 30-year mortgage rates now sit at 3.3%. This is less than half of the long-term, 40-year average. This is also almost a full percentage point lower than they were one year ago (which was still very low). Let’s put this in real numbers. A $300,000 loan at today’s rates has […]
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