Market News

2019 Year End Round-Up

Central Denver’s 2019 home prices end with a “bleh”. For the first time since 2011, the rolling twelve-month median price dropped (mid-year), and by the end of December we ended up pretty much where we started the first month of the year. What does 2020 hold? The best future performance indicator for the market is the […]

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Shining A Light on the Shadow Market

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is enforcing a significant new requirement this coming year. Starting May 1st, Realtors must list their client’s property in the MLS within one business day after installing a “coming soon” sign in the yard, emailing prospects or other realtors about the listing, or publishing the listing on a private […]

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Do Summer Vacations Cause Market Volatility?

Each year during the fall the average days on market increases and the list price to sales price ratio decreases for homes in central Denver, but why? The phenomenon begins in the spring when buyer and seller activity are mismatched — most likely as a result of summer vacations. You see, buyers start looking for homes […]

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Eight Years of Consistent Gains Come To An End

Yes, you read that correctly. For the first time since 2011, central Denver (map) home prices are dropping. We looked at the rolling 12-month median price to eliminate seasonality, and as you can see below, starting July of this year, the market has reversed course. The 12 months preceding July represent the historic height of central Denver’s […]

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It’s A Great Time To Buy

It’s less expensive to purchase a Central Denver home today than it was a year ago – thanks to falling interest rates and slowing appreciation. The median price of a home last year was $640,000 and interest rates averaged 4.56% for a 30-year fixed mortgage. This year homes have appreciated to a median price of […]

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Strong 2018 With Slowing 4th Quarter

By most accounts 2018 was a terrific year for central Denver home sellers (click for map), as prices appreciated 8.7% from the previous year to a record median price of $640,000. Low inventory was the main economic force that continued driving up prices. Sellers listed 4,553 homes on the market in 2017 and only 4,418 […]

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A Look At The Top 10% of Denver Home Sales

Most news reports define the luxury real estate market as homes over $1 million, which seems rather arbitrary to us. Homes over $1 million in Central Denver, Cherry Hills Village, and Greenwood Village during the past 12 months account for 20% of all sales. Instead of assigning an arbitrary fixed number, we looked at the […]

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