Tag: buying a home

Average home price in Colorado: Is it always going up?



May 31, 2020Some members of Colorado Buyers Agents Association are wondering about the accuracy of the statistics. Many potential homebuyers are exposed to regarding average home price trends from month to month or year to year. Home Prices in Colorado Some members of our Colorado real estate association, Colorado Buyers Agents Association, have PhDs, which tends to foster the analytic side of the brain....

It’s Electric!



May 31, 2020How can I save on energy costs? Let me count the ways! For those of you who did not hear my screams of utter shock, I recently opened my latest and greatest electric bill. I promptly got online and started researching ways of saving electricity. At least I had some control over this situation... ...and it started with taking down my Christmas lights. There are many ways to cut down on...

Top Ten Places To Buy A Home in 2011



May 29, 2020I came across an article recently on walletpop.com that gave "Top Tens." Of course they had the top 10 locations to buy a home in 2011. These are not in any particular order,  and I believe them to be somewhat biased. I will let you decide for yourself whether these are in fact the winning cities of the following categories: 1. Winner of Best City All Around: Austin, Texas The average home...

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!



May 27, 2020Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! The big, white, fluffy powder (also known as pow-pow) is a big reason ski and snowboard addicts look to move to Colorado. When a few ski areas are only an hour and a half drive from the big city of Denver, what winter sports enthusiast wouldn't want to live here? Hit the slopes on your day off! The metropolis city of Denver is the base of many top...
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Quarterly Market Report – Boulder County



May 3, 2020Summary Boulder County is seeing an overall increase in home sales over the same quarter of 2012. As is the case with many active real estate markets that have been evidencing significant increased activity. The Numbers Specifically, sales were up 13% from last March, according to Neil Kearney of Kearney Realty Company.  Kearney also reports that single family home sales were up a whopping...
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The Digital Real Estate Age



April 29, 2020Welcome to the digital real estate age.  Although computers have been around for many years, recent technology advances and enhanced. Comprehensive website information portals have forever changed the landscape of the real estate. Both in-home search procedures that buyers might use and in marketing and advertising strategies that sellers might use. Clear Advantages This is timely, as many...
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The Real Estate Inspection Process – Let Your buyer’s agent Help



April 26, 2020There are some startling trends that have occurred this year in Denver Metro. As buyers rush to view properties in a severely depleted inventory. They are trying to beat out other potential buyers for the same properties.  One disturbing trend is the waiver of inspection.  Any real estate purchase is a substantial investment and there are many reasons to be thorough in the front end in order to...