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Buyers & Sellers $700-Plus The average price in Larimer County is well over $700,000. For all closings in April, the numbers came in at $721,000. People who have lived in Northern Colorado may have a hard time believing that. The market here has certainly seen significant growth in the last 20 years. Here is something remarkable about the April […]
Buyers & Sellers The Last Decade Did you know home values in Larimer County have more than doubled in the last ten years? Larimer County average prices are up 125% compared to 2014.  Weld County’s are up 134% Here’s where it gets interesting… Many people would guess that a significant portion of those gains occurred in the last five years. However, […]
Buyers & Sellers Staying Steady Because mortgage rates have not decreased yet this year, many are wondering what that means for Northern Colorado home sales. Transaction count is staying relatively steady compared to 2023. Total sales year to date are down slightly (6%) versus last year. At this point in 2023, there were a total of 1434 closings in Northern […]
Buyers & Sellers No Drop The numbers are in and it turns out that not even 8% rates could make prices drop in 2023. When mortgage rates jumped this last year, many people believed that home values would fall as a result. The fact that prices stayed flat in 2023 even though interest rates doubled between March 2022 and October […]
Colorado Housing Out of the Gates How is the year starting? All of us in the real estate industry are especially curious to see how 2024 is starting off after the first slow real estate year in a long time. Rates have settled down and are trending down. Prices have shown resilience and continue to go up. But, how about transactions? […]
Colorado Housing Above Water A dynamic that gives us even more confidence about the housing market is the amount of equity that homeowners have in their property. Equity is of course the difference between the value of the property and the amount that is owed against it. In Larimer County, 53% of homeowners have at least 50% equity in […]
Buyers & Sellers Forecast Takeaways Here are some of the big takeaways from our annual Market Forecast with Economist Matthew Gardner: Interest rates will continue to trend down during the year and reach 6.08% by the end of 2024. Home prices will have another year of modest gains increasing 2.0% to 2.5% in Northern Colorado 53% of homeowners in Larimer […]
Buyers Highly Active In addition to tracking the average price for sold properties, it is also interesting to track the average price for active properties. Asking prices are up across all markets when compared to the same time last year. Here are the average list prices for residential properties along the Front Range: Larimer County = $893,000 (8% […]
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Buyers & Sellers MOI is Still LOW Despite decreased buyer activity driven by normal seasonal patterns plus higher interest rates, the key stat of Months of Inventory continues to stay relatively low. Months of Inventory (MOI) is the simple measurement of how long it would take to sell the current inventory of homes for sale at the current pace of sales. Along […]
Buyers & Sellers Increasing Reductions More and more sellers are having to reduce their listing price. Nationally, 37% of all home sellers have recently had a listing price reduction. This is according to a recent report from Altos Research. This is up from 30% in May and is now at the second-highest level since 2018. The highest it has been […]
Buyers & Sellers Who Would Have Guessed? Pretend it is 2013. The real estate market is clearly recovering from the Great Recession. The Broncos are having a great year and will eventually make it to the Super Bowl. Now, imagine someone makes a prediction that 10 years in the future mortgage interest rates would double over the course of 12 months. If […]
Buyers New Opportunity One of the many opportunities for buyers today is new construction. In Northern Colorado, just under 25% of all available homes for sale are brand new homes. That percentage is roughly 50% more than normal. Buyers who are looking for a greater selection can consider new homes. New homes offer obvious advantages like trendy finishes […]
Market News High Active The average price of all active listings is likely much higher than you think. For example, the average listing price of the nearly 5000 properties for sale in Metro Denver is nearly $1,000,000. Here is the average price of all active listings along the Front Range: Larimer County: $886,000 Weld County: $736,000 Metro Denver: $939,000 […]
Buyers & Sellers A New Change There is a new type of change to be prepared for. One interesting way to track the market is to measure the year-over-year difference in inventory. Quite simply, this looks at how many homes are available today versus the same time one year ago. For the past several months in a row, the difference as […]
Buyers & Sellers March Madness When things get crazy on Wall Street, it’s often good for real estate. Uncertainty in the stock market attracts investors to the stability offered by Treasury Bonds. Higher demand for bonds means lower interest rates which is obviously good for real estate buyers. “Turbulence in the financial markets is putting significant downward pressure on rates” […]
Colorado Housing Jobs Bounce As the job market goes, so goes the housing market.  This is a fact about any primary housing market. If employment is growing, the housing market will keep growing. One of the many positive indicators of the healthy Northern Colorado economy is the fact that the jobs lost during the pandemic have bounced back. Not […]
Buyers & Sellers Rate Prediction Our Chief Economist, Matthew Gardner predicts that interest rates will hit 5.4% by the end of 2023. His prediction is aligned with most expert real estate economists. While rates will continue to bounce up and down as the year goes on, the general trend will be lower rates. This prediction is mainly based on the […]
Housing Trends No Bear Altos Research is one of the most trusted sources of real estate market information in the United States.  Each week they track every single home for sale across the Country.  They analyze the pricing, supply, demand, and status changes for all listings.  This amount of data allows them to expertly predict changes in the market. […]
Housing Trends Luxury Stats The numbers are in.  2022 was another strong year for luxury sales of properties over $1,000,000. Along the whole Front Range in 2022, the number of luxury properties that sold was up 6.28% over 2021. The sold price per square foot was up 5.98% compared last year. Most interestingly, the number of luxury properties that […]
Buyers & Sellers Versus 2019 Because 2021 and 2020 were such unique years in real estate because of the considerably low interest rates, many people in our industry believe it makes sense to compare 2022 to 2019 when looking at the key statistics. Here’s how 2022 looked along the Front Range compared to 2019:                         Prices     […]