What does Colorado’s largest home manufacturing plant shutting down mean for industry?

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 12/5 1:00A Aldo Svaldi

Colorado is losing its top facility in the push to make home construction more efficient and, by extension, the costs of new homes more affordable. Clayton Homes filed a notice with the Colorado Department of Labor on Tuesday that it will shut...

Downtown Denver office tower and former site of Xcel Energy regional HQ transferred to Blackstone

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 12/4 1:00A Thomas Gounley

The downtown Denver office tower that until recently housed the regional headquarters of Xcel Energy is the latest to be given to a lender. Ownership of the 22-story building at 1800 Larimer St. transferred last week to an entity affiliated with...

Already tough, housing affordability has worsened in rural Colorado

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 12/1 1:00A Aldo Svaldi

Colorado has the highest rural median home prices and the highest required income to purchase a rural home in the country, according to an analysis from the Seattle-based brokerage Redfin . Already known for a lack of affordability, rural areas...

Golden hotel up for auction after bankruptcy filing

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 11/26 1:00A Thomas Gounley

A hotel in Golden is being auctioned off after its local owner filed for bankruptcy over the summer. Bids for the 155-room Best Western Plus Denver West/Golden hotel at 15059 W. Colfax Ave. are due Dec. 3, according to an online listing from...

Former 378-acre Camp Fire campground resurfaces for sale near Conifer

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 11/26 1:00A Aldo Svaldi

Camp Kotami, a former Camp Fire retreat, is for sale for the first time in nearly 40 years. But finding the right buyer for the 378-acre parcel in Jefferson County may take some time. The asking price is $6.5 million. It is one of the largest...

Edgewater first to table with tip credit boost to buttress suburb’s restaurant scene

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 11/26 1:00A John Aguilar

Edgewater took a big step Tuesday toward decoupling increases in the city s minimum wage from the lower wage collected by tipped workers, which would make it the first city in Colorado to take advantage of a new state law . That law allows...

Nine in 10 Denver area homes lost value in the past year, Zillow reports

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 11/18 1:00A Aldo Svaldi

Metro Denver is leading the country for the share of homes that have lost value over the past year, with 9 in 10 homes down in price compared to only half nationally, according to an analysis from Zillow . About 91% of metro Denver homes lost...

Cherry Hills mansion lists for first time in nearly 70 years for $12M

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 11/15 1:00A Sara B. Hansen

When the Taplin family purchased 11 Cherry Hills Drive in 1958, the house sat at the end of a dirt road. Even though the home, built in 1941, overlooks the 10th fairway of the Cherry Hills Country Club, Thomas and Beatrice Taplin didn’t buy it...

Southern California real estate firm surrenders Waterford RiNo apartment complex to lender

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 11/7 1:00A Thomas Gounley

A Southern California real estate firm has surrendered a large RiNo apartment complex it bought in 2021 to its lender, indicating that distress seen for years in the office sector is starting to spill over into the multifamily sector. An affiliate...

Neighbor says possible Native American burial site should stop subdivision

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 11/6 1:30A Justin Wingerter

An eleventh-hour effort to stop the creation of a small subdivision in the foothills outside Morrison hinges on tentative and uncertain findings of a Native American burial site. Two contractors, Damien Davis and Ken Hoyt, plan to subdivide 30...

Denver-based Ownli looking to reprogram home purchasing by using AI

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 11/6 1:00A Aldo Svaldi

Ownli, a Denver tech startup, is racing to get an early start in deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning to replace the tasks that real estate agents have long handled. The end game help consumers do it themselves, avoid...

Metro Denver housing market’s more leisurely pace may be here to stay

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 11/6 1:00A Aldo Svaldi

Home sales and new listings fell in October in metro Denver, an ongoing sign that slower activity may be a feature, not a phase, according to a monthly update from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors . Buyers purchased 3,354 homes and condos...

Complex property deal involving Lakewood, Jeffco Schools and a nonprofit group has landed in court

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 10/29 1:00A John Aguilar

A cash-strapped school district that s looking to unload a shuttered elementary school. A nonprofit human services agency that s in need of a bigger home as it serves more than 60,000 households a...

Checkr, Chevron decisions push downtown vacancy up again in third quarter

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 10/28 1:00A Thomas Gounley

Office vacancy in downtown Denver ticked up again in the third quarter, driven heavily by decisions at a tech firm and an oil and gas giant. At the end of September, total office vacancy in the city center was 37.7%, according to CBRE. That was...

Metro Denver home sellers losing more ground as market enters slow season

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 10/24 1:00A Aldo Svaldi

In the tug of war between sellers and buyers, metro Denver s housing market remains competitive, but sellers are definitely feeling the rope burn their hands and their feet skid as they try and fail to stay firm on price. Nearly a third of Denver...