Metro Denver apartment rent increases slowest since 2011

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 7/19 6:00A Aldo Svaldi

Apartment rent increases in metro Denver may have finally slowed enough to avoid eroding household buying power, according to the latest Denver Metro Apartment Vacancy and Rent survey from the...

Only 1 in 20 houses in Denver is affordable for teachers, study finds

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 7/19 2:00A Meg Wingerter

When Rebecka Hendricks taught in Louisville, Ky., she could afford a three-bedroom house. When she moved to Denver, she barely managed to rent an apartment. Hendricks said she earned roughly the same...

Trying to sell a home in Denver? Ditch the carpet, shag or otherwise.

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 7/16 2:00A Aldo Svaldi

One piece of advice for home sellers looking to get the highest price possible — rip out that old carpet. Opendoor provides sellers an instant offer on their homes , and then turns around and sells them. Since this fall, it has studied hundreds...

Neguse bill would ban drilling under Rocky Flats and other Superfund sites

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 7/12 11:46A John Aguilar

Following the furor late last year over a proposal to drill for oil and gas beneath the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant northwest of Denver, U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse introduced legislation Friday to ban mineral extraction underneath the nation...

Office space remains a relative bargain in Denver

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 7/12 7:30A Aldo Svaldi

A shot of Republic Plaza in Denver, a city where office space costs less than it does in many other large cities. Home prices in metro Denver may have skyrocketed this decade, but Denver office space...

Bidding wars turning quiet in metro Denver housing market

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 7/11 2:00A Aldo Svaldi

The days when a home in metro Denver would list on the market and set off a feeding frenzy that brought in multiple offers are fading. While lower-priced properties in good shape can still garner stronger interest, a declining share of homes...

RiNo Art District leaving $8,200 space that was campaign issue for Giellis

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 7/10 2:42P Andrew Kenney

The River North Art District is leaving Zeppelin Station for cheaper digs, according to the district s president. The district which collects property taxes to provide services and infrastructure has had its headquarters in the new Zeppelin...

Global luxury home brokerage plants flag in Denver

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 7/10 2:00A Aldo Svaldi

Engel & Völkers, a luxury real estate brokerage based in Germany, has established a franchise in Denver under the direction of local real estate veteran Jim Cavoto. Cavoto has taken his firm, Ion Real...

More than a third of Denver-metro area rents, yet a stigma still attached to not owning a home

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 7/9 7:15A Aldo Svaldi

A growing number of people rent, including more high-income households . And the new luxury apartments going up in Denver and other cities are loaded with high-end finishes, amenities and easy access to activities that most homeowners can only...

Denver communities putting more faith in land trusts amid affordable housing crisis

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 7/8 2:00A Joe Rubino

As a nationwide affordable housing crisis continues to inflict pain on renters and would-be homebuyers across the Centennial State, a tool that gets little public attention has emerged as a key means...

Developers on Lakewood’s anti-growth vote: “Uncertainty is never a businessperson’s friend”

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 7/4 2:00A John Aguilar

Now that residents of Lakewood have passed a strict growth-control measure limiting how many new houses and apartments can be built each year, will this city of 155,000 become the place in the metro area that developers avoid? Reid Davis, a...

Believe it or not, there are still apartments in Denver for under $1,000 a month. Find out where.

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 7/4 2:00A Aldo Svaldi

At the start of the decade, apartments renting for under $1,000 a month were easy to find in metro Denver . Last month, only one neighborhood in the city still had decent availability in that price range, according to a price survey from Rent.com...

Metro Denver’s supply of homes for sale surged in June

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 7/3 2:00A Aldo Svaldi

Like the delayed runoff now surging through creeks and rivers along the Front Range, listings continued to flow into metro Denver s housing market last month, according to a monthly update from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors. Despite...

Lakewood measure to limit growth leading 53-47 in first returns

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 7/2 3:09P John Aguilar

LAKEWOOD In early returns Tuesday, voters in Colorado s fifth-largest city were supporting a cap on residential construction that would be among the strictest in the metro area. Almost 53 percent of votes, or 17,662, were in favor of it, vs. 47...

Take a look inside the Coloradan, a rare downtown condo building among Denver’s sea of apartments

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 7/2 2:00A Joe Rubino

When a 19-story, purple-blue building goes up on an entire city block next door to the city s main transit hub, it s bound to turn heads. When that big, purple-blue building gives people the opportunity to own a condo in downtown Denver, it can...