Metro Denver housing market heats up in October, despite election jitters

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 11/5 1:00A Aldo Svaldi

Metro Denver s housing market heated up instead of cooling down last month as buyers defied expectations they would take a wait-and-see approach until the election was over. If anyone was hitting the pause button, it seemed to be sellers. Buyers...

Texas-based law firm opens office in Denver’s Cherry Creek neighborhood

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 11/2 1:00A Jessica Alvarado Gamez

Texas-based law firm Vinson & Elkins opened a Denver office in the city’s Cherry Creek neighborhood on Friday. “ Denver offers a central U.S. location with easy access to both coasts and Texas, making the city a strategic market for companies...

Denver’s affordable housing shortfall could find an answer in its empty office towers

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 10/28 1:00A Aldo Svaldi

The Pew Charitable Trusts and the architectural firm Gensler have a proposition for Denver renters struggling to find a place to live that won t bust their budgets. Would they take a studio apartment in a renovated skyscraper for $850 a month,...

“Junk fees” weigh down Colorado renters as lawyers, lawmakers plan pushback

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 10/27 1:00A Seth Klamann, Elizabeth Hernande

Franklin Ramirez felt duped. When he moved to Denver a little more than a year ago, he was told monthly rent at his two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment in the downtown Civic Lofts building cost...

Metro Denver in the middle of its biggest apartment boom since the 1970s — but rent prices aren’t...

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

Metro Denver developers pushed out more than 5,000 new apartments in the third quarter, and rents barely moved despite that high volume, according to a quarterly update from the Apartment Association of Metro Denver. For the past several quarters...

Colorado’s first Waldorf Astoria-branded property coming to Cherry Creek

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 10/23 1:00A Jessica Alvarado Gamez

The Waldorf Astoria, recognized for its upscale hotels and resorts, is lending its name to a condominium project in Cherry Creek North that is expected to open in three years. The condos will reflect...

Downtown Denver’s newest hotel evokes Colorado’s signature aspen trees, billed as “carbon positive”

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 10/18 1:00A Judith Kohler

A beautiful aspen tree has been planted on a triangular piece of land in downtown Denver, Mayor Mike Johnston said during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new Populus Hotel. The hotel opened to...

Three in a row: Another office building along DTC corridor enters foreclosure

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 10/18 1:00A Thomas Gounley

Orchard Road in Greenwood Village is turning into Foreclosure Lane. The four-story, 146,000-square-foot office building at 7800 E. Orchard Road entered foreclosure this month, following on the heels of the two structures to the west. The...

Denver housing market stays sluggish in September despite rate cut

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 10/11 6:36A Sara B. Hansen

Home buying activity remained sluggish in September despite a mid-month half-percentage point interest rate cut and more homes being available. According to the September report from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors , the months of...

Data centers are a hot real estate trend, but will Colorado miss out on big projects?

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 10/11 1:00A Judith Kohler

A hot trend in metro Denver s real estate market is data centers, with people selling sites for the facilities and people developing the centers saying demand is outpacing supply. Flexential, a Denver-based developer and operator of data centers,...

Catholic Charities looks to sell RiNo city landmark long used for child care

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 10/9 1:00A Thomas Gounley

A protected city landmark on the edge of RiNo that was used for child care for nearly a century is being marketed for sale by its nonprofit owner. Catholic Charities put its building at 1128 28th St. dubbed the Margery Reed Mayo Day Nursery — up...

Billion-dollar redevelopment to transform Cherry Creek’s west side over next few years

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 10/8 1:00A Jessica Alvarado Gamez

Now that a new billion-dollar project has governmental approval, a long-awaited face-lift of the west side of the tony Cherry Creek shopping district will move forward. Cherry Creek West is a 13-acre...

What commission changes mean for Colorado home buyers, sellers

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 10/4 6:51A Sara B. Hansen

This summer’s National Association of Realtors legal settlement could change who pays real estate commissions. Colorado realtors say this could create unnecessary confusion, cause buyers to spend less money on down payments, and lead sellers to...

Downtown office tower sells to Dikeou at 80 percent discount

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 10/4 6:20A Thomas Gounley

The Hudson’s Bay Centre office tower in downtown Denver has sold to a local buyer for nearly 80 percent less than it fetched a decade ago. Denver-based Dikeou Realty bought the 20-story building at 1600 Stout St. on Monday for $8.95 million,...

Home prices starting to fall in metro Denver, even though mortgage rates are lower

The Denver Post (Real Estate) 10/4 1:00A Aldo Svaldi

Leaves are holding tight to the trees this autumn along the Front Range, but home prices have started tumbling despite more-favorable mortgage rates for buyers, according to a monthly update from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors . The...