Buying a "New" Home in Colorado

For the majority of Colorado home buyers, when you declare you are buying a new home what you are really referring to is the purchase of a resale home that’s new to you.  While many of us may dream of building our perfect place from the ground up, the closest we truly get to that reality is perhaps remodeling an existing home to create that custom living space that is our target goal.

House Hunting This Fall? 5 Questions You Need To Ask On Tours

So you are buying a home this fall. A smart move! As the market cools down, home hunters tend to have more buying power. But as you tour homes in search of “the one,” there are a few questions you need to remember to ask (courtesy of Realtor.com):

Annual Fall Maintenance Schedule for Home Owners

Every season of the year yields unique events, activities and a special list worth untold dollars that we like to call “The annual fall maintenance schedule for home owners!”

We start off with one important question you need to ask:

September 2016 Market Insights

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill

Depending on the perspective from which you are viewing the market, you could find reason to be pessimistic.  However, taken as a whole, the picture that’s been painted over the last 8 months is by and large a positive one.

August 2016 Market Insights

Just about every real estate agent has a story about the buyer who was very particular about what they wanted in their new home, then bought almost the exact opposite in the end!

When you walk into the perfect home, you just know it, even if it doesn’t get any check marks on the “must have” worksheet.  That’s just one of the quirky truths in the real estate business that has no logical explanation. It simply is what it is.

July 2016 Market Insight

Each generation has had their own great impact on the real estate market as each comes of home buying age. 

Millennials are no different, they just haven’t been as decipherable as they follow a new path of progression to adulthood. Anticipating their housing preferences has been a tough call for the experts, mainly because the forces driving millennials decisions are very different from those that drove the generations before them. 

Hidden Costs of Selling & Buying a Home

Selling your home and purchasing a new one are two of the most exciting things you can do in your lifetime.  With that being said, for many people who are considering selling and buying a home at the same time, it is easy to get swept away by the romantic vision of what their “new” life will be like without completely factoring in what exactly their big move will cost.