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The Denver real estate market has experienced steady growth in the last couple of years, but will it continue into the new year?
It appears so, according to an emerging trends report released by Urban Land Institute and PwC. The report ranked Denver in the top five real estate markets in the United States based…
Senator Ulibarri’s Homeownership Opportunity Act (SB 14-220) was finally introduced Wednesday evening. This much anticipated bill represents a moderate compromise with bipartisan support to address construction defect litigation in condominium projects. As has been widely reported in the media, there are very few condominiums being constructed in Colorado, an issue that has the…
You may not know it, but, as the Denver Post detailed in a recent article, the “Silver Tsunami” has reached the United States, including Colorado. While the impact thus far has been gentle, when its full magnitude arrives, “[e]verything will be impacted,” including real estate.
The “Silver Tsunami” is the moniker demographic…
This weekend, the Denver Post included a story regarding certain legal issues related to the rebuilding of the Colorado Springs homes destroyed by wildfires, many of which were located in covenant controlled communities. As noted in the article, many of those communities have architectural review committees, but given the amount of destruction it is not…
The Colorado legislature recently adopted a bill amending the Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act (CCIOA). House Bill 12-1237, which currently awaits Governor Hickenlooper’s signature, overhauls the record keeping requirements imposed upon Colorado’s property owners’ associations under CCIOA. Generally speaking, the requirements of this bill are more detailed than CCIOA’s old provisions on record keeping…