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The origins of the “three rules” of real estate call into question whether location should be viewed as the most important characteristic when evaluating real estate.  At the 17th Annual CU Real Estate Forum, Gunnar Branson highlighted William Safire’s research on the origins of the phrase “location, location, location.”  According to Safire’s research,…

To update our previous post, Governor Hickenlooper has reinstated five of the ten public trustees who resigned or retired last month after reports by The Denver Post revealed apparent abuses of public funds by certain trustees.  The five reappointed trustees include those in El Paso, Jefferson, Larimer, Weld and Douglas Counties.  In addition, the…

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…

As we noted in a previous post, critics of Colorado’s foreclosure process have been pursuing various avenues to reform parts of that process.  They have been particularly focused on the “qualified holder” provision of Colorado statutes, which allows the foreclosing lender to state that it is the owner of the deed of trust being…