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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…
On March 13, the Colorado Real Estate Journal hosted its annual Multifamily Owners and Managers Conference and Expo. The Conference assessed the present and future of Colorado’s multifamily housing market with an emphasis on the Denver metro area. Speakers included economists, consultants, property managers, lenders, investors, and developers. They canvassed topics ranging from the…
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…