Category Archive: Boulder County Housing Trends

2012 Real Estate Predictions from the Pro’s

Real estate predictions for 2012

This infographic was created by the good people at ActiveRain which is an online social space for Realtors.  It is the result of a survey of real estate agents from around the country.  The consensus for 2012 are that; the number of transactions will increase, real estate values will be flat, home starts (new construction) …

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“Scotty we’ve got a serious shortage of listings”

Neil Kearney

The Boulder County real estate market is humming along.  But it seems we are running a bit lean in one cylinder.  It takes both buyers and sellers to make a market and right now buyers are out in force but sellers are still in winter hibernation mode. If you are thinking about selling your home …

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Boulder County Has The Lowest Loan Delinquency Rate in Nation

90 Day Delinquency Rate Rankings

Loan delinquency rate is a canary in the mine shaft, a harbinger of things to come. And in Boulder it is good news! Loan delinquency is the first step toward foreclosure. In a recent ranking of the lowest delinquency rates released by CoreLogic, Boulder ranked number one.  The list below shows the ten markets nationwide …

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Boulder Real Estate Update for January 2012

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2012 has started in many ways just like it has over the past two years.  This year it seems that there is a lot of early activity in the market.  In fact, at the end of January, 21.5% of all listings were under contract.  This represents a 7% increase from the same time period a …

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Boulder County Luxury Home Market Update

Boulder County Luxury Homes

I define the luxury market in Boulder County to be homes over $1 million.  Luxury homes make up approximately 3.5% of the total market in Boulder County (based on 2011 sales). The number of sales of all homes in Boulder County was down 2.6% during 2011 while the sales of properties over $1,000,000 was up …

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Why You Should Invest in Colorado Real Estate

Boulder Colorado Median Price

Word is getting out through the media on why Colorado is a great place to buy real estate right now. People want to live here!! We have not had a real estate bust. (See the graph below) Low foreclosure rate.  We don’t need to wade through tons of short sales and REO sales in order …

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Boulder County Real Estate Statistics – 2011 Year in Review

Neil Kearney

I just finished my annual analysis of the real estate market in Boulder County.  In addition to the overall sales trends, I look at the real estate market in Boulder, Louisville, Lafayette, Longmont, Erie, Superior, Suburban Plains and Suburban Mountains.  The annotated slide show gives all of the detail for each of these areas. Here …

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Boulder County Real Estate Statistics – December 2011

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The year ended more slowly than I thought it would.  December sales for all types of real estate were down 9% for the month.  This pulled the year end total 4% behind 2010. Sales of single family homes were down 13% for the month.  Looking back, the only other December in recent history that had …

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Home Appreciation in Boulder County

Home appreciation in Boulder Colorado

Over the past five years homes in Boulder County have appreciated 1.2%.  This may not seem impressive but we are in the quarter of all metropolitan areas in the United States for real estate appreciation over the past five years.  There are only 70 other communities that beat the Boulder area in terms of home …

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Which Town in Boulder County Has The Strongest Real Estate Market?

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Yesterday, I shared with you how different price ranges are currently selling in the Boulder County home market.  Today we are going to look at the same indicators but today, we will use the data to find out which town has the strongest real estate market. Under Contract Percentage: This is simply the number of …

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