Category Archive: Boulder County Housing Trends

Boulder County Luxury Home Market Report

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The number of sales in the Boulder County luxury market ($1,000,000 and greater) showed an increase during 2010.  The luxury market has more to do with stock portfolio values than employment rates and after a year of recovery the equity markets showed enough strength to increase buyer confidence. The luxury market in Boulder County is …

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What Happens to The Listings That Don’t Sell?

Neil Kearney Entry

On a consistent basis the number of homes that are added to the MLS as new listings far outnumbers the number of sales.  In fact, so far this year there have been 7,199 new residential listings added to the IRES MLS system in Boulder County.  During that same time 3,453 properties have sold. So what …

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Boulder Real Estate Statistics – November 2010

For the latest details on the Boulder area real estate market please view the attached presentation.  As expected the market has slowed a bit due to the Holiday season.  Despite the uncertainties associated with the economy there are still some great things happening in the Boulder real estate market.  Did you know that there have …

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Boulder Home Appreciation In Top 20% Nationally

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According to a recent study released by Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA.gov), Boulder County’s appreciation for the four quarters ending September 30, 2010 ranked 53rd best out of the largest 301 metropolitan areas.  Boulders yearly appreciation for the year came in at .55%.  For the most recent quarter (July 1 – Sept. 30) the home …

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Fall Real Estate Market Stays Active

Here we are two days before Thanksgiving, a storm is expected to bring heavy snow to the high country and before you know it the holiday season will be in full force.  Usually this means that the real estate market goes into hibernation, waiting for spring.  But this year has been a bit different than …

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The Economics of List Price vs. Property Condition

The Economics of List Price vs. Property Condition

In today’s slower real estate market a seller has two choices be compelling to the market and have a chance to sell or be just another listing and face the real possibility of staying on the market for a very long time. What I’d like to talk about today is being competitive in the market.  …

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October 2010 Boulder County Real Estate Statistics

  Boulder County Real Estate Statistics October 2010http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=october2010statistics-101110104848-phpapp02&stripped_title=boulder-county-real-estate-statistics-october-2010&userName=NeilKearney  View more presentations from NeilKearney. Sales in Boulder County continued the post tax credit trend.  We have been recording between 250 and 290 sales each month in Boulder County and this month we posted 249 closed transactions.  This represents a 20% drop from October 2009 and an …

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The Simple View of the Foreclosure Crisis

The Simple View of the Foreclosure Crisis

Foreclosures have been in the news for a number of years.  It goes in cycles.  I bought my first condo in 1992, it was a HUD foreclosure. The combination of loans with adjusting interest rates, too easy credit a few years back, overly optimistic buyers, falling values and a deep recession have brought us foreclosures in waves …

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Where Are All Of The Listings Going?

Where Are All Of The Listings Going?

The math is pretty easy.  At the end of July there were 2,399 active listings in Boulder County (single family homes listed in IRES MLS).  Since then there have been 591 properties that have closed and 850 new listings to the market.  Let’s see… 2,399 + 850 – 591 = 2,658. According to my quick …

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Boulder Market Activity Unchanged (and why that’s a good thing)

Boulder Market Activity Unchanged (and why that's a good thing)

The chart above shows the activity of the Boulder County real estate market this year on a weekly basis.  The blue line represents the number of properties which went under contract during any given week and the red line shows the number of properties that closed during a week.  I have highlighted two sections of the chart.  First, the …

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