This spring's Denver area housing market has seen a buyer shortage become the new listing shortage. (You know what they say: one day you're in and the next day you're spending much longer in the MLS). Sales slumped as of May, an indicator of affordability challenges in Colorado (and across the country) while pent-up demand is beginning to [...]

The May 2024 Denver real estate market trends are in. And spring is really starting to pop. The boost in housing market activity we expected last month might have just been on a bit of a delay. (Hopeful) homeowners are sick of the waiting game and the Fed finally fessed up about its rate [...]

Last month, the Denver real estate market began its seasonal spring into action, despite Colorado's shifting economic landscape. April 2024 real estate trends reveal the lingering effects of Covid-era mortgage loan interest rates, the profound impact of inflationary pressures, and an expected seasonal upswing for April albeit a tamer early [...]

We're a quarter of the way into the year, and barely even a quarter of a percent down in interest rates. The dawn of 2024 brought optimism for lower rates and a revived housing market. But now that the sun's up and spring is in sight, it's becoming clear that rates might largely stay put at least for a [...]

The homebuyer and seller stalemate held strong for most of 2023 with experts largely predicting that early 2024 would bring a drop in mortgage loan interest rates. This rate reduction, they hypothesized, would motivate buyers to step into the ring with a subsequent easing of seller concerns about letting go of their current home loan. No one [...]

2023 went out the same way it came in with home prices stabilizing and listings spending more days on the market. These trends point to more future balance in the buyer and seller power dynamic and hint at excitement on the horizon for a more forgiving real estate [...]

Over the last few years, (un)affordability has created pent-up demand across the entire country. Like last-minute shoppers clamoring at the window of the only toy store in town on the morning of Christmas Eve, hopeful [...]

After more than a year of consistent mortgage rate hikes, interest rates dropped by 0.25% in the second week of November. Along with the rate adjustment came an uptick in mortgage applications and maybe some light at the end of the home (un)affordability tunnel.

But wait, there's more to the story. The Denver Metro Association of Realtors released its November real estate market trends report, which captures data from October home sales and purchases in the [...]