Nearly half of all home buyers visit open houses during their home search. This weekend, those numbers may swell as buyers across the country take advantage of the Realtor Nationwide Open House, June 4-5. LIVE Urban Real Estate is out in force this weekend with nearly two dozen open houses all over Denver. [...]

Do you need a new toilet, clothes washer, or sprinklers? Then you are in luck. If you buy qualified models of each, then you are eligible for significant rebates from Denver Water. How big of rebates you ask? How about $100 off clothes washers, $75 off high-efficiency toilets and $100 off various sprinkler parts and add-ons? It is a great [...]

What is the racial and ethnic makeup ofthis neighborhood? As a Realtor, it is a question I get asked a lot by potential buyers as they explore different neighborhoods and parts of a town, especially if they are relocating. It is also a question that asa member of my local Board of Realtors, I am not allowed to answer. According to the [...]

Is it required to get an alarm permit for your home or business alarm system if you live in Denver? The answer is yes and if you don't have a permit and your alarm goes off, guess what, the police won't respond as your alarm wakes the neighborhood. If you think about it, it makes sense. With so many false alarms, it delays the response time [...]

How long do you have to wait after a foreclosure, short sale or bankruptcy to be able to buy a home again? It is a question I hope to never get, but unfortunately, in this day and age, it does get asked. To find out how long the process takes, I turned to an expert and consulted Tracey McVicker with SWBC Mortgage. Tracey outlined the time [...]

Rising gas prices have spurred homebuyers to look for homes that offer shorter commute times to work, according to a recent Inman News story regarding a survey of real estate professionals.

Three-quarters of respondents said the recent jump in gas prices had influenced where their clients chose to live. The main client concern was commute [...]

I keep hearing about it, so what is a walk score? The simplest answer is that a Walk Score is a number between 0 and 100 that measures the walk-ability of any address. The higher the number, the higher the chance you don't even need to own a car for everyday living. Walkable neighborhoods offer surprising benefits to the environment, our [...]

How long are these great interest rates going to stay so low? Unfortunately, not very much longer. The average mortgage rate in Denver right now is 4.75%, which is terrific. But according to Wells Fargo Securities chief economist John Silvia, interests rates will start climbing higher at the end of the June whenthe Federal Reserve will end [...]