by Jon Terry | Nov 3, 2014 | Blog, Residential Real Estate, The Economy
A new, five-year affordable-housing plan for Denver was unveiled, providing a guide for housing programs and policies through 2019. The plan, called Housing Denver, will seek to work with nonprofits and private sector developers, as well as the financial community, to...
by Jon Terry | Oct 22, 2014 | Blog, The Economy
Colorado lost 700 jobs in August, however, state unemployment still fell two-tenths of a point, to 5.1 percent – its lowest level in six years. August was a paradoxical month in which two different government employment surveys (one of employers and the other of...
by Jon Terry | Sep 18, 2014 | Blog, The Economy
Denver is poised to reap the benefits that comes with being the biggest city in a 600-mile radius as energy companies pour billions of dollars of investment into the oil and gas fields of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Why Denver? There...
by Jon Terry | Jul 24, 2014 | Blog, Colorado Living, Housing Analysis, The Economy
The demand for new apartments, job growth, RTD’s FasTracks transit project, and climbing rent are all factors in the continuing of Denver’s apartment construction boom. Denver’s market was among the country’s top markets for completion of new...
by Jon Terry | Jun 24, 2014 | Blog, The Economy
With Colorado’s economy continuing to show sustained economic momentum, the price of homes continues to rise and the average days on the market continues to fall. As it stands, the Colorado economy is outperforming the most of the rest of the nation. We have...
by Jon Terry | Jun 12, 2014 | Blog, Foreclosure, The Economy
The April foreclosure data for Colorado’s 12 metropolitan counties is now available. Foreclosure filings and foreclosure auction sales were near an eight-year low during April 2014, with foreclosure filings dropping 29 percent, year over year, from April 2013 to...