Spring is here, or at least in Fort Collins, Colorado, where it’s 70° today on March 9, 2017. The home buying season is heating up (as well as the weather), and I’m asked daily, “will the appreciation in home prices slow down?” I wish I knew because I would advise my clients to either buy anything you can right now OR ‘take your time, no one else is looking.’ I won’t be saying that last part for a while. But if you have great credit, some down payment and you’re willing to offer a few …
Loveland
Up, Up and Away Go Home Prices in NOCO
Real estate prices keep going up in northern Colorado. In 2016, Boulder saw a peak in October of $921, 500 as a median price. For the year, it was $885,000 for single family home. Greeley had the lowest median price at $250,000 though it was up by 16%. Fort Collins is up 9% to $356,000. Loveland was up 10% to $345,000. Overall, the number of listings were down thus causing much of the uptick in prices. So, what’s a buyer to do? Well, they should buy. It doesn’t look like things are going …
Selling & Buying Homes in the Snow
Nobody wants to look at homes when its snowing and zero degrees outside. So, it’s great time to buy. And if you’re selling, make sure your home is the warm and welcoming oasis buyers are looking for. Sounds obvious, but sometimes we forget that it’s not always about price, terms and location. Sometimes it’s about making the potential home buyer feel like, well, that they’ve come home. Take a few tips from RISMedia’s Housecall column and make sure your home feels like home to someone …
Go East, Wanna-Be Home Buyer!
It was inevitable and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to predict that home prices would be lower east of I-25 than west of I-25. By almost $100,000 to be more precise. That meant that homeowners flocked to the east to purchase a home and gave rise to double digit appreciation, more than its neighbors to the west which experienced anywhere from Loveland/Berthoud (1.4% appreciation) to Fort Collins (6.4%) and Longmont, a bit of an outlier at 11% appreciation. Some prognosticators said that …
Are You in Your Dream Home?
Ask yourself—Am I Living in my Dream Home? Possible answers: No, I just bought my first home and will eventually be in a position to buy my dream home. Yes, with a few changes it can be my dream home. I can’t even afford rent in this town. Well, no, but I can’t find my dream home so I’ve given up. Regardless of your answer, ask yourself the next series of questions and then answer that first question again—Am I Living in My Dream Home? Do you want more space, outside and …
Hello, (almost) Fall!
I love fall. The heat of August dissipates, it's my birthday, I get to wear my sweatshirt with dogs on it, and I don’t feel guilty about letting my lawn go brown when most of my neighbors diligently water during the stifling sunny days of summer. Their lawns will also soon go brown; I’m just ahead of the curve. Ok, technically, it’s not fall but when my shrub in the back turns red, it’s fall. But what I most love is that the best houses come on the market! There are less buyers, cool …
