Are you getting ready to look for your first home? There’s more to the task than checking out bedrooms and back yards. First, you need to consider important financial issues. Here are 3 key tips, from the real estate website Keeping Current Matters: Get pre-qualified: In a competitive home market like Denver, you need to be able to act immediately if you see a house you’d like to buy. If you are already pre-qualified for a loan, sellers will...

Investing in real estate can be risky, and the uncertainty raises many questions:  Is success based on “timing the market? Is it found in getting only great deals? Or are there more pieces to the puzzle?” These are questions Forbes contributor David Greene, raises in a recent article. He may not have foolproof ways to hit it big, but after nearly a decade of investing in real estate and speaking with other investors, he clearly knows what...

Want to find the most up-to-date color for your home decor? This year, think coral. Living Coral has been designated the Color of the Year by Pantone – and the company is waxing poetic about it. “Sociable and spirited, the engaging nature of …Living Coral welcomes and encourages lighthearted activity. Symbolizing our innate need for optimism and joyful pursuits, … Living Coral embodies our desire for playful expression.” And that’s not all. The...

Whether you want to update your longtime home or reconfigure your newly purchased residence, remodeling is a seductive thought. After all, who doesn’t love to imagine that their dream home is just a contractor away? But remodeling comes with its own set of challenges. From budget woes to daily dust and disorder, a home project can seem like a virus – something you just endure until it’s over. What are the symptoms of the ailment? Houzz article...

2018 Home Sales Cool Off, While Inventory Recovers and Price Increases Moderate January 17, 2019 DENVER – December’s declining home sales and growing inventory solidified 2018 as the year the red-hot seller’s market moved toward a balanced market. Price growth also moderated, though December was the 33rd consecutive month of year-over-year increases in home prices, according to the RE/MAX National Housing Report, which includes 53 metro...