Tag Archives: Low Interest Rates

May Preview: Denver’s Improving Real Estate Market

For several years now, Denver’s real estate market has been all clouds with few silver linings. At 5280 every May, we run our annual real estate guide, and since 2008, the vast majority of our articles have focused on the … Continue reading

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Why Housing Affordability Is at Risk

The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage dropped to 3.68 percent last week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. From 1985 through 1999, rates ranged from 6 to 13 percent. Present low rates have allowed buyers to purchase more … Continue reading

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Real estate apps can help, or overwhelm, homebuyers

Raj Aurora has been searching to buy his first home for the past three months but hasn’t wasted time looking at condos he knows he won’t like and hasn’t even needed to meet his agent, all thanks to real estate … Continue reading

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Real estate apps can help, overwhelm homebuyers

Raj Aurora has been searching to buy his first home for the last three months, but hasn’t wasted time looking at condos he knows he won’t like and hasn’t even needed to meet his agent, all thanks to real estate … Continue reading

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Bidding Wars Will Rise Along With Home Prices -

DENVER (CBS4) – Are home prices going up too fast, and should buyers and sellers be worried? 4 On Your Side Consumer Investigator Jodi Brooks found some answers because it all sounds too good on paper. In Southeast Denver homes … Continue reading

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Denver home prices just 4.5 percent below ’06 peak

Denver’s home values are only 4.5 percent below their peak levels in 2006, according to the SP/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices and accompanying analyses released this week. Low interest rates and limited inventory helped lift Denver home values 9.2 percent in … Continue reading

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Home Buyers Are Back, but Where Are the Houses?

“Some listings are vanishing from a strategic decision of waiting for an even a higher price later. Some are due to few newly built homes available to trade-up to, hence some current existing home owners are unwilling to list. Some … Continue reading

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Realtors predict big year for housing in metro area, but some disagree

Realtors and others in the industry are trumpeting a robust housing market in the Denver area and throughout Colorado in 2013, saying this year will be a continuation of the rebound the market enjoyed in 2012 — and perhaps even … Continue reading

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Credit Clips Homebuilder Confidence

After a summer of significant monthly jumps in confidence among the nation’s home builders, fall appears to be bringing in a chill. Builder sentiment edged up just one point in October, according to an industry association index, but credit issues … Continue reading

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Why Home Refinancing Boom Is Different This Time

U.S. home owners are refinancing their mortgages at the fastest clip since 2005, but the difference now is they are putting cash in, not taking it out. At the going rate, 25 percent of all first-lien U.S. mortgages will be … Continue reading

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