Colorado

Colorado Springs-area homes sold at a near-record clip last year, but an inventory shortage held the market back from being even better.

Homebuyers in metro Denver will need to put aside visions of a more bountiful banquet of properties for sale as current owners are staying in their homes.

Metro Denver home prices, after years of effervescent gains, are going as flat as that unfinished bottle of champagne.

No matter who's doing the talking, Colorado Springs' red-hot housing market is expected to continue to sizzle next year, and possibly beyond.

Pending new home sales increased both on a month-to-month and annual basis, benefitting from the current low mortgage rate environment, although they are still constrained by inventory issues, a Meyers Research report said.

Colorado Springs-area homebuyers continued to find slim pickings last month, as the supply of local properties available for purchase remained at historically low levels.

If Denver-area buyers were expecting a bounty of homes to choose from this holiday season, they are going to be sorely disappointed. Sellers are playing the grinch as 2019 draws to a close.

In another sign of the hot real estate market in the Colorado Springs area, the number of mortgage foreclosures filed in El Paso County last month fell to a near-20-year low.

Home sellers in metro Denver appear to be trying to squeeze every last drop out of a historic run-up in prices. But in doing so, they risk getting squeezed themselves.

A record-setting spring and summer for Colorado Springs home prices have given way to a record-setting autumn.

For months now, the question in metro Denver's real estate market has been where have the buyers gone. But in October, a whole bunch of sellers went missing in action as well.

The pace of Colorado Springs-area home construction picked up again last month, as rock-bottom mortgage rates and a strong local economy continued to drive the local demand for houses.

Denver beat out Salt Lake City to snag another technology firm looking to escape the Bay Area's escalating costs.

Single-family homes sold briskly last month in the Colorado Springs area, while prices rose again — good news for sellers, but an increasingly tough time for entry-level buyers trying to find an affordable house.

Colorado has five counties where more than half of the homes are vacation properties, and the state's vacation homes, those near ski resorts, are among the most expensive in the country, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Autumn's chill has come early again to metro Denver's housing market, with the pace of sales in September down sharply from August and median prices gliding gently lower.

Colorado Springs' four-month streak of record-setting home prices was snapped in August, but local buyers still are paying more for housing than last year, a new Pikes Peak Association of Realtors report shows.

Single-family home prices in Colorado Springs rose by 8.2% from the second quarter of last year to the second quarter of 2019, which ranked as the fifth highest appreciation rate among the nation's 100 largest metro areas.

Colorado Springs-area homebuyers continue to dig deeper into their pocketbooks, as a historically low supply of properties listed for sale and strong demand send prices soaring.

Colorado Springs-area homebuyers still can find an affordable house in today's red-hot, record-setting real estate market. They just have to move to Pueblo.