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Job losses driving foreclosures

Nine out of 10 people facing foreclosure in the Denver area today are facing losing their homes because they lost their jobs, not because a bad [...]

Foreclosure filings fall, foreclosure sales skyrocket

Foreclosure sale should start to fall in the spring, according to the Colorado Division of [...]

Colorado No. 10 for foreclosures

“As bad as the 2009 numbers are, they probably would have been worse if not for legislative and industry-related delays in processing delinquent loans,” James J. [...]

Foreclosure sales down

“It appears very unlikely that the number of completed foreclosures will reach the total set in 2007 and 2008,” Ryan [...]

Denver-area foreclosure filings rise, sales drop, in October

Arapahoe, Boulder, Larimer and Mesa Counties all reported sizable increases year over year, while Adams, Denver, Douglas, El Paso, and Weld Counties reported decreases in foreclosure filing [...]

Foreclosure activity peaked in July

Foreclosure filings picked up in July, and fell back by about 8.5 percent in August, shows a survey of some of the largest counties in Colorado.

The survey of 11 of the largest counties in Colorado by Ryan McMaken of the Colorado Division of Housing indicates that many counties showed the most activity for [...]

Rental housing vacancy rates rise

The overall vacancy rate in Denver-area rental homes rose in the second quarter 5.2 percent from 4.2 percent in the second quarter 2008, a 23.8 percent jump, according to a survey sponsored by the Colorado Division of Housing.

That is the highest vacancy rate since the fourth quarter of 2006, when it stood at 5.5 [...]

County by county home action

In the previous blog, I wrote that the 80246 ZIP Code, which includes Hilltop, showed a 47.2 percent appreciation during the second quarter, according to a recent report by San Diego-based DataQuick.

Here are some other interesting points of data.

Overall, the median price of a home in Denver was $186,000 in Denver in the second quarter, [...]

May-to-June foreclosures not encouraging

When crunching numbers, I’m always a bit wary of putting too much weight on consecutive month data when it comes to real estate.

That is because there can be huge seasonal reasons why home sales, for example, might pop in March from February, or fizzle in September from August, for example.

But any data can serve a [...]

Foreclosures by the numbers

There were 10,726 foreclosure filings in the first six months of the year, a 10.5 percent drop from the 11,992 in the first half of 2008.

Here is a breakdown, by county.

County       2008         2009            Percentage Change

Adams      3,352          2,963           (11.6)

Arapahoe 3,713         2,964          (20.17)

Boulder     580               643            10.86

Broomfield 152          176             15.7

Denver        3,780     3,153          (16.5)

Douglas    1,235        1,278        (3.2)

Jefferson    2,055    1,989      [...]