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Low-priced neighborhoods show biggest percentage price gains

“If something is priced below $200,000, it goes in a heart-beat,” Marilyn Van [...]

Boulder boasts most expensive homes in area

The most expensive homes that sold in closed in the third quarter were in Boulder.

Indeed, three of the five most expensive ZIP Codes are those that serve Boulder.

Overall, the median home prices in Boulder County – which also includes Broomfield, Erie, Lafayett, Longmont, Louisville, Lyons and Nederland – were down only 1.4 percent from a [...]

Conifer boasts 44 percent increase in home sales

Conifer is the “sweet spot” for home prices in the foothills, boosting home sales volume by 44 [...]

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, [...]

Hilltop: Prices hopping

Hilltop was the place to sell a home in the second quarter.

The 80246 ZIP Code in Denver saw a whopping 47.2 percent increase in the median sold price, according to a recent report by San Diego-based DataQuick. DataQuick is a real estate information service company that tracks and analyzes home sales, based on public records, [...]

FHA loans almost 50 percent of loans in Denvery

Government-insured FHA loans accounted for 47.5 percent the financing for all of the homes closed in the Denver area in June, reports  San Diego-based DataQuick.

To get a perspective on this, I turned to Peter Lansing, president of Universal Lending, and a sponsor of InsideRealEstateNews.com.

Universal Lending probably does more FHA-insured loans than any other lender in [...]

Bauer: This is Year One of Real Estate

Earlier today, I posted a blog that DataQuick of San Diego reports that June home sales in the Denver area hit at an 11-year low and 10.5 percent below June 2008.

Independent broker Gary Bauer doesn’t necessarily disagree with those statistics, but he isn’t troubled by them, either.

Because this has been such an extraordinary year as [...]

June home sales vs June 2008

In my previous post I reported that San Diego-based DataQuick shows that June home sales were at a record low. DataQuick, gleans its information on new and used homes that have closed from public records in Denver and across the country. By contrast, Metrolist, which will soon be releasing its July numbers, tracks homes [...]

Home sales hit 11-year low

Home sales in the Denver-area in June fell to an 11-year low,  a California-based real estate information service firm reported today.

But San Diego-based DataQuick, which uses public records, and not Metrolist data, found that while home sales were down 10.5 percent from June 2008, they jumped 31.5 percent from May.

A total of 4,562 new and [...]