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Rental home vacancies rise in Denver area

“In the metro area overall, it is the case that it is difficult to raise rents much in the current economic climate,” Gordon Von [...]

Home rental vacancies likely to rise in third quarter

In an earlier blog I wrote that a new Colorado Division of Housing report showed that rental home vacancies in the second quarter rose to 5.2 percent, a percentage point higher than a year earlier. It was the highest vacancy rate since the fourth quarter of 2006, when the home vacancy rate was 5.5 percent.

Typically, [...]

Renters taking advantage of $8,000 tax credit

Increasingly, people who have been renting homes in the Denver area are leaving to buy homes to and take advantage of the $8,000 tax-credit available to qualified first home buyers this year,  experts told InsideRealEstateNews.com.