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Not all underwater homes drowning

“More than half of these homes are underwater by a small margin, meaning that for various reasons those homes are unlikely to trigger an epidemic of defaults” Carl [...]

WSJ: Zombie homeowners

“The ruthless and the reckless have already walked,” Arends writes. “Meanwhile, the middle class continues to pay through the [...]

Boulder going to the dogs, in a good way

Kris Hudson, a former crackerjack business reporter at the Rocky Mountain News and a reporter at the Denver Post, wrote a recent travel piece on where to stay in Boulder for his current employer, the Wall Street Journal.

Praying for falling home prices?

“I know of no other “asset” that has to be fed every month,” other than a home, George [...]

WSJ: Billionaire wants land swap

Billionaire William Koch, founder and president of the Oxbow Group, an energy company, wants to swap land with the federal government in order to take control of a road that cuts into his 4,500-acre ranch in western Colorado, according to an article in today’s Wall Street Journal, Land Swap Triggers Colorado Dustup.

WSJ: Hard to finance odd homes in Colorado

“People like us that want to build these types of homes – we’re basically at the mercy of the mortgage companies,” Wayne [...]

WSJ: Boulder finds it's not easy going green

An article about Boulder’s struggle to go green  was on the front page of today’s Wall Street Journal. This is what Roger Pilke Jr., who studies political response to climate change at the University of Colorado at Boulder had to say about the city’s efforts to go green: “If a place like Boulder that regards [...]

WSJ: $47 million asking price for Snowmass mansion

“I just want to downsize,” Karen Davidson, why she is selling her Snowmass Village home, priced at $47 million, as quoted in the Wall Street [...]

WSJ: Homeowners who can afford mortgages, increasingly walking away

Borrowers who can pay and weren’t deceived by lenders, have a moral responsibility to pay their mortgages, George Brenkert, a Georgetown professor of business ethics told the Wall Street [...]

NREL wants to raise the environmental bar with its new green office

“Energy drives the design,” Rich von Luhrte, president of RNL, quoted in the Wall Street [...]