Archives for February 2013

Replace Scrubbing Bubbles with the Power of the Grapefruit Materials 1 Grapefruit 1/4 cup kosher salt 1. Cut: One medium to large grapefruit will clean your entire bath or shower from top to bottom, including all of the fixtures. Simply cut it in half with a knife and you will be all set. 2. Sprinkle: […]

Job growth in metro Denver coupled with a historic low number of resale residential homes on the market are fueling a significant increase in the number of new homes. Job growth: A look at Denver’s employment estimates showed 40,200 jobs were added to the metro Denver market in just the last 12 months. Number of […]

What John Hickenlooper had to say at the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: From mining to oil exploration to leading a green energy revolution, Colorado presents a model for the nation. Our approach is balanced. We are encouraging efforts to make coal a cleaner source of energy, but while that research continues, we […]

January numbers support what the real estate professionals have been predicting regarding the 2013 housing market. Take a look at these encouraging statistics. Prices are back up to pre-recession levels. The number of homes available for sale in metro Denver dropped to the lowest level for a January we’ve seen in 23 years. The time […]

1. Rising Home Prices: The slow pace of new-home construction is continuing to push prices up. 2. Rising rents as more young people enter the market: Young people, who have been riding out the shaky economy by living with their parents or friends, are moving into their own apartments as they start to get jobs. […]

The luxury home market in the Denver area took off with a brisk start in 2013 with 12 percent more sales of homes costing more than $1 million in January. 1. The average sales price for those homes increased slightly year-over-year, from $1.43 million in 2012 to $1.46 million. 2. The average days on the […]

In November, Denver was named the first “Solar Friendly Community” in the nation. Currently, solar-power systems generate nearly 300 megawatts of electricity in Colorado. However, Colorado’s solar-power industry is readying a “Million Solar Roofs” campaign to raise the amount of solar power generated in the state to 3,000 megawatts. This is ten times the amount […]