Littleton Real Estate Trends

Investing in Real Estate 9 – Scrapes, Pops and New Construction This blog will discuss a type of real estate investment, scrapes, pops and new construction, in the Roxborough area in Denver. What this investment is: Purchasing a small home in an expensive neighborhood that may or may not need wor...

Investing in Real Estate 8 – Condo Conversions This blog will discuss a type of real estate investment, fix and flips, in the Roxborough area in Denver. What this investment is: A synthesis of the fix and flip and rental operations - purchasing an apartment building in a neighborhood dominated by...

Investing in Real Estate 7 – Fix and Flips This blog will discuss a type of real estate investment, fix and flips, in the Roxborough area. What this investment is: Purchasing a home that needs work. The scope can range from the basic "paint and carpet" to extensive overhauls to scraping a decrepi...

Investing in Real Estate 6 – Lease Options This blog will discuss a type of real estate investment, lease options, in theRoxborough area. What this investment is: A lease option (L/O) is Acquiring control of a property (though not necessarily ownership), then leasing the property to a tenant. The...

Investing in Real Estate 5 – Large (5+ unit) Apartment Building This blog will discuss a type of real estate investment, large apartment buildings, in the Roxborough area in Denver. What this investment is: Still targeting tenants for 6-12 months at a time, buildings with more than five units are...

Investing in Real Estate 4 – Small (2-4 units) Apartment Building This blog will discuss a type of real estate investment, small apartment buildings, in the Roxborough area.   What this investment is: Purchase of duplex, triplex or quadplex to be rented to tenants, usually for 6-12 month terms. U...

Investing in Real Estate 3 – Rental Condo or Rental Home This blog will discuss a type of real estate investment, rental condos or rental homes, in the Roxborough area in Denver. What this investment is: Purchase of a residential property to be rented out to tenants, usually on a 6-12 month lease...

Investing in Real Estate 2 – Assignments This blog will discuss a type of real estate investment, assignments, in the Roxborough area. What this investment is: An investor who is interested in Assignments gets a property under contract for an attractive price then assigns the contract to another ...

Note these positive market trends this year: - number of active listings steadily declining - average list price pretty stable (finally!) - U/C up dramatically - Number of sales / month up (partially seasonality) - DOM dropping - Stability in average sold prices and sold price as % of list - Sold...

Colorado Mortgage Broker Licensing In response to the troubled national real estate market and Colorado’s high volume of home foreclosures, efforts have increased to make higher caliber professionals involved in real estate. Licensing, rules and regulations have become more stringent for agents, ...