I had a showing in Parker last week where my buyer client asked if we should come in low, since the house had already been sitting for three weeks. I told her the truth: at three weeks, that home wasn't sitting. It was actually moving close to the current pace for a detached home around here. She was surprised. A lot of people are, right now, because everyone's heard that homes are taking longer to sell...
For three weeks straight, mortgage rates drifted lower. This week, that streak ended. It wasn't a spike, just a one basis point tick up, but it landed right before the Fed's next meeting on September 16, and three of the people who vote on that decision already wanted to raise rates back in July. That combination is worth understanding before you decide whether to lock a rate this week or wait. This...
I've had three separate showings this week where the buyer's first question wasn't about the kitchen or the primary bedroom. It was "what's happening with rates?" That's a good question to be asking right now, because the answer actually moved in a helpful direction this week, and it's landing in a market that already has more room to negotiate than it has in years. This builds on what I covered in my...
Denver Metro just posted its highest active listings count in years. If you only read that headline, you'd think this is finally a buyer's market across the board. It isn't, and the county right around Parker is a good example of why. I've been watching the gap between the metro-wide numbers and what's actually happening in Douglas County this month, and it's wide enough that it changes the advice I'd...
The average asking rent across metro Denver is $1,758 a month. That is the same figure this market posted in the first quarter of 2022, dollar for dollar, four years ago. Rents here have been falling for two years straight, and most of the renters I talk to have not really registered what that means for their own decision yet. What Actually Happened to Denver Rents The short version is that a lot of...
I've had three separate conversations this week with clients who used almost the same phrase: "the market feels different than it did in June." They're not wrong. Denver's numbers for July just came out, and for the first time since early spring, prices across the board actually dipped instead of climbed. According to the Denver Metro Association of Realtors' latest Market Trends Report, the median price...
A stat crossed my desk this week that stopped me mid-scroll. In May 2021, the average home listed in Denver Metro was getting 14.2 showings a month. This May, that number was 4.7. That's not a typo, and it's not one bad month. It's a nearly two-thirds decline over five years, according to InfoSparks data cited in the Denver Metro Association of Realtors' June 2026 Market Trends Report. If you've listed a...
Denver's housing market has spent most of this year being described the same way: balanced, cooling, buyers finally getting some breathing room after a stretch of sellers calling the shots. That description is accurate for most of the market. It is not what's happening at the top of it. Through the first half of 2026, luxury homes accounted for 2,973 sales across the Denver metro area, or just over 14...
A client called me last week convinced the Denver market must be swinging back toward sellers. Her reasoning made sense on paper: active listings across the metro are down almost 19% from last year, and less inventory is supposed to mean sellers hold the cards. Then she checked how long her neighbor's house had been sitting, six weeks and still unsold, and the theory fell apart. That contradiction is...
The 30-year mortgage rate just touched 6.55%, the highest it's been all year. If that number alone makes you want to put your plans on hold, I'd slow down before you decide anything. The rate move is real, but it's not actually the most interesting thing happening in the Colorado market this month. The Rate Move, and Why It's Smaller Than the Headline According to Freddie Mac's weekly survey, the 30-year...
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