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Like everything else these days home costs are skyrocketing. Construction costs of new homes are being effected from the materials to the shipping. When considering these factors it makes sense to look around and see what we can use to build a home, using what is existing.
When someone suggested using shipping containers for […]

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The main topic at the Cherry Creek Leads Group meeting last Tuesday was presented by Cathy Barry of Mortgage Solutions. She discussed mortgage insurance and how it affects buyers in this market. Since days of 100% financing are gone, and getting a second mortgage is a slim option, most buyers in today’s market must pay […]

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The Metro Denver resale housing market was better in 2006 and 2007 than perceived and written about by local and national media.
The graphs below demonstrate the available resale housing inventory, total homes sold, and the absorption rate in the Metro Denver market for 2005, 2006, and 2007.
The absorption rate is the number of weeks it […]

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The Business Section (Wall Street West) of The Rocky Mountain News (12/29/07) printed one “news” article, on “op-ed” piece, and a rather hard to comprehend Letter to the Editor,  all devoted to the housing “crises”. The letter to the editor simply made no sense, as it was difficult to tell if the writer […]

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Maybe not in your neck of the woods, but certainly in Colorado. Erin Toll, the Director of the Division of Real Estate in these parts was the beneficiary of a full page article (with picture) in Tuesdays Rocky Mountain News applauding her announcement of an “emergency rule” prohibiting prepayment penalties extending past the adjustment […]

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