The Denver real estate market may be reaching an inflection point after years of rising home values as buyer demand adjusts to rising mortgage rates. We look into the current market trends for buyers and sellers.
Read MoreWhile May provided some bright spots for metro Denver’s home sales market — namely more new listings than April for buyers to choose from — the market still “feels off,” according to the Market Trends Report released by the Denver Metro Association of Realtors Saturday.
Read MoreNo doubt, that market has shrunk. Last month, just 450 homes — including houses, condos, duplexes and townhouses — closed in that price range. That’s down by 807 closings in May of 2022.
Read MoreDespite close to 7% mortgage rates, limited supply drove home prices higher again in May.
Last month, all properties sold in metro Denver had a median closed price of $595,000, up from $580,000 in April. May was the third month in a row to record price increases.
Read MoreHigher interest rates and for-sale prices may be a barrier, but for those ready to plunge into home ownership, the best advice is to get educated.
Read MoreBuying and selling a home in Denver is beginning to look much different in 2023 than it has over the past few years. The Mile High City was booming well before the pandemic as newcomers flocked here to be close to the mountains and enjoy the laid-back lifestyle in one of the best places to live in Colorado.
Read MoreIn the Denver metropolitan statistical area, though, even waning demand can’t alter the market much – not with the ultra-low supply the area is dealing with. In fact, despite the changes today’s higher mortgage rates have ushered in, Denver still ranks as the fourth-strongest housing market in the nation, according to the U.S. News Housing Market Index.
Read MoreProperty assessors for nine metro Denver area counties announced on Wednesday that property valuations, which help determine how much homeowners pay in property taxes, saw double-digit increases in their biannual assessment.
Read MoreIf you’re house hunting, there are plenty of homes available in Colorado — nearly 10,000 at the end of March, which is up 41.8% from a year ago.
Prices are a bit lower, too.
Read MoreAccording to the Census Bureau’s 2021 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, Denver is now the 19th biggest city in the United States, with a population of 711,463, as of 2021. Denver has witnessed dramatic growth in recent decades. From 1990 to 2021, Denver’s population increased by 52.1%, from 467,610 to 711,463. As with cities of the Pacific Northwest and West Coast in general, much of Denver’s growth over the course of the 2000s and 2010s was due to a large influx of Millennials.
Read MoreIt’s a statistic that, not long ago, homebuyers could have only dreamed of: The median price of a single-family home in the Denver area dropped by more than $90,000.
Read MoreDenver home buyers are still facing a shortage of properties to purchase.
Read MoreThe median home sales price for the Denver metro area was $536,500 in January, down 1.11% year over year.
Read MoreJanuary may have been one of the coldest and snowiest on record, but despite the chill, Denver’s housing market started to thaw out. Buyers closed on 2,041 homes and condos in January in the 11-county metro area.
Read MoreHome prices in metro Denver, the largest housing market in Colorado, are falling as rising interest rates continue to cool demand. But prices aren’t collapsing and are still high enough to shut a lot of buyers out of the market.
Read MoreThe housing market is cooling as consumers grow weary of higher mortgage rates. In December, the number of newly-listed homes sold had fallen about 37% from a year ago, according to Redfin data.
Read MoreLocal real estate experts predict that 2023 will bring more balance to the metro Denver housing market.
Read More2022 represented a major shift in Denver’s real estate market.
The Colorado housing market had already been hot for several years prior to the pandemic. Then COVID-19 hit, and throughout the next two years, the market exploded as interest rates dropped, and buyers flooded the market.
Read MoreRealtor.com®'s Market Trends Report(link is external) in November shows that the largest year-over-year median list price growth occurred in Milwaukee (+38.1%), Memphis (+26.9%) and Miami (+24.8%). Phoenix reported the highest increase in the share of homes that had prices reduced compared to last year (+28.4 percentage points), followed by Austin (+23.8 percentage points) and Denver (+21.0 percentage points).
Read MoreThe Denver housing market is one of Colorado’s most active as the state capital is home to many employers and is one of the Mountain West’s largest cities.
People also have been flocking to the Mile High City from more expensive cities in search of a cheaper cost of living and to work remotely in the Rocky Mountains.
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