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The Latest Edition of THE SCOOP!
Check out the link below for interesting and helpful info on the Northern Colorado Real Estate Market!
Friday Fun Facts!
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Windermere Report Monthly Highlights
This month’s Windermere Report should be arriving in your mailbox soon (if you are not already signed up to get this from me, CLICK HERE and tell me that you would like to know how the real estate market is doing each month), and I wanted to share some quick highlights.
- 48% of homes in the Fort Collins/Loveland areas are considered “affordable” to the median wage earner
- We will see 50-80% more listings hit the market March-June (yay!)
- Those homes will sell 30-50% more quickly
- We are getting BACK TO NORMAL for homeownership rates, rising back up towards a 65% rate
If these are interesting to you, I can keep you informed each month. Just DROP ME A LINE. Have a great week!
Friday Fun Facts! 10,000 Short
Northern Colorado isn’t the only place with limited inventory.
Metro Denver is short by 10,000 listings.
The average number of homes for sale for this time of year in the Denver area, going all the way back to 1985, is 14,309.
Right now there are 4,084 residential properties on the market. This is a difference of 10,225 listings compared to the long-term average.
The peak was 2008 when there were 25,037 listings. The lowest year was last year with 3,878 (a drop of 21,159 in 9 years?!).
The good news for buyers is that inventory is up 5% compared to last year. Another piece of good news is that the Spring tends to produce the highest amount of inventory for buyers to pick from.
The Scoop! Is Here
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New Downtown Loveland Hotel
There has been A LOT of development in the Loveland and Fort Collins areas in the way of accommodations in the last few years. The Elizabeth Hotel in Fort Collins being one of the most notable. But Loveland is keeping up with its Foundry development that is a public/private partnership to bring even more life to the Downtown Loveland area.
A new hotel is being added to the mix, and it will be a 102 room Towne Place Suites by Marriott, and it will be right downtown. There will be an indoor swimming pool, meeting space, and will be pet friendly. Now people will be able to look at Downtown Loveland as a destination, with shopping, restaurants and hotels all within walking distance of each other.
If you have any questions about this hotel or the Foundry development in Loveland, give me a call!
The Gardner Report
Every quarter Windermere’s Economist Matthew Gardner puts out the Gardner Report. Check out the lates installment of this report for Northern Colorado below!
Are We Bubbly?
Because our Northern Colorado market has been so active over the last four years, clients often ask me if wIe think there is a housing bubble forming.
There are several key statistics which we track closely in order to answer that question.
Here is one fact that we find to be insightful…
One of the root causes of the last housing bubble was the glut of inventory, and specifically new home inventory. Quite simply, the market was being oversupplied with new homes. The rules of economics say when there is oversupply, prices must come down.
Today, there are far fewer new home starts compared to 2004 and 2005 when the last bubble was forming – despite there being a larger population.
According to our friends at Metrostudy who track the new home market, Northern Colorado has had 4,452 new home starts in the last 12 months.
That number is only 60% of what it was at the height of construction in early 2005.
It is also interesting to note that over the last 12 months there have been 4,473 new home closings which shows that demand is keeping up with supply.
So when you drive around Northern Colorado and notice all the new homes being built, know that construction activity is far less than what is was during the bubble and that demand is keeping up with supply.
In case you missed our annual real estate Forecast event, you can reach out to me to see the presentation slides or receive a video recap of the information. Just email me at phunter@windermere.com
