Written by: Rick Hausman, Supervising Broker, Benchmark Realty. The weather isn’t the only thing that warmed up early… So has Real Estate Activity. Residential Detached Market Analysis The number of homes sold (detached and attached), and the median sales price is up in March compared to March 2011. In my opinion in any market moreContinue Reading…

The numbers for February 2012 versus February 2011, although not spectacular, do suggest continued improvement in the Fort Collins real estate market.  Keeping in mind that Fort Collins was the best real estate market in Colorado for 2011, we continue to see a fairly stable market.  Contributing factors consist of a healthy rental market, highContinue Reading…

Inventory is very low, and demand has stayed the same.  There are lots of buyers in the market that are having trouble finding homes to purchase and multiple offer situations are not uncommon right now if your home is well priced and well marketed.  We’ve been seeing this trend develop all fall and if ourContinue Reading…

November 2001 Fort Collins Real Estate Market Report Here in Fort Collins we continue to see a decline in the housing inventory available to home buyers.  Especially in relation to available condos.  In November 2011 compared to last year, the number of available single-family homes was down by 18% and the number of condos wasContinue Reading…

Last month I wrote about how we are seeing a decrease in available inventory and an increase in the median price per sale in both the Fort Collins and Loveland housing markets.  Today I pulled October 2011 sales statistics for the Fort Collins area from the Colorado Association of Realtors and found that as IContinue Reading…

This is a copy of a recent article I wrote for www.examiner.com. September Northern Colorado Real Estate Market Report Too often people assume that the real estate market is the same across the country. Real estate markets are more like the weather. Not every market is the same. Even in Northern Colorado there are differencesContinue Reading…

Although recent articles about the U.S. housing market these days paint a mediocre picture of housing prices and inventory, Fort Collins continues to see a decline in its housing inventory and a rise in the median sales price. We tend to pay attention to the amount of inventory available on the market because a declineContinue Reading…

Haven’t had a lot of time to digest these numbers yet, but I’m trying to keep up with providing these sales numbers each month for readers. Here’s the summary of sales statistics for last month’s Market Report in July 2010 from the Colorado Association of Realtors.

End of the month Market Report of homes sales data for the Fort Collins region shows some modest improvement from last year’s numbers. Nothing groundbreaking here for Fort Collins, but some signs that homes are starting to sell again, and that there are buyers out there. Here’s a few key points I noticed when comparingContinue Reading…

Here’s the end of the month sales data from May, 2010 with a few interesting breakdowns for you. FHA financing was obtained on 37% of all sales this month compared to 24% for May in 2009. FHA financing is now one of the primary methods of obtaining a mortgage with less than 10% down. There’sContinue Reading…

The housing market in Fort Collins showed some significant signs of increased activity spurred on my the ending of the $8,000 tax credit. The number of units sold in Fort Collins for April 2010 increased 25% from April 2009.

 This is straight from the Northern Colorado MLS this morning: Overall sales volume for the 1st Quarter is up 12.86% when compared to the same period last year, with 322 more sales than 2009. Dollar volume is up 13.93%, an increase of $87.8 Million in sales. Residential sales are up 15.24% in dollar volume, anContinue Reading…