Single-Family Home

The 12 Facts of Real Estate

by Brandon Bidwell

Here are 12 facts about Colorado real estate as we head into 2020:

1 is the ranking Colorado owns for long-term home price appreciation versus all other states
2.6% unemployment rate in Colorado right now
3.73% mortgage rate for a 30-year mortgage which is about half of the long term average
4.7% apartment vacancy rate in Metro Denver, the lowest since 2015
5.5% is the long-term average for yearly home price appreciation along the Front Range
6,000,000 live in Colorado
7,000 residential properties are for sale in Metro Denver right now and the average for this time of year is 14,700
80,000 is the number of people that is added to our state’s population each year
9 homes are for sale in Larimer and Weld County priced over $2,500,000
-10% is the decrease in new home construction in Larimer County compared to last year while Weld County grew by 17%
11 times in the last 40 years home prices have gone up at least 8% along the Front Range
$1,202,488 is the average price for a single-family home in the City of Boulder

How Much?

by Brandon Bidwell

So how much real estate is sold in Northern Colorado?

As it turns out, a lot!

Last month alone there were 1,099 single family homes that sold in Larimer and Weld Counties

The average price was $429,144 which means the total sales volume for one month was $471,629,129 (almost a half a billion)!

Over the last 12 months, just over $4.5 billion worth of single-family homes have sold.

That’s a lot of real estate!