April Market Snapshot

The New Neighborhood Price Change Map is Here!

The latest Neighborhood Price change map is here.  Below is a sample showing the darkest green areas have appreciated the most in the last 12 months.  Let me know if you would like to see a map specific to your neighborhood!

Map provided by YCRE 4/2015 - based on information from REColorado.com

Quick Market Update - Why is their no "Inventory" in the Denver housing market?

From Lon Welsh - one of the owners of YCRE:

"There are three reasons why we don’t have much inventory, and while we’ll continue to be short of inventory for the next 3-5 years:

•       Denver has historically grown by 50,000 people a year.  The Census Bureau expects that rate of growth to continue for at least another decade.  Denver metro will grow from 3.0 today to 3.5 million by 2025.

•       Millennials are the biggest generational group in Denver – 850,000 people!  Over 300,000 of them live with their parents and want their own place.  This is a huge segment of pent-up demand.  By comparison, we sell around 50,000 homes in Denver each year.

•       We need to add 11,000 rental units and 21,000 for-sale units each year to keep pace with all of this market demand.  In 2015, we’ll only add 8,000 rentals and sell 10,000 new homes.  Builders can’t even come close to keeping up.  Land is scarce, water is expensive, and there’s a skilled labor shortage.  Many building materials have gone up in price quite a bit, too.  The local governments that issue building permits are swamped.

As a result, the tight inventory for homes and rental properties will continue, even as interest rates increase.

•       Home prices will continue to increase above their historical rate of 6% per year. 

•       Rents will keep increasing faster than their historical 4% annual inflation."

Vacancy Rate LOW, Avg Rent UP!

YCRE Price Change Map

The latest YCRE Price Change Map has just been published. 
Please let me know if you would like a larger copy or a map of an area that is not shown here!

Green are the neighborhoods that have seen an increase of over 15% in value over the past year.

October Market Update

Although the inventory in the Denver market continues to be low,
the average sold price for single family homes has increased 8% from last year.

Does it make sense to invest in Real Estate?

I attended a class earlier this week on investing in real estate for the long term.  This graphic quickly caught my attention:

A quick, simple comparison of investing $100,000 for 30 years in these 6 different ways. 

The red line below is purchasing a $100,000 condo/home with cash.

The grey line is using that same $100,000 to purchase 4 properties – financed.  For example - $25,000 down on each of 4  - $100,000 properties.

Graphic prepared by YCRE based on “conservative” assumptions and analysis of historical trends. 
For general information only.

Let me know if you have any questions or would like to see more details from this presentation. 

As an investor and real estate agent, this has confirmed (once again), that I will continue to look for great investment properties!.