In the interest of full-disclosure, I am a Realtor. I think this bailout is insane and incredibly short-sighted. Taking my Realtor® hat off and putting my MBA hat on, let me offer the following: •· I understand that liquidity is the problem, but injecting money does NOT guarantee that liq
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10/15/2008
Market Trend Analysis - Denver Metro Selected Towns/Cities Based on information from Metrolist, Inc. for period August 7, 2008 to September 9, 2008. Single Family Residences - All Price Levels Excludes Housing Not Listed in MetroList Note: Six (5.5 to 6.5) Months of Inventory Tends to Indica
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09/15/2008
Market Trend Analysis - Denver Metro Selected Towns/Cities Based on information from Metrolist, Inc. for period August 7, 2008 to September 9, 2008. Single Family Residences - All Price Levels Excludes Housing Not Listed in MetroList Note: Six (5.5 to 6.5) Months of Inventory
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09/15/2008
Market Trend Analysis - Denver Metro Selected Towns/Cities Based on information from MetroList, Inc. for period July 10, 2008 to August 7, 2008. Single Family Residences - All Price Levels Excludes Housing Not Listed in MetroList Note: Six (5.5 to 6.5) Months of Inventory Tends to Indicate N
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08/07/2008
Is Denver facing a housing shortage? Well, maybe not a comprehensive shortage, but one where it counts - right in the market sweet spot, the median priced home. Over the past few months Denver has been acting countercyclically to the national market. If you read my monthly blog, accessible from
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08/07/2008
So, given all this, doesn't it make sense to wait? Not really. There is a potential cost associated with waiting, that I like to call "The Procrastination Tax". You pay it, and don't even realize it! And it's likely the biggest tax you will pay! Well, remember when you bought that Jan Michael V
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05/24/2008
The Market Let me share some insights that, perhaps, you might not have considered in regard to YOUR home ownership. Now, I hear that a lot of folks say they are waiting for the "bottom of the market". You might have heard me say on the radio that the market is not the buyer's market that everyo
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05/24/2008
The Opportunity Truth be told, there is a world of opportunity out there. Let’s just share some of it with you: Historically low interest rates (click here to see the chart from the St. Louis Fed) When you add the cost of money and inflation, real interest rates (the return on money over infla
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05/24/2008
THE GREAT DECEPTION The world is not ending. Birds are chirping. The sun rises and sets everyday...just like normal. Things are not as bad as you hear. In fact, this country is doing very well. The USA is doing much, much better than you would think from listening to the news. You have li
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05/24/2008
Well, it's a scary market. That's what everyone is hearing, including me. However, I have the benefit of working this business everyday and I see the atrocious spin out there. It's spin that could cause you to be focused on the wrong things in today's market. If one were to listen to the nation
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05/24/2008