Driving Park Historic District Sales Trends 2008-2009

Since my last look into our neighborhood’s sales performance (2007-2008), I was able to conclude that while the rest of the world seemed to be drowning in sorrow, Driving Park Historic District was decidedly middle-of-the-road sales wise. I’ll take normal over recession any day of the week, and that’s pretty where we’ve been for the [...]

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Save Yourself From Street Cleaning Tickets!

Now, I’m not going to teach you how to get out of parking tickets. I’m going to help you save yourself a mountain of frustration when you, your neighbors or clients approach their car in the morning and find a nice little present accompanied by a bitter yellow envelope tucked under the wiper blade.
Let me [...]

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Driving Park Historic District Sales Stats 2007 – 2008

If you want only good news about home sales these days, stop reading at the end of this paragraph. Driving Park Historic District average sales prices skyrocketed 20% from 2007-2008!
But you know there’ll be a catch.
I will get to that, but allow me to remind you of how wonderful your neighborhood is. Driving Park Historic [...]

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Denver Is Recovering, But Was Never That Sick

Because we don’t live in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Southern California or Florida, none of us will really ever know how bad it could have been here in Colorado. Don’t believe me? I’ve got Realtor contacts in those cities that will give you horror stories about sales in those markets that will give new meaning to [...]

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How to sell your house from the driver’s seat

I happen to live in Denver’s Driving Park Historic District, which encompasses all houses north of 4th, south of 6th between Downing and High. We moved into a 1400 sf Victorian in 1999 for way more than we wanted to spend, and struggled for at least 2 years wondering how we would spend the remaining [...]

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