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Real estate headlines across the country are buzzing with tales of increases in home prices, but no place more loudly than right here in Colorado. We are the #1 hottest market in the nation, for now.
While NAR forecasts the hottest fall market in years overall, we are hearing that, here in Colorado, we may begin to see a major slowdown of sales.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill
Depending on the perspective from which you are viewing the market, you could find reason to be pessimistic. However, taken as a whole, the picture that’s been painted over the last 8 months is by and large a positive one.
Just about every real estate agent has a story about the buyer who was very particular about what they wanted in their new home, then bought almost the exact opposite in the end!
When you walk into the perfect home, you just know it, even if it doesn’t get any check marks on the “must have” worksheet. That’s just one of the quirky truths in the real estate business that has no logical explanation. It simply is what it is.
Each generation has had their own great impact on the real estate market as each comes of home buying age.
Millennials are no different, they just haven’t been as decipherable as they follow a new path of progression to adulthood. Anticipating their housing preferences has been a tough call for the experts, mainly because the forces driving millennials decisions are very different from those that drove the generations before them.
