Many ideas await the recommendations from legislators on how to spend $400 million of COVID-relief money on how to make housing more accessible to more people. “We’re all saying it: This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to make investments in housing that we would never as a state be able to make in our own,” said Cathy Alderman, chief communications and policy officer for the Colorado...
Families renting homes, apartments, and hotel rooms because they lost their housing in the Marshall fire are struggling to make rent payments. Because some renters are still waiting to hear if property owners will pay to clean smoke and ash residue from their apartments, they are living in limbo, with remediation priced at thousands of dollars. During this challenging time, the Colorado Association of REALTORS®...
Recent home listings in the Marshall Fire Burn areas are still selling over the asking price in a short time. There were 17 homes under contract that sold within two days of being on the market. The language in the listings reads differently than it did two months ago. “Instead of the remarks saying, ‘Great house, open space, and views,...
Application process now open to displaced residents ENGLEWOOD, CO – The Colorado Association of REALTORS® Foundation has been awarded a $2 million grant from the REALTORS® Relief Foundation to be distributed to victims of the December 2021 fires that ravaged Boulder County, destroying more than 1,000 residential properties. Funded through donations from REALTORS® and REALTOR® organizations and administered by the Colorado Association of...
More than 3,000 people have joined the Facebook page, Marshall Fire Housing Needs and Availability, created by REALTORS® Susan Schliep and Amanda DiVito Parle. Schliep got the idea while driving home and remembering what her parents experienced after losing their home in Grand County’s East Troublesome fire in Oct. 2020. “Fourteen months after the East Troublesome and only two homeowners have rebuilt. And they got after...
Colorado Springs REALTOR® Eddie Hurt remembers his home being destroyed in the 2012 Waldo Canyon: “In 2012, Colorado Springs home prices had been declining but leveled off by 2012 so that helped folks have sufficient insurance coverage,” he recalled. Fast-forward to 2022, and real estate in both the Colorado Spring and Boulder areas have seen home prices increase by about...
In addition to the historic low inventory in housing in Colorado, homeowners affected by the fire cannot rebuild quickly enough. “It’s going to take forever,” said Kelly Moye, CAR spokesperson and Boulder REALTOR®. A home in the Denver metro area that once took 5 months to build now takes 10 months. In what the Associated Press is calling “Pandemic-era challenges,” the obstacles to rebuilding include labor...
A new art exhibit at the Aurora History Museum depicts the lives of those who are living in hotels or their cars, in addition to those living on the street. The goal of the exhibit is to show the reality and humanity of the homeless. Housing insecurity has increased in Aurora where CAR reports show the median sale price of...
Colorado REALTORS® and disaster relief organizations worked swiftly in the early hours of the disaster to find housing for those displaced by the fire. REALTORS® Amanda DiVito Parle and Shannon Schliep launched the Marshall Fire Housing Needs and Availability Facebook page. Knowing that Boulder’s real estate inventory only had less than 2,000 homes and rental units available, they knew they needed to act fast: “I think initially...
CAR Family – Although the Marshall and Middle Fork fires continue to burn across Boulder County and the surrounding communities, our leadership team has been working with local association leaders and your CAR Foundation to take some initial steps in support of the thousands of wildfire victims. Beginning immediately, you can make financial contributions to the CAR Foundation using the link below. This is...