Alex Saldana

09/08/2026

Virginia Village might be the most underrated mid-century modern pocket in Denver, and this spring it did something weird: prices jumped 6.5% while inventory piled up to seven months, which is normally screaming buyer's market.

Both were true. A few big sales pulled the median up while the affordable stuff sat, and that's the kind of thing citywide headlines never untangle for you.

What I actually love here is the bones: big lots, 1950s ranches with real character, the Cherry Creek Trail on one side and quick access to everything. The honest downside is that stretch of Colorado Boulevard, which every local learns to route around like it's a toll road.

If you want charm without Wash Park prices and you're okay negotiating, this is the kind of neighborhood where patience pays right now.

If you're relocating to Denver, I put everything I tell my own relocation clients into one guide:

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09/07/2026

Picture a flood map, because that's what happened to Denver home values.

The city added 36,000 new apartments in three years, and they all landed in the same handful of neighborhoods because that's where you're allowed to build. Union Station, RiNo, Five Points, Jefferson Park. That's the flood plain, down 15 to 26% from the peak. Then there's the high ground, Wash Park, Wellshire, Hilltop, where you can't add homes, and those are actually up this year. Same city, same month, a 26 point spread.

Nobody left Denver. The city added jobs the whole time. Some blocks just got 10,000 new front doors within walking distance and some got none.

And quietly, construction is collapsing, from 19,000 new units in 2024 to about 5,000 next year. The neighborhoods everybody's scared of right now are the ones with the most room to recover.

The full neighborhood-by-neighborhood breakdown is in my relocation guide:

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09/06/2026

I track Denver neighborhood stats every single day, and this spring Cory Merrill showed me a number I'd never seen before: 14 months of inventory. Balanced is 4 to 6. That's the kind of stat that makes people panic.

So I dug in, and the truth was way less dramatic. Closings were steady, prices were even up a little on the year. The formula just got whipsawed because contracts went quiet for a few weeks right as listings kept coming, and in a small neighborhood that's all it takes to make the math scream crisis.

The takeaway for anyone house hunting here: one month of data in one neighborhood is noise, but a premium pocket with inventory stacking up means choices, and choices mean negotiating room.

What's your neighborhood doing right now? Drop it below and I'll take a look.

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09/05/2026

My buyers closed on a house with solar panels a few months back. Title company pulled everything, no liens, seller swore up and down the panels were paid off, and honestly the seller believed it. Then a few weeks after closing, an invoice from Tesla showed up in their mailbox.

Turns out there was a $7,500 purchase power agreement still sitting on that system. It lives outside the lien records, so title never saw it, the listing agent never saw it, and once you've closed, it becomes your problem to chase down. Took us months to get it settled, and thankfully the sellers stepped up and covered it.

Solar panels don't really add value to a Denver house, and they don't hurt it either. But the paperwork behind them can absolutely bite you. If you're buying a house with panels, get the financing behind them in writing before closing.

Moving here from out of state? My relocation guide covers the stuff agents skip. Grab it:

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09/04/2026

There's only about a two week window to catch the aspens change in Colorado, and it starts in a couple of weeks. So here's my honest top five if you're driving from Denver this year.

Kenosha Pass is the closest and has the most massive groves on the Front Range, just go on a weekday if you can because that lot fills up fast. Guanella Pass above Georgetown might be the densest stretch of aspens in the state. Peak to Peak from Nederland up to Estes is the long scenic one, make it a loop and give it half a day. Boreas Pass by Breckenridge is the quiet one, dirt road but any car makes it. And Independence Pass out to Aspen is the bucket list drive if you'll commit the whole day.

Third to fourth week of September is peak for most of these. Save this one.

Where do you go for the leaves that I left off the list?

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09/03/2026

I had clients from the San Francisco area in my backseat a while back, and the wife kept pointing out the window going, honey, look that one up, that's a $1.5 million house back home. It was listed at $675,000. Watching that math click in real time never gets old.

Colorado isn't cheap anymore, and I tell people that straight. But more people move here from California than from any other state, and it's because the trade still works: more space, property taxes among the lowest anywhere, and the mountains 30 minutes from your driveway instead of a vacation you have to plan.

The part nobody warns you about is that the internet makes the welcome sound worse than it is. Most of us came from somewhere else, me included. If you want the lifestyle, you'll fit right in.

If you're relocating to Denver, I put everything I tell my own relocation clients into one guide:

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09/03/2026

Everybody wants to know what inspection repairs actually cost, so here are the numbers I'm seeing on Denver houses right now.

A roof on a 2,000 square foot footprint runs about $18K these days, and if the old one isn't terrible, a $1,500 to $2,500 certification with a five year stamp usually settles the roof questions before they start. Sewer lines are the sneaky one. About one in five houses I work on has an issue, and spot repairs run $4K to $6K, with full replacements around $250 to $300 a foot. Furnaces are about $6K now with Colorado's new efficiency law, AC replacements run about $5K, and radon mitigation is the cheap one at about $1,250.

I spent years as a licensed plumber before I ever sold a house, and the sewer scope is the last thing I'd ever let a buyer skip. Two different cameras can tell two different stories on the same line.

I made a Denver relocation guide for exactly this kind of stuff. It's free:

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09/02/2026

Here's a stat that surprises people: you can't spend $3 million in southeast Aurora even if you want to. The whole market tops out around $1.65 million.

I pulled listings down there this week for a video. About $420K gets you into a townhome near Southlands. The 600s and 700s buy 3,200 square feet built in 2013. By the 800s you're at 5,000 square feet. And the top of the entire market, $1.65M, is a golf course house that would cost $3 to $4 million to replicate in Castle Pines.

The catch? Smaller lots and young trees. These neighborhoods are almost all less than 25 years old. You're choosing the house, the reservoir, and Cherry Creek schools over acreage.

Honestly, for a lot of families doing that math, it's the right trade.

If you're doing the Denver math right now, my guide walks through all of it:

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09/02/2026

If you're trying to sell a house in Denver right now, there's a real chance the headlines are gaslighting you.

Every article says prices are up almost 3%. Meanwhile your listing sits for 60 days while a house four miles away goes under contract in a weekend. You're not crazy, you're just being measured by the wrong number.

The median only tells you what kind of homes sold last month, and right now the cheap stuff isn't selling, so the middle drifts up while actual values in the city are down 12.7% from the 2022 peak. On top of that, 63% of closings include a seller concession, about $10K on the typical deal, and that never shows up in the headline either.

So if your house is sitting, it's probably not your kitchen. It's which side of this market you're standing on.

Anyone else watching a listing in your neighborhood sit for months while the news says everything's up?

09/01/2026

Denver Metro cities down from their peak