Living in Colorado

Just Listed: Charming Home Minutes Away From Downtown Littleton

Charming 2 bedroom, 3 bath, 2-car attached garage home conveniently located minutes from downtown Littleton.

Walking distance to elementary and middle school. Landscaped yard with covered patio and gazebo great for entertaining. Cozy living room with vaulted ceiling, skylight and new gas fireplace. 2 Bed/2 Bath located upstairs. Finished basement. Well maintained home and ready for move in!

846 West Peakview Avenue

Listed by Esperanza Wardroup for West + Main Homes. Please contact Esperanza for current pricing + availability.

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The Look of Homes in the Denver Area is Changing More Than Ever

The scraping of Denver: bye-bye bungalows; hello townhomes, duplexes and mansions

On one stretch of West 13th Street a block south of West Colfax Avenue, every street for 10 blocks has had at least one lot scraped and developed in the last three years.

That puts the West Colfax neighborhood, where rows of townhomes are replacing 100-year-old bungalows, near the top for scrapes competing with hot spots in Sunnyside and East Wash Park.

About 1,200 structures have been demolished and replaced with new ones since 2016, according to data provided by the City of Denver and analyzed by BusinessDen.

Sloan’s Lake, Berkeley and East Wash Park had the most scrapes, according to the data. And scrapes in the last three years have pushed into previously…

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Colorado is Home to Some of the Healthiest Housing Markets

Colorado Springs, Aurora, and Denver are some three of the healthiest markets in the US

A new SmartAsset study ranks the housing markets of three Colorado cities in the top 10 healthiest in the United States.

Colorado Springs ranked No. 3, Aurora ranked No. 7 and Denver ranked No. 9.

The study used four factors to determine a healthy market: stability, affordability, fluidity, and risk of loss. It only considered cities with a population greater than 200,000.

On a national scale, Buffalo, New York, ranked No. 1 healthiest housing market in the U.S.

The study saw Colorado Springs homeowners living in their homes for an average of 11.9 years. Aurora and Denver were slightly lower at an average of 11.4 years.

Aurora topped the list…

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Denver Art Museum will be only U.S. stop for the biggest Monet exhibit in decades

“Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature” opens at the DAM on Oct. 20, 2019

The Denver Art Museum will be the only U.S. museum to show the most comprehensive survey of Claude Monet paintings in two decades when it opens “Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature” next year, officials announced today.

The exhibit will fill three galleries and more than 20,000 square feet of space with 100-plus paintings spanning the legendary French Impressionist’s career, with an emphasis on “the artist’s enduring relationship with nature and his response to the varied and distinct places in which he worked,” according to the DAM. That includes Monet’s increasing isolation from people and immersion in nature, which typified the latter days of his career.

Group tickets…

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Just Listed: Charming Condo in Thornton, Colorado

Perfect Place to Call Home!

This quiet little community has lots of green lawn and a clubhouse and swimming pool for cooling down. Perfect location with a walkscore of 52! Close to Restaurants and shopping and not far to the Lightrail station at 102nd and Colorado. Charming Condo has a great living space with fireplace and vaulted ceilings. Corner unit with lots of sunshine. The kitchen has yards of counterspace. There is also a perfect office area. Laundry room and walk-in closet make this 1 bed 1 bath super comfortable living. 1st floor is attached garage and 2nd floor is living with the breeze. (no snow scraping here!) French doors open up to covered deck.

3241 E 103rd Place, Thornton CO

Listed by Cyndi Adams for West + Main Homes.…

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Denver's Hottest Neighborhoods for Buyers

Homes in South Denver, North Aurora and Lowry are among the top in Colorado for home buyers

Metro Denver’s housing market has run hot for about six years, and while signs nationally point to the residential real estate market running out of fuel, some areas in metro Denver remain on fire, with rates of annual home price appreciation approaching 40 percent this year.

The Denver Post asked the Denver Metro Association of Realtors, Zillow, Trulia, Redfin and a Boulder firm, Zavvie, to rank the most robust ZIP codes and neighborhoods for home price and sales gains this year. The areas that showed up the most often on the various rankings were included on the list below of the hottest neighborhoods.

Price gains were a big determinant but so too…

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Denver's Best New Bars of 2018 (so far)

Denver's best up-and-coming hot spots

With 2018 halfway done, we're looking back at six months of thirst-quenching, creative and satisfying drinks in new bars, taprooms and beer gardens throughout Denver. We're not content to imbibe boring booze or sit in the same tired sports bars. Instead, we're attracted to bold flavors, new ideas, expert craftsmanship and generous hospitality. Here are the ten best new bars of 2018, so far:

American Bonded
2706 Larimer Street
Three of Denver's bar elite teamed up to open American Bonded this spring. Sean Kenyon of Williams & Graham, Kevin Burke, formerly of Ste. Ellie and Colt & Gray, and Justin Anthony of Matchbox combined their talents and sensibilities to add a welcoming and inexpensive option to Larimer…

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Just Listed: Luxury East Wash Park Bungalow With Main Floor Master

Gorgeous East Wash Park Bungalow with luxury updates! 

This home sits on a large 6,250 square foot lot on a quiet tree lined street perfectly located to walk to South Gaylord, Bonnie Brae, Washington Park, and Cherry Creek!  Remodeled with great attention to detail, the thoughtful floor plan is an entertainer’s dream with open concept kitchen and dining rooms leading to the illuminated addition with soaring ceilings, hardwood floors and double french doors that open to a private, professionally landscaped backyard with sprinkler system and raised garden beds- combining your indoor/outdoor living experience.  When back inside gather around the fireplace or cozy up in the home theater.  Oversized main floor master bedroom suite with gorgeous…

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5 of the Coolest Colorado Cabins You Can Rent

From a Hobbit home, to a cabin with a personal hot spring

Even if you’ve lived in the state your whole life, odds are you haven’t truly experienced what it’s like to live in all of Colorado’s wonderfully varied environs. While you’re probably grateful that you haven’t spent a month living in the Englewood Chuck E. Cheese, there are oodles of weekend destinations in the state that could enrich your perspective on living here.

What’s it like to wake up in a 19th-century mining cabin next to a private hot spring, for example? Or in a tiny home fashioned after the Hobbit houses in “The Lord of the Rings”? These are important questions, and we found some answers.

Here the 5 most interesting cabins for rent in Colorado:

Wee House

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Larimer Square is Now on America's "Most Endagered Historic Places" List

Controversial plans for redevelopment of "the street where Denver began" landed it on The National Trust for Historic Preservation's "America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places" list.

Larimer Square has been named one of "America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places."

The National Trust for Historic Preservation came out with its list this week, and the Denver location was singled out.

"It is threatened by an inappropriate development proposal that calls for partial demolition of several buildings, the potential construction of two towers, and weakening the groundbreaking ordinance that has long protected the famous square," the trust wrote on its website.

The development proposal in question is one proposed by Jeff Hermanson, president…

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