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Real estate roundup: Denver brokerage touts money-saving flat fee
Joshua Hunt intends to shake up the real estate industry with a flat-fee structure designed to save home sellers thousands of dollars compared to the standard 5.8 percent commission.
The futurist: Disposable houses
The Chinese team came up with a modular approach, printing all of the components inside a large factory, and transporting and assembling the houses at their final destination.
Real estate round up: Arrested development
During the Great Recession – which officially lasted from December 2007 to June 2009 – developers stopped building condos as financing dried up for both the projects and the buyers.
Office design for a new generation
The 9 to 5 work schedule no longer exists. People may have their best ideas, or strongest work drive, at 2 a.m. rather than 2 p.m. A company must have offices that are able to accommodate all of its employees’ “peak hours”, no matter the time of day, or night.
The futurist: The huge potential of the tiny house movement
The recent recession delivered a sobering gut-check to life as usual. Easy money has caused housing prices to spiral out of control, and all of the things we thought were so important, suddenly became less so. Out of this has sprung a low carbon living crusade as a natural follow-on to the green a...
Colorado real estate: The year ahead
And even as the real estate landscape in America has changed — plots have gotten smaller, families have moved from the cities to the suburbs and back again — most of us have held on to our dreams of home ownership. Despite ups and downs in the market, a home is still an incredibly valuable asset,...
Real Estate Roundup: Reclaiming Brighton Boulevard
Long eyed by Denver planners for its potential, the Brighton Boulevard corridor is attracting the attention of developers and businesses wanting to locate in what once was a tangle of rail yards and large industrial plants. Though slow to evolve, the renaissance started with the early vision of urban pioneer Mickey Zeppelin[...]
Selling a home the digital way
Marketing a home has changed dramatically in just a few short years. It wasn’t that long ago that selling a property meant sticking a for-sale sign in the front lawn and taking out an ad in the local paper. Those days have changed! Real estate marketing isn’t just print advertising anymore – or radio, or […]
Cherry Creek East responds to rental demand
Two major projects underway in Denver’s Cherry Creek East neighborhood will add more than 350 rental units to the upscale area – and there’s more on the way. Broadstone Gardens at Cherry Creek, a 108-unit project located on Alameda Avenue and a block west of Colorado Boulevard, is slated for completion in early 2014 but [&[...]
2013 Top Company winner: RE-Construction
Real Estate . Construction . Contracting Winner: Oakwood Homes LLC Oakwood is considered one of Colorado and the nation’s premier luxury home builders and master-planned community developers, having built more than 10,000 homes since its inception in 1991. Differentiator Oakwood manufactures its own wall and roof systems to ensure quality and a systematic approach […]
Office space evolution
Perhaps unsurprisingly, a hot topic of discussion these days is how companies can capitalize on technologies that untether and mobilize employees. If an employee can move from a desktop to laptop computer, can that employee suffice with a smaller desk? If the contents of a file cabinet can be digitized and saved onto that laptop[...]
Selling your home?
If your primary residence has never been a second home, used as a rental property or claimed as a home office deduction, the tax treatment upon the house sale is simple. Capital gains taxes be only be required if a single person has a net profit above $250,000 ($500,000 for a couple). However, if...
