Denver homebuyers looking for a slowdown are still finding roadblocks: High prices, bidding wars and higher interest rates
It’s an interesting time to be shopping for a house. Mortgage rates are up, and that could mean smaller budgets to spend. Is the two-year pandemic boom in home prices across Colorado — and the rest of the U.S. — coming to an end?
An affordable housing fight in Vail is pitting the ski resort against some residents, the town, and bighorn sheep
Vail resorts and the town are facing off over the development as the need for affordable housing grows more urgent in mountain towns across Colorado. Vail’s city council voted this week to condemn the land where a habitat for bighorn sheep sits, giving the local government the right to seize the land using eminent domain in order to conserve it as habitat for the animals.
Most people who lost homes in the Marshall Fire were underinsured, Colorado insurance regulators say
At a cost of $350 per-square-foot, 67 percent of homes are underinsured.
There’s a lot of empty office space in downtown Denver. No problem, some say, make them apartments
Denver officials acknowledge office buildings are unlikely to ever go back to the way they were prior to the pandemic, and are launching a program to transform some of those buildings into housing in an effort to breathe new life into an area of the city that feels stale.
Dialysis health company DaVita, former CEO Kent Thiry found not guilty in federal antitrust case
Last year, the government charged the Denver-based dialysis provider and Thiry with colluding with competitors to suppress competition by agreeing to not recruit each other’s executives.
There are more homes for sale in Denver, but prices are still rising. Is there relief on the horizon?
At the end of March, there were 2,221 homes for sale in the Denver market. That’s an 80 percent increase from the previous month, but supply remains historically low. Could higher interest rates and more homes for sale mean lower prices?
Gov. Jared Polis wants you to be able to pay your taxes in cryptocurrency, but how does it all work?
Gov. Jared Polis wants the state to become the first to let residents use cryptocurrency to pay taxes. But what is it and how that will work exactly remains hazy.
High gas prices mean we should just pump more oil in Colorado, right? Not so fast
“It is not a case of just flipping a switch or turning a valve.”
Colorado companies are pulling out of Russia as sanctions and the invasion of Ukraine deepen
Corporations across the U.S., from fast-food operators to major airlines, have stopped doing business in and around Russia as the conflict stretches into its third week.
People who lost homes in the Marshall Fire are trying to begin rebuilding. Their insurance coverage might stand in the way
While standard homeowners’ insurance does cover wildfires, homeowners often find their policies don’t necessarily mean they’ll be made whole when they actually file a claim. According to United Policyholders, a homeowner’s insurance advocacy group, two-thirds of wildfire victims in the U.S. are underinsured.
The number of new businesses in Colorado is up, but so is the number of those closing
The number of new business filings in Colorado increased 2.9 percent in the last few months of 2021 compared to the fourth quarter of 2020.
Colorado businesses are learning the lessons to carry with them through the omicron wave and beyond
The omicron variant has made things more complicated, forcing companies to revisit practices from the early days of the pandemic — and to confront new challenges.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack pushes Biden administration’s supply chain plan in Wheat Ridge
The $1 billion plan aims to expand independent processing capacity in the meat and poultry industry.
A Day in the Life of a Restaurant Trying to Survive the Pandemic
For a long time, a common refrain has been that more than half of restaurants close before even making it a year. Now think of the chances of survival if you opened one right before the pandemic.
For people who lost homes in the Marshall Fire, insurance might not cover everything.
Losses from the Marshall Fire are estimated at $513 million. Standard homeowners’ insurance might not cover the entire cost of repairing and replacing homes lost or damaged.
Xcel Energy has given out 20,000 portable heaters. Many are still without electricity and gas
Technicians are going door to door in order to restore electric and gas.