Denver’s pricey Hilltop neighborhood showing reduced inventory

Posted March 8, 20100 comments

If you looked at luxury inventory in Denver’s Hilltop neighborhood a year ago, you would have seen no less than 47 homes priced $1 million to $2 million. But that picture has drastically changed…only 14 homes on the market in that range now; including one that originally came on at $2.4 million…now $1.85 million.
Dawn RaymondDevonshire agent Dawn Raymond shows a recent custom home in Hilltop. Much of the neighborhood’s luxury inventory has been absorbed.

“It’s remarkable; there was SO much inventory,” Coldwell Banker Devonshire agent Dawn Raymond, who is listing the home at 301 S. Cherry. “Now it’s like we’re the only game in town.” more »

At Granby Ranch, ‘boutique’ mountain draws a family crowd to ski-in/ski-out condos priced 40% off

Posted March 6, 20100 comments

When Tony and Lisa Nolan of Highlands Ranch took off skiing in Winter Park over the holidays, they had no idea that they would end up captivated by an entirely different mountain…or that they’d put down a deposit on a new ski-in, ski-out condo…one with a price $150,000 less than when the project opened last year.

Base Camp OneWatching the kids ski at Sol Vista, homeowners gather for wine-n-cheese at Base Camp One; including Tony and Lisa Nolan, left; developer Greg Finch, center, and his daughter Amy and wife Sharon to the right.

Last week the Nolans were back with their young kids to see their place at Base Camp One, by the lifts at Sol Vista in Granby Ranch, 15 miles beyond Winter Park. “I had no idea this was here,” Lisa Nolan said, spending their first weekend skiing at Sol Vista, where the condo is set to close this week. “It just makes so much sense.” more »

Sale near Piney Creek has new townhouse with amenities, $80,926 off

Posted February 22, 20100 comments

When a builder like Colonnade Communities makes a master-planned neighborhood, there’s a reason why. At Pioneer Hills, a luxury enclave holding a one-week sale on a 1,494-foot townhome,the reason why lies just east in Piney Creek, a popular single family area that was a Parade of Homes in the 1980s and spawned upscale neighborhoods for decades afterward.

Pioneer HillsSilvio DeBartolomeis and Cheryl Harpt in the kitchen of Pioneer Hills 3-bedroom show home. That model sold…around the corner from a 1,494-foot home on sale for $239,900.

When you have nice single-family homes, sooner or later you have kids who grow up and leave…empty nesters who want out of shoveling snow…people changing, needing newer spaces. Most of those people still want to stay in the same neighborhood, with its trails and Cherry Creek Schools; and Colonnade reaches to them with a neighborhood that has a secluded feel, big pool and cabana, parks and trails. more »