Rachel and Jeff LePera will have been married exactly two years when they close on their 3,100-sq.-ft. home in Stapleton this week. They filled those months looking at 20 houses in Wash Park and other trendy areas, while Jeff’s Realtor-dad Rick LePera viewed another 80. But you can visit a grand opening of the model that, once they saw it, was love at first sight.
Rachel and Jeff LePera in Infinity Home Collection’s new Carmel model home at Balboa at Stapleton. The couple will close on their own version of the plan later this week.

“It was a no brainer,” said Rachel LePera, who stopped by the new ‘Carmel’ model in Balboa at Stapleton, that’s become Infinity Home Collection’s fastest selling home. During their home search, the couple made a can’t-do-without checklist: great kitchen, usable outdoor space, finished basement for entertaining, and room for her baby grand piano. She had something else that she shares with many other younger buyers gravitating toward new-urban neighborhoods: a taste for modern, contemporary styling with wide open living spaces. more »

Buyers who want new space in Denver’s popular city neighborhoods generally have to pick between ‘pop-tops’ – homes that have been expanded from venerable brick ranches and bungalows – and ones that were scraped and built anew. The latter rarely match the original neighborhood, and the former rarely work that well as contemporary space; however, that’s not the case with one now on the market.
Kentwood agent Susan DiLiberti shows a custom home in Denver’s Cory-Merrill neighborhood near Bonnie Brae, open 2-4 today.

Today you can tour an exception. No. 1325 S. Josephine in Denver’s Cory-Merrill area, north of I-25 and east of University, is a 2005 custom that blends with its block like toast goes with marmalade. more »