During the 1930s, when the old Fort Collins Metropolitan Railway trolley ran along Mountain Avenue’s center tree lawn between downtown and the fairgrounds, there was a small, Queen-Anne styled bungalow at 1516 W. Mountain.

Doug Means with Coldwell Banker’s Drake office in Fort Collins shows a 4-bedroom custom that retains some styling showed by its predecessor bungalow.

The trolley line shut down in the 1950s…but 30 years later volunteers got it running again (the fairgrounds became City Park Lake and pool); and on weekend afternoons May to September you can catch the trolley from downtown, past that house — now transformed into a 4,621-square-foot custom that’s on view by appointment. more »

“People don’t want projects; they don’t have time for them these days,” says Hilltop expert Denice Reich – who can show you a 1956 six-bedroom brick colonial, loads of Old World charm, that’s already been completely redone, top-to-bottom, at Cedar and Birch, three blocks south of Cranmer Park.

Brick colonial at 4400 E. Cedar in Hilltop.

Reich, listed as the 89th-top-selling RE/MAX agent in the entire world last year (out of 90,000 agents!), says that Hilltop’s market is warming up this fall. more »

In neighborhoods all over Denver – Wash Park, Montclair, Highlands – the same phenomenon happens month after month: Young families outgrow their small houses built in the 1920s, the 1950s and ‘60s, and head for Stapleton, where they can have Denver’s urban feel they’ve come to love, along with space they just can’t get in those older areas.

Infinity sales reps Jason Cummings (left) and Jesus Orozco, Jr., join project manager Tyler Steinke at the grand opening of PURE, a series of larger homes and sites at Stapleton.

Builder Dave Steinke, who’s been in Stapleton almost from the day it opened, has watched those buyers and has a new series that’s a perfect match for what he says they’re after – homes you can tour at a grand opening for Infinity Home Collection’s new PURE. more »