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.
Devonshire 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 »

When Erin and Bob Moser launched married life a decade ago in Wash Park, they noticed their neighborhood wasn’t delivering an ‘intangible something’ that they had hoped to find in an urban community: tighter relationships with neighbors. So with their first-born in the car seat, they set off looking for something better…and today you can come see what they found.

Bob and Erin Moser with sons Reid, 8, Jack, 6, and Chase, 3, in the backyard of their Heritage Hills home. The couple sold their first Heritage Hills home last year to move into this new one.

The Mosers, who now have three boys roaming on bikes and trikes through Heritage Hills in Lone Tree, are so ensconced in the neighborhood that last year they sold their first Heritage Hills home to buy a larger, newly completed custom home down the street. more »

When you drive through the town of Erie on your way to see a great looking custom ranch in an alluring neighborhood, you’ll pass right down County Line Road…Boulder County to your left, Weld to your right. “This is a town at the tipping point, coming into its own,” says Mayor Andrew Moore, who points out the new rec center, new library…new park where the Erie Lady Tigers will play. (They’ve played in the state’s 3-A division final game for all of the past 12 years, and took the title ten of those times.)

Mayor Andrew Moore of Erie, left, joins builder-owners Cat and Kirk Velarde and their Kentwood Cherry Creek agent Paula King, in front of a 5-bedroom ranch on the re-sale market at $597,000.

And don’t forget new Erie High School, on the Weld side of town on the way out to I-25. A few years back Erie was losing students, due to open enrollment. Now ACT scores, Moore notes, are way up…and the school is actually drawing enrollments from other towns. “This is so much closer to downtown,” says Kentwood Cherry Creek agent Paula King, who lives in Erie Village, where she’ll show you the 2,699-foot, 5-bedroom ranch that has another 3,000 down in the basement, with movie screening room and other goodies. It’s at $597,000…a “steal” King says…all the more so if you live in Boulder proper, where, she adds, it would be priced well over a million. more »