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Boulder County Home Prices: The Numbers We Won't Print
Your neighbour says the house behind you got $1.6M. A portal says yours is worth less than you think. The paper says the market is down. Three numbers, three different kinds of wrong, and four questions that tell you which is which.
Seller Guide
How to Price Your Home to Sell in Boulder
By Zillow's own accuracy table, half of Colorado's off-market estimates miss by more than 5.6 percent. On Boulder's July single-family median, that's a 71-thousand-dollar swing before you've hung a sign. Here's how a real list price actually gets built, and how to test it.
Buyer Guide
Buying New Construction in Colorado: The Builder's Form
Colorado exempts homebuilders from the state's contract, and the Real Estate Commission's Commission Position 1 bars your broker from advising you on the legalities of a form that isn't one. So the protections you assume are automatic were negotiated in before you signed, or they are not there.
Seller Guide
Relisting a Boulder Home: Your Contract, Not the Clock
Sellers relist to reset a clock. The IRES rulebook has no days-on-market provision to reset, and the buyers whose opinion sets your price, the ones working with an agent, can still pull the whole history. What a relist actually changes is your listing contract and your price.
Seller Guide
Selling a Home You Have Owned for Decades in Colorado
On a long-held Colorado home the basis is rarely what anyone on the deed assumes. Colorado is not a community-property state, so on a first death only the decedent's interest takes the date-of-death value and a surviving co-owner's interest keeps its original cost. Title decides which is which.
Relocation Guide
Selling a California Home to Buy in Colorado
Two California instruments land on your Colorado closing table. A Colorado team cannot advise on either, but if your Colorado offer is underwritten off your California net, the FTB's own before-close rule decides how much of that net actually arrives. Ask your CPA early.
Seller Guide
Seller Concessions vs a Price Reduction in Colorado
A concession and a payment to the buyer's brokerage are two separate lines on the Colorado contract, and the form says each is in addition to the other. A price reduction is a third thing again, and the only one of the three that no lender can touch.
Buyer Guide
Can Your Child Stay at Their School If You Move?
Usually through the end of the current semester. Colorado law lets a student who becomes a non-resident finish the term, and a twelfth-grader finishes the year. After that it is an application, not a right. What decides it is occupancy: where your child sleeps, not your deed.
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