Answer Brief
Do You Have to Take Over the Solar Lease When You Buy?
Leased solar panels don't convey with the house the way a dishwasher does. You either qualify to assume the lease or the seller buys it out, and a lien called a UCC-1 has to be cleared before closing. Start it early, because the solar company is the slow part.
Answer Brief
What Conveys With a House in Colorado?
Listing photos promise nothing. What stays with a Colorado house is decided by two printed lists and two blanks in the standard contract, and a storage shed conveys whether it is attached or not. The case that catches buyers is an item the seller owns but is still paying for.
POV Note
Is a Half-Renovated House Worth It in Colorado?
Everyone discounts the house with the gutted bathroom. The expensive one is the house that looks finished and isn't: priced as finished, carrying the cost of undone. Why the same remodel pays in one Boulder neighborhood and loses four miles away, and where the middle is the right place to stand.
Relocation Guide
Buying a House in Colorado From Texas: The 12-Day Rule
If you are borrowing against the Texas homestead to buy in Colorado, the ceiling and the calendar are set by Texas Constitution Section 50(a)(6), not by your lender. Texas takes nothing from you when you leave, so nothing at that closing table makes you check which of your habits still work here.
Boulder
Buying on University Hill: The Licence, the Lease and the Loan
Three things decide whether you can live in a University Hill house, and none is the price. Boulder's unrelated-persons occupancy limit is gone, replaced by a bedroom-area standard on the floor plan. A rental licence does not come with the house. And a tenant changes what loan you qualify for.
Local Guide
Grand Lake via Rocky Mountain National Park
Old Fall River Road and Trail Ridge Road to Grand Lake is one of our favorite day trips in the area, and one we especially love sharing with our guests when they’re in town. What makes this drive so special is how dramatically the landscape changes along the way—
Answer Brief
Colorado Property Tax Reassessment 2027: The Key Dates
Colorado reappraises every property in odd-numbered years, and 2027 is one. The value is built from sales through June 30, 2026, before a fall-2026 buyer closed. Your notice arrives by May 1, and the protest deadline is June 1, moved up a week from the June 8 most sources still print.
POV Note
In a Colorado Home Purchase, Your Leverage Expires
Buyers think leverage in a home purchase is about pushing harder. In Colorado it's about timing: three separate moments where a decision made in the calm wins, and the same decision made in the heat loses. Here's the pattern, and why there's no single rule for it.
Answer Brief
Why a Home's Square Footage Doesn't Match the County's
Three different square-footage numbers on one house isn't a mistake. It's usually the basement, and knowing which number the appraiser uses is the difference between a fair price and paying above-grade money for below-grade space.
Buyer Guide
Physician Loans in Boulder County: What Actually Helps
Physician loans are sold on three features. In Boulder County's $800K-$1.5M band, two do less than advertised: one lender's cheapest tiers stop before $880,000, and the 90-day contract rule is a general Fannie Mae rule. What decides your file is how your student loans are documented.
Move-Up Guide
Low Appraisal When You're Selling and Buying in Boulder
The appraisal that ends a Boulder move-up is usually on the house you're selling, not the one you're buying. Your proceeds are the down payment. Every right in the contract's appraisal section belongs to your buyer, and the appeal channel isn't yours either. Here's what actually protects you.
Local Guide
Pine Brook Hills
Pine Brook Hills is one of Boulder’s most desirable foothills communities, nestled in the mountains just west of the city. Surrounded by towering pine forests, abundant wildlife, and beautiful mountain and valley views, the neighborhood offers a peaceful sense of privacy while still being just a short drive from
Answer Brief
Is This Front Range Home in a Flood Zone? How to Check
Checking whether a home is in a flood zone takes two minutes on the right map, and it tells you whether a lender will make you carry flood insurance. But after 2013, the Front Range learned the map isn't the whole risk. Here's how to look, and what the zone does and doesn't tell you.
Answer Brief
Colorado Due Diligence Documents Deadline: Blank Deletes It
The seller's duty to hand you the leases, the solar plan, the septic permit and the encumbrance paperwork lives in one section of Colorado's standard contract, and it exists only if someone fills in its deadlines. Left blank, the contract deletes it. Here's what's in it, and what a blank costs.
Answer Brief
When Is Your Earnest Money Actually at Risk in Colorado?
Your earnest money is protected by an unexpired right to terminate, or by the seller being in default. Colorado's contract names the moment it turns, once, in capitals, at the loan deadline. One checkbox decides whether the deposit is the ceiling, with narrow exceptions, or only the first item.
Seller Guide
Selling a Home in a Metro District in Colorado
In a Colorado metro district, the number that kills your sale is your buyer's debt-to-income ratio, not your price. Since August 6, 2025, resale sellers in post-2000 districts owe a pre-contract disclosure. Use it as a filter, and spend concession dollars on a permanent buydown, not a price cut.
Boulder
Living in Whittier, Boulder: The Unmapped Preservation Rule
Whittier is not one of Boulder's ten local historic districts, and buyers read that absence as freedom. What applies instead is the citywide demolition review, where enlarging a street-facing window counts as demolition. Unmapped is not a lighter rule. It is a less predictable one.
Answer Brief
Is an ILC a Survey in Colorado? What It Can't Tell You
Your file has an Improvement Location Certificate in it, and it looks like a survey. Colorado statute requires it to say, in print, that it is not one and may not be relied on for a fence line. Here is what it does certify, what it can't, and when the difference costs you.
POV Note
Can You Even Insure This House? In Colorado, Ask First
Buyers treat homeowners insurance as a box to check near closing. On the Front Range in 2026, it's the constraint that can kill the deal before financing does, and it should shape which town and which house you shop, not just how your inspection week goes.
Answer Brief
Your Metro District's Mill Levy Cap Is Not a Number
Everyone tells you to check the metro district's authorized maximum in the service plan. Nobody tells you that maximum moves. In Colorado it is written as a formula that rises whenever the state cuts the residential assessment rate — which is how a 50-mill cap ends up charging 63.6.
Buyer Guide
Colorado Contract Deadlines: What Happens If You Miss One
In Colorado the purchase contract is a clock, not a document. Every deadline runs itself, and missing one costs you a right or costs you cash. Here's the ten that do most of the damage, what silence does on each row, and the inspection trap that quietly ends deals.
Relocation Guide
Relocating to Boulder County: The Employer Guide
Most relocation advice starts with the town, and that is the reversal that costs money. The order is employer tether, then commute node, then town, then parcel. Before any of it, the Colorado buyer-agency paperwork has to be e-signed before your fly-in tour, not at the curb of the first house.
Answer Brief
Your HOA Documents Came Late — Can You Still Walk?
Late HOA documents don't erase your out. Under Colorado's standard contract, receiving them late gives you a Right to Terminate within up to ten days of the full packet, and a partial packet doesn't start that clock. Here's the deadline that decides it and what to read before it passes.
POV Note
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.
Local Guide
Where Are the People and Money Going in Colorado?
The way I think about real estate investing—particularly when it comes to long-term appreciation and maximizing occupancy—is by studying the data to understand where people are moving, traveling, and spending their time. Attractions Colorado attracts approximately 77.7 million visitors each year. Beyond the Denver metro area,
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.
Local Guide
Farms and Orchards Around Boulder
Boulder has one of the strongest local farming communities in Colorado, with more than 1,000 farms across Boulder County. Many are working farms that welcome visitors for farm stands, tours, U-pick events, CSA pickups, and seasonal festivals. One of our favorite activities to do with our older daughter
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.
Local Guide
Less Popular RMNP Hikes
Rocky Mountain National Park's (RMNP) most famous trails—such as Emerald Lake, Sky Pond, and Alberta Falls—can become extremely crowded, especially from late June through early September. If you're looking for a quieter experience, consider exploring some of the park's lesser-visited trail
Local Guide
Living In Longmont: Small-City Vibe, Big Colorado Access
Wondering if you have to choose between a more relaxed pace and easy access to everything Colorado offers? In Longmont, you may not have to. If you are looking for a place with a distinct local identity, everyday outdoor access, and strong connections to Boulder, Denver, and Northern Colorado, Longmont
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.
Seller Guide
Preparing To Sell Your Boulder Home With Maximum Impact
If you want to sell your Boulder home for the strongest possible result, hoping the market does the heavy lifting is not enough. Buyers in today’s market are still active, but they are also selective, price-aware, and quick to compare your home against every other listing they see
First-Time Buyer
How to Secure the Best Real Estate Deal
Real estate success isn’t about luck—it’s about making informed decisions with the right guidance. Whether you’re buying your first home, growing your investment portfolio, or making a move to support your changing goals, we believe the best results come from preparation, flexibility, and a clear plan.
Longmont
How The Longmont Housing Market Compares To Nearby Cities
Wondering whether Longmont gives you more value than Boulder, or if Denver opens up more choices? If you are trying to buy or sell along the Front Range, that question matters because price, inventory, and home style can change a lot from one city to the next. A clear side-
Local Guide
Everyday Life In Boulder: Trails, Cafes, Community
Looking for a city where a morning trail loop, a good coffee, and an easy downtown stroll can all fit into the same day? That rhythm is a big part of what draws people to Boulder. If you are thinking about moving here, visiting neighborhoods, or simply trying to picture
First-Time Buyer
Condo, Townhome, Or House In Boulder? How To Decide
Trying to choose between a condo, townhome, or house in Boulder? You are not alone. For many buyers, this decision shapes not just the purchase price, but also your monthly budget, maintenance load, and daily lifestyle. If you want a clearer way to compare your options in Boulder’s market,
First-Time Buyer
Buying Newer Versus Older Homes In Longmont
Trying to choose between a newer home and an older one in Longmont? You are not just comparing age. You are comparing different eras of city growth, different construction standards, different maintenance profiles, and often very different day-to-day living experiences. If you understand how Longmont’s housing stock
Boulder
Boulder Housing Market Insights Beyond Headlines
Is Boulder crashing, booming, or just confusing right now? If you have been skimming market headlines, you have probably seen numbers that seem to conflict with each other. That can make it hard to know whether it is a smart time to buy, sell, or simply wait. The good news
Local Guide
Is Boulder a Blue Zone?
Boulder County consistently ranks among the healthiest communities in the United States and boasts one of the highest life expectancies in the country. While Boulder is not officially designated as a Blue Zone, its culture and lifestyle often draw comparisons to the world’s longest-living communities. What is a
Local Guide
New Restaurants in Longmont: Who Took Over Which Room
Longmont's 2026 restaurant turnover is mostly not new construction. It is inherited rooms with new operators: a thirty-year Caribbean space, a shuttered noodle shop, a downtown storefront. The address now tells you less than it used to. Here is what is open, where, and what each one is.
Local Guide
What's New Around Pearl Street: Boulder's Fine-Dining Unbundling
Boulder's 2026 restaurant story isn't more restaurants, it's fine-dining talent unbundling — chefs from Frasca and Sushi Den opening smaller, more shareable rooms you can visit more than once a season. What opened, exactly where, and how the free summer programming fits around it.
Boulder
Living in Table Mesa, Boulder: The In-Band Ranch, and What It Really Costs
Table Mesa is where a move-up budget still buys a detached house inside Boulder city, but the vehicle is a 1950s–70s ranch with a finished basement, not a view lot, and it's a stacked cost you underwrite going in. Here's which rung your band reaches, and what the ranch really costs.
Move-Up Guide
How Much Equity Do You Need to Move Up in Boulder? Run Your Real Number
If you feel stuck in a house you've outgrown, the number that decides whether you can move up isn't your home's value or your Zestimate. It's your net equity after costs, measured against the next home's real cash-to-close. Here's how to run it tonight.
Relocation Guide
Best Boulder Neighborhoods for Remote Workers: Buy the Parcel, Not the Position
If you can work from anywhere, you're the one Boulder buyer with no commute to justify the premium, so you stop optimizing the map and start optimizing the parcel: two real offices, fiber at the exact address, and the five-minute radius you'll actually use.
Relocation Guide
Relocating to Boulder for a NOAA or NIST Job: Rent, Verify, Then Buy
A NOAA or NIST move is the one Boulder relocation you can neither schedule nor stretch into: the start date slips, the move may be unfunded, and a new hire's income is least protected exactly when they're tempted to buy. So you rent, verify, then buy from strength.
Comparison Guide
Where to Live for the Boulder–Denver Commute: Pick the Node, Not the Midpoint
The cheap house at the geographic midpoint is usually the worst commute you can buy. On the Boulder–Denver corridor you don't split the distance; you pick a transit node that matches your real in-office cadence, and you price the toll and the insurance, not just the mortgage.
Comparison Guide
Niwot vs. Gunbarrel: The One Difference That Actually Decides It
Niwot and Gunbarrel look like the same house at the same price on Zillow. They're not, and the mailing address and the town name both hide the one thing that actually decides between them: the school district, which runs by parcel, not by name.
Berthoud
Berthoud Housing Market Report (Updated Monthly)
Berthoud runs 6.2 months of single-family supply — the only corridor town above the six-month buyer's-market line, and the only one that loosened this year. Its median then fell $132,500 in one release on 26 sales, the construction-mix artifact this report warns you not to price off.
Loveland
Loveland Housing Market Report (Updated Monthly)
Loveland's single-family supply fell from 4.0 months to 2.8 in a year — and its median went nowhere, flat at $527,750 year to date. Tightness and price are different variables, and Loveland is the corridor's clearest proof. Why the move-up band above the median behaves differently again.
Relocation Guide
Relocating to Boulder for a Google Job: 2026 Home Map
Moving to Boulder for a Google job flips the usual advice. One central campus by Boulder Junction, a three-day badge, and priced against Santa Clara's $1.96M median, Boulder's $1,300,000 single-family median reads as a discount, if you're buying the walk-to-work life, not chasing corridor space.
Comparison Guide
Boulder vs. Longmont: What Your Equity Actually Buys
Year to date through July, Boulder's single-family median is $1,300,000; Longmont's is $610,000. The gap is real. But you're not buying a town median. You're buying a position in it, and the same $800K–$1.5M is entry-to-mid in Boulder and upper-tier in Longmont. Two edges, opposite problems.
Move-Up Guide
Moving Up in Boulder With a 3% Mortgage: Lock-In Math
No, your 3% rate doesn't move with you: a conventional loan dies at closing. But on a typical Boulder move-up the payment climbs about $2,312 a month, and only $1,469 of that is the rate. Call that the rate-only delta. The other $843 is simply owing more, and you'd owe it at 3% too.
Local Guide
Boulder History
Most Colorado towns boomed with mining and faded when the gold ran out. Boulder was never a major mining town — it supplied them, then bet on education, science and conservation instead. That choice, including a first-in-the-nation open-space tax in 1967, is why the city looks the way it does.
Market Pulse
Northern Front Range Housing Market: The Mid-2026 Read
Longmont's July report says the single-family median rose 5.2% and fell 2.4% — same town, same report, different window. That is the whole problem with a headline median. Here is what the northern Front Range actually did in July, and where the move-up value sits now.
Relocation Guide
Relocating to Boulder for Ball Aerospace: A Home Map
If you're moving for a Ball Aerospace (now BAE Systems) job in the $800K–$1.5M band, the corridor towns north of Boulder often buy more house and an easier commute. Loveland's single-family median sale price was $527,750 against Boulder's $1,300,000 (CAR/IRES, YTD through July 2026).
Longmont
Longmont Housing Market Report (Updated Monthly)
Longmont tightened to 2.7 months of supply while Boulder held flat at 4.5, so the gap widened rather than closed. Homes go under contract in 43 days against Boulder's 87. The year-to-date median is down 2.4%. All three are true at once, and together they price a move-up trade.
Boulder
Living in Niwot, Colorado: A Move-Up Buyer's Guide
Niwot is the most on-segment $1M–$1.5M address in Boulder County, typical value around $1.05M (Zillow ZHVI, 2026), a Boulder mailing address on large lots. The premium buys a specific identity: St. Vrain Valley schools (not Boulder Valley), Left Hand water, unincorporated county land.
Local Guide
Preparing for a Hike
A little preparation is the difference between a hike you remember and one you endure. What to check before you go, what we actually carry, how to read changing mountain weather, and the trail etiquette that makes the outdoors better for everyone on it.
Move-Up Guide
Bridge Loan vs. Sale Contingency in Boulder: A Move-Up Buyer's Real Menu
Found your next Boulder home before yours sold? The real move-up choice isn't bridge-vs-contingency; it's a menu gated by whether you qualify to carry two payments and when you can reach your equity. Here's the honest read, with the numbers.
Boulder
Boulder Housing Market Report (Updated Monthly)
Boulder's single-family median rose to $1,355,000 in July while days on market jumped to 87 — both moved the same way, which is the tell. Supply held flat at 4.5 months. That median isn't your price: the move-up band straddles it, and the luxury tail above behaves nothing like the middle.
Boulder
Living in Gunbarrel: The Boulder-Schools Value Play
Gunbarrel is the one Boulder-address pocket that keeps Boulder Valley (BVSD) schools while costing less: detached homes run roughly the low-$800Ks to about $1.1M vs a Boulder-city median of $1,300,000. The catch is the parcel's jurisdiction, part City of Boulder, part unincorporated county.
Local Guide
Dining in Boulder
Boulder punches far above its size at the table: a Michelin star, a James Beard Outstanding Restaurant winner, and a hand-carved teahouse gifted by a sister city. Ten places worth knowing, what each is actually known for, and which occasion each one fits.
Local Guide
Weekend Outdoor Life in Longmont: Parks, Greenways and Reservoirs
Longmont's outdoor life is built for repeat use rather than the big day out: a greenway network you can pick up from most neighborhoods, in-town nature stops, reservoirs for variety, and dog-friendly options — with the mountains still close when you want them.
Move-Up Guide
Owning Two Homes at Once: The Overlap Nobody Plans For
Once your bridge loan or contingency is set, owning two homes for 30 to 60 days stops being a money problem and becomes a possession-and-insurance one: a rent-back that hardens into a tenancy, and a homeowner policy that quietly suspends coverage on the empty house.
Move-Up Guide
Is a Bigger Boulder Home Actually Worth the Upgrade?
A move from a $1.0M home to a $1.4M one isn't a $400K upgrade. Everyone counts the round-trip friction; almost nobody prices the permanent reset. With no Prop-13 lock here, you take over the bigger home's higher property tax and insurance the day you own it, and they stay. So is it worth it?
Boulder
Wonderland Lake, Boulder: A North Boulder Neighborhood Guide
Wonderland Lake in North Boulder backs permanently protected City of Boulder open space, so the setting can't be built out the way a private view or a nature-adjacent subdivision can. What that permanence is worth, what backing wild land costs, and how the mixed housing stock ranges.
Local Guide
Family Friendly Boulder Hikes
The best hike with kids is the one that ends before anyone melts down. These Boulder trails stay short and gentle without feeling like a compromise — real views, real creek, real Flatirons, on legs that are still learning.
Longmont
Old Town Longmont: Authentic Historic Living in Reach
Old Town Longmont is the authentic, in-band version of walkable historic living: an 1870s grid around a working Main Street where the walkability was never designed, just never lost. Genuine old homes and a lighter historic layer than Boulder's, at a Longmont price.
Local Guide
Boulder Attractions
Boulder is known for the Flatirons, but the city has a whole second life indoors and downtown: a pedestrian mall born of the 1859 gold rush, one of the region's most advanced planetariums, and a stadium where the BOLDERBoulder finishes.
Local Guide
Our Top Favorite, More Challenging Hikes, in Boulder
When the easy trails stop feeling like enough, these are the Boulder hikes worth the climb: steeper, longer, and honest about what each one asks of you before you start up it.
Boulder
Mapleton Hill, Boulder: Owning in a Historic District
Mapleton Hill is Boulder's oldest neighborhood and a locally designated historic landmark district, so the city's Landmarks Board reviews exterior changes and demolition. You can't redevelop the lot, and that legal permanence, not just the Victorian streetscape, is what you're buying.
Seller Guide
Seller Net Proceeds in Colorado: What You Actually Net
Your seller net proceeds in Colorado are your sale price minus your loan payoff, roughly 7-9% in selling costs, prorated taxes and HOA dues, any concessions, and possible capital-gains tax. The gap between price and check is often tens of thousands, so build an honest net sheet before you list.
Longmont
Fox Hill, Longmont: The Golf-Course Premium You Don't Own
In Fox Hill the premium buys a golf-course view, not the course. It's private, for-profit land that foreclosed once, the 'included' membership is a one-year social comp with golf billed separately, and 'Fox Hill' now blends new attached flats with the original course homes. Here's how to read it.
Buyer Guide
How to Make an Offer in Boulder: The Terms That Win the House
Price gets your Boulder offer noticed; the terms get you the house and protect you if you win. A strong offer means choosing, on purpose, which non-price levers to spend (earnest money, appraisal gap, financing, inspection, timing, contingencies) and which to hold. Here's the anatomy.
Boulder
Living in Newlands, Boulder: The Money Buys the Dirt
Newlands is brand-halo Boulder, mostly above a move-up budget for a detached home. The in-band play is narrow: the last un-renovated bungalow on a premium block. But here the money buys the dirt, not the house, so the pop-top that pays in Table Mesa strands your cash instead.
Loveland
Lake Loveland: The Lakefront You Don't Control
Lake Loveland is the corridor's one established, in-town lakefront, and the premium pays for mature stock with no metro-district carry. But the lake is a private irrigation reservoir its owner drains to roughly 40 percent every fall, and lake access is a title question, not a given.
Longmont
Prospect New Town, Longmont: You're Buying a Design Regime, Not a Lot
In Prospect New Town you aren't buying a house on a lot, you're buying into a designed, covenant-governed New Urbanist community: walkability, bold architecture and a short walk to shops, in exchange for small lots, strict design rules and an HOA. Here's how to tell if that trade is yours.
Loveland
Centerra, Loveland: The Toll You Pay Three Ways
Centerra isn't a neighborhood, it's McWhinney's integrated shopping-and-living machine, and it tolls a move-up buyer three ways: a metro-district mill on the tax bill, a 1.25% retail PIF on every receipt at its own shops, and the urban-renewal financing beneath both.
Move-Up Guide
HELOC vs Cash-Out Refi vs Bridge Loan: Funding Your Boulder Move-Up
A HELOC, a cash-out refi, and a bridge loan can each turn your current-home equity into a down payment before you sell. They are not interchangeable: each has a different cost, timeline, and fatal flaw. Here is how a Boulder move-up buyer picks the right one in time.
Loveland
Mariana Butte, Loveland: The Move-Up Buyer's Guide
Mariana Butte is a west-Loveland golf community by the city's public course and the foothills. It's really three products under one name, and the frontage, view, or open-space edge you pay a premium for sets your hazard load: wildfire on the foothills lots, flood on the golf and river lots.
Buyer Guide
Your Colorado Buyer Agency Agreement, Explained (2026)
In Colorado you'll sign a written buyer agency agreement before touring a home, under the 2024 NAR settlement. Since August 2026 state law separately requires one before your broker does licensed work. It isn't a leash: it's a negotiable term sheet, and the terms are yours to set.
Seller Guide
Capital Gains on a Colorado Home Sale: Know Your Basis
A married couple who meets the tests can exclude up to $500,000 of gain on a home sale, and a single filer $250,000. Colorado taxes whatever is left as ordinary income, with no home-sale break of its own. On a long-held Boulder home, that ceiling is closer than most owners think.
Comparison Guide
Longmont vs. Loveland for a Move-Up Home: Same Money, Two Different Problems
Longmont and Loveland cost about the same in the move-up band, but each hands you a different problem: in Longmont it's jurisdiction (city, unincorporated Boulder County, or Weld County); in Loveland it's insurability (WUI wildfire and flood-mapped ground). Pick the one you'd rather own.
Boulder
North Boulder Neighborhood Guide: Land, or a Finished Home?
In North Boulder an $800K–$1.5M budget usually isn't buying a house, it's buying a side of the redevelopment fork: an original 1950s–70s ranch that's really a lot with a teardown candidate on it, or someone's finished scrape-and-rebuild at a premium. That's the real decision.
Buyer Guide
Home Inspection in Boulder County: The Local Hazards That Decide the Deal
The generic national inspection checklist misses what actually kills a Boulder County deal. Here are the five local hazards a good inspection has to cover, how to test each one, roughly what a fix costs, and when it's a walk-away versus a credit.
Berthoud
TPC Colorado, Berthoud: The Golf-Club Carry to Price
At Heron Lakes / TPC Colorado, a golf-community lot carries three obligations, not one: the negotiable price, the fixed metro-district mill, and a private PGA-TOUR golf club whose optional dues sit on neither the tax bill nor the HOA statement. Total the stack before you tour.
Move-Up Guide
How to Win a Contingent Offer in Boulder County
You love the next house, but your own home hasn't sold. A contingent offer can still win. The trick is to make it about the seller's peace of mind, not your price. Here are the levers a good move-up agent actually pulls.
Relocation Guide
Relocating to Boulder for a CU Job: A Timing Guide
A CU job is the one Boulder relocation where the offer letter sets both your move-in date and your budget, and both work against you. So the first smart housing move isn't where to buy. It's when.
Relocation Guide
Relocating to Longmont for IBM: Optimize on Value
Relocating for IBM is the rare Boulder-area move where you're not chained to a campus: the old IBM Boulder site is mostly a Kyndryl data center now, and most roles are hybrid. So you optimize on value instead of commute, and on value the honest answer is Longmont.
Relocation Guide
Moving to Louisville for Medtronic: Value, and the Fire
Medtronic's Colorado jobs aren't in Boulder proper. They're a three-campus cluster along US-36, and the move-up band lives in the east value belt: Louisville, Superior, Lafayette, Erie. But two of those towns sit on the Marshall Fire burn scar, so insurance, not price, is the real gate.
Lyons
Living in Lyons, Colorado, Where No Median Holds Up
Try to look up what a home in Lyons costs and you'll get four different answers hundreds of thousands of dollars apart. There's a reason: Lyons is too small and too varied to have a usable median. Here's how you actually price a house here.
Berthoud
Living in Berthoud, Colorado? The Mill Levy Decides
Most new builds in Berthoud's move-up band sit inside a metro district, and its debt mill levy — not the sticker — decides the deal. But it turns on the parcel's tax area, not the age of the street: four in ten Berthoud parcels pay no district mill.
Loveland
What Moving to Loveland, Colorado Actually Costs You
In Loveland's move-up band, the west-side foothills and canyon-mouth homes your dollar reaches are the same homes wildfire and flood insurers have turned hardest to cover. Underwrite the insurance before you write the offer.
Longmont
Moving to Longmont, Colorado: Two Counties, One Town
Longmont sits in two counties, and some Longmont-addressed homes aren't in the city at all. Before you shop, know which Longmont a listing is really in. It decides your well, your septic, and your internet.
Boulder
Living in Boulder, Colorado: Pick Your Boulder First
The median single-family home in Boulder sold for $1,275,000 across 2025, and the city adds almost no new houses: a scrape replaces, it doesn't add. So the real decision is which of the three Boulders you can buy, and that comes before any house.
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