Selling
Seller Guide
Pre-Listing Inspection in Colorado: What It Buys a Seller
Colorado's Seller's Property Disclosure puts no duty on you to inspect, but what you already know goes on it whether you inspect or not, and a report you commission joins that. A pre-listing inspection won't replace the buyer's or move their dates. It buys time to repair or price what it finds.
POV Note
What a 'Balanced' Housing Market Actually Measures
The buyer's-or-seller's label comes from months of supply, which measures how quickly today's listings would sell, not prices. Through August 2026, Boulder, Longmont and Loveland all tightened on supply and none of their year-to-date medians rose. Read speed off supply and price off the solds.
Answer Brief
Colorado Wildfire Risk Score Appeal: What Survives the Sale
Colorado insurers that price on wildfire risk owe you a score, in notices from October 1, 2026, and an appeal backed by mitigation evidence. Before you sell: the score belongs to your insurer's model, and the statute says so. What a buyer can use is proof of the work done on the house.
Seller Guide
Selling a Home With an Unpermitted Basement in Colorado
Colorado's disclosure form asks about permitted and unpermitted work on two different lines. For a finished basement the costly question is the permit: which building department reviews it, against which code, and what a permit does and doesn't change at appraisal.
Relocation Guide
Your Employer Buys Your Old House: BVO vs GBO, Colorado
The relocation benefit is not help selling your house. It is an offer to buy it, with a contract of sale and a deed you sign. A guaranteed buyout (GBO) is a floor and a calendar. A buyer value option (BVO) is neither: no appraisal is ordered, and nothing is owed until an outside buyer appears.
POV Note
Your List Price Is Graded Twice
You set one number and it gets read against the same sold comparables twice, weeks apart, by two people Colorado will not let be the same person. Only the second reading works to a written method, and the seller cannot commission it, choose who performs it, or claim a right to read it.
Seller Guide
Off-Market and Delayed Marketing: Selling in Boulder County
Three options sellers ask for as quiet, three answers to one question: who can see the house. IRES has a seller form for one, the office exclusive: filed with the MLS, not disseminated to other brokers. A delayed marketing listing stays in the MLS. Page 4 of the contract decides the rest.
Answer Brief
Colorado's 2% Nonresident Withholding on a Home Sale
Colorado's 2 percent nonresident withholding is not decided by where you live. It is triggered by the address on two documents in your closing file. Nothing is withheld at $100,000 or less, and it comes off when one of five affirmations on form DR 1083 applies.
Answer Brief
Does the Ditch Share Come With the House?
Water rights run with the land, everybody says. A mutual ditch company share is personal property, and Colorado hands the transfer rules to each company's own bylaws, so two Front Range companies answer it in opposite ways. The standard contract reflects that with a blank and no default rule.