On the southern border of the Air Force Academy is a special neighborhood that we included in our luxury home tour yesterrday, called Woodmen Valley. The house was pretty special, and the 6 acres and horse facilities made it even more so. Woodmen Valley is unique because it is so close in, off the beaten [...]
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Today was RE/MAX Properties Luxury Home Professionals home tour. Our company has a great program for marketing luxury homes that includes special training for participating agents, as well as a monthly tour of luxury homes, alternated between the north and south areas. Today’s tour was of the southwest side of town, and we had listings [...] The Colorado Springs Business Journal published an article last week that I really liked, indicating that the recession is finally over in Colorado Springs. (See CSBJ Article) The main source of the information was Fred Crowley, a highly respected economist at UCCS, and I believe him based on all the data I can see. But [...] Despite improvements in the housing figures in Colorado Springs over the last several months, there is no doubt that the action is on the affordable end. 50% of Jul 2009 sales were under $199,500, but almost 69% were under $250,000. 82.9% percent were below the FHA loan limit of $325,000, and the 90th percentile (90% [...] We have LOTS of luxury homes for sale right now in Colorado Springs. Yesterday was our tour of luxury homes for the south end of town. Our office’s Luxury Home Professional designation requires us to attend a monthly tour, and there were some beauties this time! My favorites were of course the most expensive, [...]
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Colorado Springs is not immune from the craziness in the financial markets right now. Interest rates shot up to 7% yesterday along with the freefall of the stock market. But while all this was going on, gas prices fell almost 20 cents ($2.93!), and it was a gorgeous day, so I guess you have [...]
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The “kissing camels” is one of the more recognized rock formations at Garden of the Gods. It is also the name of an exclusive gated golf course neighborhood on the top of the Mesa, one of the few you can spend a million dollars in. There are lots of rock formations that look like [...]
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Colorado Springs has some really nice home available in the 600′s. I showed a bunch of them this week, and the one that the buyer selected was close to 5,000 square feet on 2.5 acres, 2 years old, and had WONDERFUL views.The ones they did not select were very, very nice as well. One was [...]
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The brand new Starbucks at Union and Briargate has to be the best Starbucks in all of Colorado Springs (I should know, I think I have visited them all … I love the large patio that looks out over the 100 acre park and up at Pikes Peak, give it 5 stars for view and [...]
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Tuesday was our Luxury Homes Professionals tour. Our company, RE/MAX Properties, is the largest real estate company in the Springs, and we are the leaders in most segments, luxury homes (those over $600,000) being among them. As a part of our Luxury Home Professional certification (which I have), we have special tours arranged every month [...] |
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