Lane Hornung's (coloradohomefinder) Blog

Many prospective home buyers believe if they want to get the deal of a lifetime in this market they need to focus on distressed properties, such as foreclosures or short sales, in which the lender accepts less than the mortgage amount. By focusing on just distressed properties, these buyers are m...

I was recently interviewed for an article by John Rebchook of InsideRealEstateNews.com for a story titled: "Internet Complements Agents."   At my companies COhomefinder.com and 8z Real Estate we provide the best internet technologies for our Colorado real estate clients, but that service doesn't ...

Even if you may not have as much sidewalk in Crest View in North Boulder, snow days just may make you tingle.  Not only do you have to leave for work early with the snow, but also shovel your driveway, and any sidewalks.  On our site, 8z.com we recently had an article for Boulder home owners on a...

Taking a look at the Denver Metro's December 2010 statistics and comparing them, December numbers looked pretty good. Closed sales were up over November and slightly up year-over-year. There were 3,024 home closings in December 2010, a 13.4% increase from the 2,666 in November 2010 and a 2.2 perc...

It's widely known that real estate buyers and sellers hesitate starting a transaction during the holiday season.  The new year is now past us, leaving the real estate market gearing up for spring. Now is the time to watch listings as they are added each day on my website COhomefinder.com. There w...

For many home buyers the presence of an HOA will either draw them in or deter them from looking at homes in a particular neighborhood.  But it's important to also understand that there is a difference between Home Owners Associations and Neighborhood Associations.  If you might be descriminating ...

Today Real Estate writer John Rebchook of Inside Real Estate News published an article about the Denver real estate market and the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. While across the board, the metrics did not show well for real estate across the country - but there was a glimmer in the Denver ma...

December cheer for the Denver market If you want to be a housing Grinch, there's plenty of doom-and-gloom clouding the Denver-area and national housing markets. But given that this is the holiday season, John Rebchook, the writer of Inside Real Estate News talked with me about the positive side o...

Rental home market surging The Denver-area home rental market, which fell to a 2.9 percent vacancy rate – the lowest third-quarter rate on record – could see vacancies decline more and rents increase.Experts today said that while housing rents have not kept pace with the dropping vacancy rates, t...

Hornung: A windshield-view of the market Lane Hornung, president and co-founder of 8z Real Estate. Lane Hornung, being a statistical guy, typically likes to look at real estate statistics on a year-over-year basis, rather than by consecutive months. After all, month-to-month data can be influence...