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Fire-Crafted Foods that Ignite! Your Senses + Satisfy Your Soul

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Denver’s Ballpark area welcomes its newest addition to the neighborhood, Ignite! a relaxed urban gastro pub that offers fire crafted food and creative libations. With alfresco dining during the summer months and cozy, relaxed dining during the winter months, you’re going to love becoming one of our neighborhood regulars!

Our menu focuses on seasonally changing, local ingredients to make up a complex offering of comfort foods that are fire-inspired and wood oven-roasted. We’re sure you’ll find something delicious to enjoy from our casserole dishes, individual cast iron fire-pots, hand-crafted burgers, authentic Neapolitan pizzas, and over a dozen sharing plates and fresh market greens.

The libations are just as abundant and complex as its food menu with over 100 wines, 50 beers and masterfully mixed martinis and cocktails.

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Positive Signs Abound for Housing

CoreLogic reports higher home prices in Denver area

Denver Business Journal by Dennis Huspeni

Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 7:08am MDT

 

Home prices in metro Denver continued the climb upwards in March, beating both the state and national numbers, according to the most recent home price index (HPI) report from CoreLogic released Tuesday.

In the Denver-Aurora-Broomfield area, the HPI increased by 3.5 percent from March 2011. That index included sales of distressed properties. That HPI also showed a greater increase than February’s year-over-year increase of 1.6 percent for all sales, including distressed — which are short sales and real estate owned (REO) transactions.

The metro Denver area’s index without distressed properties increased 2.3 percent in March, compared to the same month a year ago.

Lane Hornung, president and founder of 8z Real Estate and COhomefinder.com, said CoreLogic’s rising HPI for Denver homes mirrors local data.

“This market is moving and shifting faster than most of us would have expected,” Hornung said. “This shift to a seller’s market is taking Realtors by surprise. … No matter what lens you look through, or what methodology you use, all the indicators are showing appreciation that’s pretty strong.”

While the CoreLogic HPI is a lagging indicator, it closely matches what local data sources have reported, including Metrolist Inc.’s April report, which showed average home sale prices up 6 percent month-over-month.

Like almost every other residential broker interviewed in recent weeks, Hornung said there’s not enough inventory of homes for sale.

“There are plenty of buyers who want to buy and are capable of it, but have not been able to because of this acute shortage of product,” he said.

CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX) data includes resales of single-family houses and condos. The Santa Ana, Calif.-based company provides consumer, financial and property information and analysis to business and government.

Colorado’s HPI grew 3 percent in March over March 2011. For properties excluding distressed sales, the index improved 2.9 percent year over year.

Hornung predicted prices will continue to increase, but not at the pace of the last two months.

“Everyone’s seen the acceleration of appreciation in the last four to six weeks as the inventory shortage has become even more acute,” Hornung said. “While I don’t think it will continue at that pace, it will hold the ground it’s gained.”

Nationally, the HPI fell 0.6 percent in March from 12 months ago. But it increased by 0.6 percent from February’s HPI, the first month-over-month increase since July 2011, the CoreLogic report states. Both of those HPIs included distressed sales.

“This spring the housing market is responding to an improving balance between real estate supply and demand, which is causing stabilization in house prices,” Mark Fleming, CoreLogic’s chief economist, said in a news release. “Although this has been the case in each of the last two years, the difference this year is that stabilization is occurring without the support of tax credits and in spite of a declining share of REO sales.”

The CoreLogic report is one of several popular measures of home prices.

http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2012/05/08/corelogic-reports-higher-home-prices.html

New advice from the trenches on buying a home: Look early. Think fast. Hone your quick-draw skills with the checkbook.

Metro Denver’s real estate market, not long ago a buyer’s domain, suddenly has shifted to a seller’s paradise, at least in some neighborhoods and price ranges.

Realtors’ offices are rife with fresh anecdotes of sellers happily cherry-picking from multiple offers — some of them above the asking price.

How fast is the market moving? A new report shows that Denver is No. 2 in the nation for the shortest length of time that a home is listed before being sold — 33 days — far below the national median of 89 days.

Until recently, prospective buyer Patty Kupfer had viewed shopping for a home as a weekend diversion. You know, tell your broker that you’re available, say, from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday.

Hah.

“There’s no such thing anymore as a weekend home tour,” Kupfer said this week. “Because if you wait till the weekend, nothing’s going to be there. If you’re just looking casually, you’re not really in the market.”

Kupfer, managing director of a non-profit immigration-reform organization, said she has adjusted her approach in the face of vigorous competition from other buyers.

“Every house I’ve looked at has gone under contract within 48 hours,” she said. “This has forced me to be more serious about it. The very next house that seems like a good fit, we’re going to visit it that very day (it’s first listed).”

In recent months, buyer demand has surged and the number of homes for sale in metro Denver has dropped sharply.

Unsold homes on the market totaled 10,325 at the end of March, a 42 percent drop from March 2011.

The result is that for some neighborhoods and some price ranges, homes are in short supply and selling fast.

In particularly high demand are homes priced from $250,000 to $400,000 and in central Denver neighborhoods such as Park Hill, Congress Park, Curtis Park, Mayfair and the Highlands, said Michelle Ackerman, Denver-area manager and broker for Redfin.

Even though metro Denver homes have shown only marginal price appreciation so far this year, realty analysts say strong demand and multiple offers could soon push values higher in lower to moderate price ranges.

One factor that makes price predictions difficult is foreclosures.

Lenders hold an estimated 1,650 foreclosed properties in metro Denver that haven’t been put on the market, according to data compiled by Redfin. As the market strengthens, more foreclosures will be listed for sale, which in turn could slow down price appreciation.

Sellers of homes listed for more than $500,000 generally aren’t enjoying the market heat.

“Once you move above $500K, inventory widens dramatically and prices are still down, and arguably falling,” Ackerman said.

Elsewhere, inventories are low and urgency among buyers is high.

Joshua Kurdys and Ileana Sadin, recent arrivals to Denver from State College, Pa., found the Denver market to be an exercise in frustration.

“You’d go out and see five or 10 houses, and the one house that was decent would be snatched up immediately” by other buyers, Kurdys said.

After several failed offers in central Denver neighborhoods, the couple decided to expand their geographic parameters, accelerate their pace and be willing to bid higher.

“It was very apparent that if we didn’t make an offer at very close to asking price, we weren’t going to get it,” Kurdys said.

The strategy worked. They recently targeted a newly listed home in Curtis Park, made a 9 a.m. appointment to see it and submitted an almost full-price offer the same day. They now have it under contract.

What can be a frustrating endeavor for buyers is a pleasant relief for sellers.

Connie Ulrich was anticipating the worst in attempting to sell her three-bedroom home in the Northbrook subdivision of Thornton.

But within a month of listing the home, she’d had 34 showings.

“We had so many showings, it was just insane,” she said. “I never expected it to be so busy.”

Listed at $254,000, the home now is under contact for $256,000.

“There is a shortage of good product,” said broker Rhonda Knop of Distinctive Properties. “If it’s priced right and shows well, it is selling.”

Steve Raabe: 303-954-1948 or sraabe@denverpost.com

April 19, 2012 5:00 PM

DENVER (CBS4)- Denver may be the exception to the downturn in the real estate market. A recent report puts the Mile High City at number two in the nation for the short length of time a house stays on the market.

The news is good for sellers but buyers can find the quick turnaround frustrating.

Homeowner Holly Wilcher sold her home in less than a month.

“We had an offer in seven days,” said Wilcher.

She received three offers on her house, all of which were more than what she paid for it a year ago.

That’s great news for sellers but buyers say there’s no time to wait if they find a house they like.

 “My real estate called their agent and he said they already had an offer so I had to put in an offer really fast and make in an aggressive offer because that would be contingent upon the other offer,” said potential home buyer Josh, who didn’t want to give his last name.

Scott Peterson is a real estate agent and hasn’t seen the market this tight since before the housing bubble burst.

“I’ve been in real estate for six years and I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Peterson. “The lack of inventory and large demand is really what’s driving up prices.”

Many of his recent listings have sold in two to seven days. The price range selling well can fit into a variety of income levels.

“I’ve got listings anywhere from $250,000 all the way up to $625,000,” said Peterson.

Peterson also said he’s out of sold signs and needs to buy more, “If there’s something you like you’ve got to jump on it.”

Advice For Buyers:

• Stalk the neighborhood real estate and drive through daily.
• Work with an agent who is intimately familiar with the neighborhood where you want to buy.
• If the house you like is better than others you’ve seen, consider making a full-price offer or even slightly above.
• Have your real estate agent call the listing agent to learn more about competition from other buyers.

Advice For Sellers:

• If you’re considering selling, list it immediately.
• Price it on the higher end but don’t get greedy.
• Work with an agent who knows and sells in your neighborhood.
• Know your competition and make the presentation of your home better.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/04/19/denver-exception-to-real-estate-downturn/

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