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Nov 8, 2026 • 5 min read

Who Buys a First Home Now: Singles, Couples and Friends in CO

KENNA NEWS DESK · FIRST-TIME BUYERS · NOVEMBER 8, 2026By The Kenna Group News Desk.Only 47% of first-time home buyers were married couples this year, while 25% were single women, 12% were single men and 11% were unmarried couples, the National Association of REALTORS reported. Buying a first home with a roommate or friend hit a 45-year high of 5%. For first-time home buyers in Denver, Aurora, Lit

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Mar 10, 2025 2 min read

5 Best Reasons to Move to Greeley, CO | Greeley Homes for Sale & Cost of Living

Greeley, Colorado, is quickly becoming one of the hottest places in Northern Colorado. Known for its affordability, strong job market, and scenic beauty, it's a top destination for buyers from across the Front Range. If you're considering a move, here are the five best reasons to call Greeley home.New to Greeley? Our Greeley living guide covers neighborhoods, parks, commutes and local favorites.O

Mar 10, 2025 6 min read

How Community Features Drive Home Values in Denver Metro

Two nearly identical houses a mile apart can sell for very different prices in metro Denver, and the difference isn't the house itself. It's what surrounds it: a trail system, a light rail stop, an HOA-maintained park, or a walkable stretch of shops. For anyone buying or selling on the Front Range, understanding which community features actually move price, and which ones are just nice-to-have, c

Mar 9, 2025 7 min read

Wall Art Ideas for Colorado Homes and Staging

Blank walls are one of the fastest things buyers notice on a showing, and one of the cheapest to fix. In the Front Range's dry, high-UV climate, wall art also needs a little more care than it would in a humid or low-light market: canvas, frames, and adhesives all react differently at 5,280 feet than they do at sea level.A single canvas looks small on the great-room walls common in newer Front Ran

Mar 8, 2025 8 min read

Seller Financing in Colorado: A Beginner's Guide for Sellers

Seller financing in Colorado means you sell the house, deed it to the buyer at closing, and take back a promissory note secured by a deed of trust recorded with the county clerk and recorder. The buyer pays you monthly instead of a bank, and if the payments stop, the county public trustee forecloses on your behalf. It works for a seller who owns the home free and clear, wants monthly income, and

Mar 7, 2025 7 min read

Vinyl vs. Wood Fencing: Which Adds More Colorado Value

Vinyl fencing wins on Front Range durability in most cases, resisting wind, freeze-thaw, and UV fading better than wood over a 20-plus year life, while wood costs less upfront and still shows up as a value-adding project in Bankrate's national rankings of home improvements. Which one boosts a specific Colorado property's value more depends on the HOA, the wind exposure of the lot, and how long th

Mar 7, 2025 6 min read

Does Wallpaper Help Sell a Colorado Home Faster?

Wallpaper can help a Colorado home sell faster when it is one accent wall in a room that photographs well, and it can slow a sale when it covers every wall in a dated pattern. The difference is scale and placement, not whether wallpaper belongs in a listing at all.One well-placed accent wall helps. Four walls of the same pattern, especially in a small room, reads as a renovation project to a buye

Mar 7, 2025 7 min read

Owning a Home in a Colorado Wildfire-Prone Area

Colorado's wildfire risk sits mostly along the foothills corridor, where the wildland-urban interface, the zone where homes meet open grass, scrub oak, and forest, runs from Colorado Springs north through Boulder County. Owning there is manageable with the right defensible space, materials, and insurance in place; skipping those steps is what turns a bad fire season into a total loss.The highest-

Mar 6, 2025 7 min read

Types of Homes and Ownership in Colorado: A Plain Guide

Colorado listings sort homes into two buckets first, detached and attached, and then into types: single-family, condo, townhome, paired home, patio home, 55+ community home, home with an ADU, multigenerational home, horse property, and land. Ownership is a separate question from the building: a townhome-shaped home is owned as a condominium in one subdivision and as a fee-simple lot in the next,

Mar 5, 2025 5 min read

Hiring an Affordable Roofing Contractor in Colorado

An affordable roofing contractor in Colorado is not the one with the lowest bid door-knocking your street after a hailstorm; it is a locally licensed, insured company that gives you a written scope, a fair price and a workmanship warranty you can actually use. Getting there takes three or four bids, a few license and insurance checks, and knowing the tricks storm-chaser crews use every hail seaso

Mar 5, 2025 6 min read

5 Things to Know Before Moving to Cherry Hills Village, CO

A home in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado lists from $2,000,000 to well over $10,000,000, sits on a minimum lot of roughly two and a half acres in most of the village, and has no sidewalks by design — the roads are shared with the equestrian trail network instead. Here is what to plan for if your search starts in Greenwich, Connecticut.Cherry Hills Village is one of the highest-value zip codes on