Blog Posts From April 2025

Oct 30, 2026 • 7 min read

Downtown Denver Office Conversions: Which Housing Projects Are Actually Moving Forward?

Editorial illustration of a fictional downtown Denver streetscape with office towers, residential windows and street-level storefronts. No actual building or conversion project is depicted.Downtown Denver is preparing for a future with more residents and fewer buildings devoted entirely to offices.But one of the more revealing developments this October involves an office building that was suppose

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Apr 20, 2025 7 min read

Concrete Lifting for Colorado Driveways and Sidewalks

Concrete lifting raises a sunken driveway, sidewalk, or patio slab back to level by injecting material underneath it, instead of demolishing and pouring new concrete. On the Front Range, where expansive clay soil and freeze-thaw cycles sink and tilt slabs within a few years of a new pour, lifting costs a fraction of replacement and returns the surface to use the same day.Much of the Front Range s

Apr 20, 2025 7 min read

Hydroseeding a New Colorado Lawn: A Homeowner's Guide

Hydroseeding is the fastest, least expensive way to establish a lawn on a new-build lot in Colorado, and the sequence matters more here than almost anywhere else in the country. Front Range clay soil, low humidity, intense UV at altitude and a hail season that runs spring through September all shape when and how a homeowner should schedule the work.Hydroseeding sprays a slurry of seed, mulch, wat

Apr 18, 2025 10 min read

7 Risks of Buying a Colorado Home Without Proper Checks

Buying a Colorado home without the seven checks below puts $8,000 to $50,000 of repairs on the buyer after closing, and every one of those checks costs under $800 before closing. The Colorado Contract to Buy and Sell Real Estate gives the buyer dated deadlines to run each check and walk away with the earnest money if the result is bad. Miss a deadline and the check still happens, but the buyer pa

Apr 17, 2025 7 min read

6 HOA Red Flags Front Range Buyers Should Watch For

Most homes for sale across the Front Range belong to an HOA, and the difference between a well-run one and a troubled one shows up long before closing, in the documents the association is willing to hand over. Six red flags separate a Colorado HOA worth buying into from one that will cost a homeowner years of frustration.A well-run Colorado HOA gives an owner or prospective buyer access to meetin

Apr 17, 2025 6 min read

Budget-Friendly Home Decor Ideas for Colorado Homes

A Front Range home does not need a full remodel to look ready for listing photos or feel finished after move-in. A few hundred dollars spent on the right pieces, in the right rooms, changes how a home reads to buyers in Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, Littleton, Centennial, Colorado Springs and Fort Collins. The trick is spending it on items that hold up in Colorado's climate instead of items that look

Apr 16, 2025 7 min read

5 First-Time Home Buyer Mistakes in Colorado, With the Fixes

Colorado first-time buyers make the same five mistakes: they tour homes before a pre-approval, they drain savings for a down payment when CHFA assistance exists, they budget on the list price instead of the full Front Range payment, they waive inspections to win, and they shop on wants instead of needs. Each one has a fix, and The Kenna Group applies all five before a first-time buyer writes an o

Apr 16, 2025 7 min read

How Buying a Home Works in Colorado Now

Buying a home in Colorado in 2026 runs on four pieces of technology: listings that reach your phone from the MLS within minutes, contracts on Colorado Real Estate Commission forms signed electronically, 3D tours that replace the first showing, and pricing reports built on sold data instead of a website's guess. Three steps still need a live person: the offer strategy, the inspection objection, an

Apr 16, 2025 6 min read

Colorado Homeowners Insurance: What It Covers

Colorado homeowners insurance covers far more than fire damage to the structure — and Colorado's hail, wildfire, and freeze-thaw conditions make the fine print matter more here than in most states. Here is what a standard policy actually covers, what it excludes in most cases, and where Front Range homeowners can trim the bill.A standard policy bundles four coverages: the dwelling itself, other s

Apr 16, 2025 6 min read

Luxury Garage Door Trends for Colorado High-End Homes

Luxury garage doors on the Front Range in 2026 do three things at once: read as custom design in listing photos, carry a UL 2218 Class 4 hail rating, and run on the same smart system as the rest of the house. Doors that skip the hail rating for the sake of a glass-panel look cost their owners a claim the first bad storm season.Four trends show up across Cherry Hills Village, Castle Pines, Greenwo

Apr 15, 2025 6 min read

What Makes Water Damage Risk Unique in Colorado

Water damage in a Colorado home comes from a different set of causes than it does almost anywhere else in the country: freeze-thaw cycles that burst a pipe overnight, hailstorms that open a roof to the next rain, expansive soil that cracks a foundation, and a monsoon-season downpour that overwhelms a storm drain in twenty minutes. Each cause has its own prevention step and its own repair cost.A c