When thinking about real estate markets, the tendency is to compare.  And I’m not talking about the obvious.  I’m referring to practically everything conceivable, ranging from actual sold properties to the median values about the unimaginable. Sometimes it feels like hindsight analysis is what we live by these days.  Nonetheless, hindsight analysis will get you [...]

WOW!  Despite the dismal news we hear daily, ranging from earthquakes to tsunamis to radioactive fallout to Middle Eastern uprisings to rising oil prices to wars to unemployment to the devaluation of the dollar bill to outsourcing of jobs to tragedy upon tragedy – can I stop here?  The fact remains.  People are developing a [...]

The numbers are out for the activity in the Colorado Springs Real Estate market for February 2011. From what I’ve gathered, here’s my take on the temperature of the market: Total active listings are essentially unchanged from last February to February this year, 4,361 and 4,315, respectively. The inventory is healthy, but not excessive, in [...]