The Principal Team

Mortgage rates climbed back above 6% through most of March, the Iran conflict rattled financial markets, and new listings jumped nearly 20% from February. Buyers showed up anyway. Pending sales surged 30.69% month-over-month, closed transactions rose 28.12%, and average days in MLS dropped from 59 to 50 — a 15% decline in a single month.

Showing activity in Colorado is tracking above the pace of 2023, 2024, and 2025 at this point in the year. Buyers are getting off the couch. They’re touring homes. They’re just not making offers.

Closings surged 30% from January — but year-over-year volume is still down nearly 7%, a reminder that seasonal momentum and market health are two different things.

Who can actually afford to buy real estate in Metro Denver? Let’s find out.

It’s probably controversial for real estate agents to say this, but the truth is that Denver’s housing market isn’t financially unstable—it’s structurally inequitable. Here’s why.

If you woke up Wednesday expecting cheaper mortgages after the Federal Reserve’s latest rate cut, you weren’t alone. And if you checked mortgage rates Thursday morning only to spit out your coffee, you definitely weren’t alone. Here’s what happened and why.

My buyer clients want to see a home this weekend, so I took a look at the history of the home and it stopped me in my tracks. It’s a single-family home in Denver and its journey over the past four years tells the story of Denver’s market better than any statistics I could share.