Arvada CO Homes $500,000+ January 2012

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What this report tells you:  Arvada home sales at $500,000+ are sluggish in January.  Very sluggish.

Click this link to see Arvada Home Sales in the other price categories.

The following information was obtained from Metrolist on February 12, 2012.  This report includes only detached single family Arvada homes listed or sold for more than $500,000.  I’m using the term ‘distressed sales’ to refer to short sales and foreclosures.

• Currently, there are 37 Arvada homes in this price range for sale, one is a short sale, 1 is a foreclosure.  That's a 5% rate of distressed sales.

If you would like a private showing or any details of these Arvada homes for sale, please contact me at 720-353-8031.

• Currently, there are 9 Arvada homes in this price range under contract, none are short sales and one is a foreclosure. 11% rate of distressed sales.
• 8 Arvada homes sold in January 2012 at $500,000+. None were short sales, one was a foreclosure, for a 12% distressed rate.  Homes were on the market for  a median of 45 days before going under contract.

Arvada homes that sold last month for $500,000+ were found in the following neighborhoods:

Westwoods Ranch  (click this link for a neighborhood report.)

Trail Village    *    Saddle Brook

Oberon Acres    *    Meadow Ridge

Golden Gate Estates    *    Gardner Minor

• No Arvada homes sold for $500,000+ in January of 2010.
• 2010 saw 2 Arvada home sell during January for $500,000+.  111 median days on market. Neither of them were a short sale or foreclosure.

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I write posts on real estate issues and local events in the Denver metro area, especially those *communities between Denver and Boulder, as a public service. My hope is to give people an idea of the ‘flavor’ of our community, in case they’re new or moving to the Denver area.

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