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Real Estate Broker/Owner - New Paradigm Partners LLC - EB #1326335
General information about the Northern Colorado real estate market, as well as regularly updated market statistics and analysis for each Northern Colorado community.

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2017 

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This is a very hard post to write. For the last year or so, Mary and I have been struggling with a persistent and troubling problem. We were experiencing a steady decline in our website traffic, and a consequent drop in leads showing up from our blogging. For the entire time we have been on AR, w...
11/29/2017
Welcome to the Special Long Holiday Weekend Edition of the Grab Bag, where we deal with the issue of wasting a bunch of perfectly good blogging days on sloth, gluttony and yes, computer games, and are henceforth caught with nothing to offer other than old tweets pulled from the cobwebbed archives...
11/26/2017
Loveland CO has been a hot real estate market for several years. As the regional economy has prospered, population and employment have experienced significant growth, while housing availability has not kept pace. The result has been a case study in the basic economic concept of supply vs. demand....
11/25/2017
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This is me today. Earlier in the week, fed up with my lack of interest in cooking a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, Mary seized control of the festivities. I'm the prime rib, leg of lamb, or roast duck guy, and it had been years since we had a turkey and did anything like a normal Thanksgiving. ...
11/24/2017
I wasn't able to fully participate in Debbie's 12 Days Challenge because of the press of business, but I didn't want to let the season pass without expressing my deep thankfulness for everything life has gifted me, which has basically been a wonderful ride on an insane roller coaster in an amusem...
11/23/2017
This is the November 2017 Real Estate Market Report for Mariana Butte Loveland CO Homes for Sale The Mariana Butte real estate market has consistently been one of Loveland's most active neighborhoods. Built around an award-winning public golf course and a lovely southwest Loveland setting with wo...
11/22/2017
This is the November 2017 Real Estate Market Report for Alford Meadows Loveland CO Homes for Sale Alford Meadows has been a consistently popular neighborhood for buyers looking for new or newer construction, a convenient northwest Loveland location with good access to schools, shopping and entert...
11/21/2017
This is the November 2017 Real Estate Market Update for Loveland CO New Homes for Sale New home construction activity has been running at high levels in the Loveland area for several years now, and builders are offering a nice inventory of homes to choose from, as well as the opportunity to selec...
11/20/2017
We all have those special moments that we look forward to as a refuge against the noise and hustle of daily life, when we can give some thought to our hopes and our plans, gather our resources and wits, and prepare to face the challenges of the coming day. This is Lulu's, and you can find her her...
11/19/2017
This is the November 2017 Real Estate Market Update for Loveland CO Luxury Homes for Sale Luxury homes are special - they tend to be bigger and situated on larger lots in neighborhoods of similar homes; they are most often a custom design; and they offer high quality fixtures and finishes, top-of...
11/18/2017