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Homes for sale near Fruita Monument High School, CO

Real Estate Agent with Cherry Creek Properties

June 18, 2014 09:25 AM

Homes for sale near Fruita Monument High School, CO represent a good cross section of Grand Valley housing in general.

Fruita Monument High School, CO is one of the larger high schools in Mesa County, School District 51 with a 2013-14 enrollment of 1284 students in three grades, 10^th through 12^th. One of the interesting facts about this school is that the student to teacher ratio is a reasonable 22:1. For other details about the school I will encourage you to visit their web site.

Using current numbers and values gives a representative sample of what the Homes for sale near Fruita Monument High School are like. Speaking of the area: homes for sale near Fruita Monument High school, CO area span all or part of the neighborhoods and areas of Fruita, Redlands, Northwest Grand Junction, West Grand Junction, Loma, Mack and Glade Park.

Within those areas about 2/3 to ¾ of the homes total and homes for sale at any given time are ranch style homes.
While the detailed numbers will vary on any given day, there are a very small percentage of these homes under 1000 square feet.

About 65% of the homes are 1000-2000 square feet, 26% being 2001-3000 square feet and about 8% are larger than 3000 square feet.

Ranch style with 3 car garage

While there is not an age breakdown published anywhere, these properties in this area range in age from 1890 to new construction.

Prices vary almost as much, with homes for sale near Fruita Monument High School selling for as low as $80,000 and as high as $3.7 million. There are few at either of those extremes. About 50% of homes in this area sell for $120,000 to $250,000.

A search of western slope craigslist shows very few of these homes are advertised as being sold by owners near Fruita Monument High School. Choose yourself a local Realtor, pre-qualify for a mortgage loan and buy the house soon. From the time a purchase offer is accepted to the date of closing is typically 30 to 45 days. The first day of classes in the 2014-15 school year for Fruita Monument High School is August 11^th.