Grok The Market

Real Estate Meets Insight: Turning Data Into Decisions – Rob Thompson, Realtor®, Iconic Colorado Properties, LLC

What’s Wrong with the Market in One Image

In a word, it’s unaffordable for many people. What you see here is the average monthly payment over the last 3 decades. Note the massive jump in 2020. That was the massive injection of funds into the economy. This is a bipartisan monetary policy. What we see here is the same payment trend mapped alongside […]

Three Measures of the Market 3 Oct 2024

Pricing your home matters. In the sixth week, homes have lost 4.27% of their list price in the Colorado Springs region. Who’s landing? When we look at the stats, remember we are only measuring who “landed”, who successfully sold. Nearly 49% of the market isn’t making it to the finish line right now. Seller’s concessions […]

PPAR Region State of the Market

We are closing for the month of March 2023 at an average of 501K with 46.86 days on the market. Homes are closing on the average at 3.1% below original list price. Sales are down 29.2% from this time last year and we have 1.53 months worth of homes on the market. Data extrapolated from […]

COS: YTD types of purchases

Here is the breakdown of the types of purchases year to date in the Pikes Peak Association of Realtors® (PPAR) region. Cash has made up 18% of purchases year to date, VA loans are 27%, FHA is 8% and conventional is 47%. Why does this matter? It informs buyers and sellers and helps them know […]