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HHD Newsletter - July 2010
 National Real Estate Outlook According to Realty Times -- Watch webcasts such as Market Changes, Preparing for Showings, Debt Management and much more. Click Here to Watch Realty Times.
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Denver Home Prices Up 4.1% From 2009, Case-Shiller Index Shows: For the fifth month in a row, home prices in the Denver area showed a year-over-year increase in March, and prices also rose slightly between February and March, according to the latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Prices Index. Read more here
Denver-area Short Sales of Homes Down 18% in Q1: Short sales of single-family homes dropped 18 percent from 2009’s fourth quarter to this year’s first quarter, according to a report released on May 24th by Re/Max Professionals of Denver. Read more here
Forbes: Denver is America's 18th Most Innovative City: Denver ranks 18th among 100 large U.S. cities on a new Forbes.com list of "America's most innovative cities." Forbes compiled its ranking on the basis of patents, venture capital investment, tech and science jobs, and "creative" jobs, all adjusted per capita. Read more here
Denver Has Nation’s 6th Best Quality of Life, Portfolio.com Reports: A report on the quality of life in 67 U.S. metro areas rates Denver sixth best in the nation. The report by G. Scott Thomas for Portfolio.com, a national business-news website affiliated with the Denver Business Journal, uses 20 different factors — most of them economic — to gauge quality of life in major cities. Read more here
Boulder Among Kiplinger's '10 Best Cities for the Next Decade': Boulder is named one of the "10 best cities for the next decade" in the July issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. Read more here
Kaiser to Open New Local Facility in Douglas County: One of the nation’s leading health care providers will bring 100 new jobs to Douglas County with the opening of a large-scale, multi-specialty medical office complex. Kaiser Permanente announced plans May 19 to open what will eventually be a 200,000-square-foot medical building just west of the Regional Transportation District’s Lincoln Light Rail station. Read more here
Vail, Beaver Creek to Host 2015 World Ski Championships: Vail and Beaver Creek will host the 2015 Alpine World Ski Championships, the sport's top event. It will be the first time in 16 years that the United States has hosted the event. Read more here
Outdoor Enthusiasts Flock to Cabela’s Grand Junction Opening: Hundreds of excited customers thronged through the doors of the new Cabela’s store at Mesa Mall on Thursday afternoon, May 24th. Read more here
Area Homebuilders Step in to Grab More of the Pikes Peak Market: A few years after several national builders bolted the Pikes Peak region because of financial woes or the nation’s economic downturn, a handful of homebuilders who are new to the area, or who until now have held a relatively low profile, have grabbed significant shares of the single-family market. Read more here
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