Author: Mark Samuelson
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Heading into holidays, shoplifting on the rise in Colorado, study says
Shoplifting and other forms of retail crime are seeing a sharp rise as Colorado heads into the holidays, according to a study. After falling from a recent-record 24,975 thefts reported in 2015 to around 18,000 in 2021, Colorado Bureau of Investigation data show a jump to more than 27,000 shoplifting crimes in 2024, according to…
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Heading into holidays, shoplifting on the rise in Colorado, study says
Shoplifting and other forms of retail crime are seeing a sharp rise as Colorado heads into the holidays, according to a study. After falling from a recent-record 24,975 thefts reported in 2015 to around 18,000 in 2021, Colorado Bureau of Investigation data show a jump to more than 27,000 shoplifting crimes in 2024, according to…
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Heading into holidays, shoplifting on the rise in Colorado, study says
Shoplifting and other forms of retail crime are seeing a sharp rise as Colorado heads into the holidays, according to a study. After falling from a recent-record 24,975 thefts reported in 2015 to around 18,000 in 2021, Colorado Bureau of Investigation data show a jump to more than 27,000 shoplifting crimes in 2024, according to…
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As slopes open, new town of Keystone jumps to a higher altitude real estate market
Anyone who can remember skiing Keystone while wearing a pair of jeans with a sack lunch in the jacket will raise an eyebrow at the new world the laid-back mountain has entered this new season. Fifty-five feet from the resort’s River Run gondola, a condo project set a sales price record for Summit County this…
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As market cools, Colorado home prices finally level out
Home prices in Colorado are finally behaving the way that market economics would predict they should, following two years of flat-to-declining real estate sales. They’ve leveled out. That’s according to the newest Market Trends report by the Colorado Association of Realtors. The report shows the median price of a single-family home in the state dropped…
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Builders say state’s push fails to create more affordable housing
What’s the secret sauce for making homes more affordable in Colorado? That’s the question that renters are asking when the median price of a home — now $550,000 — ranks Colorado as one of the least affordable places to live in the nation. Fourth or fifth from the bottom, according to some rankings. Colorado is…
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Ski resort markets show signs of life as first snows arrive
As the first real snow of the season arrives in Colorado’s mountain resorts, real estate agents in ski towns are reporting a better market this fall than the one that brokers down the hill along the Front Range are seeing. “There is healthy activity as both buyers and sellers adjust to new price realities,” said…
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Denver housing numbers head wrong way in latest report
Anyone waiting for the right moment to sell their home and move into something that better fits their current needs will find little cheer in the newest figures on the housing market, released Friday by the Denver Metro Association of Realtors. That Market Trends Report for the 11-county Denver metro area shows home inventory climbing…
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Denver Jews drawn into conversations about Gaza
As every year, Jews here in Colorado converged for family celebrations and flocked to their congregations for worship on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. They did so with events rapidly converging around the war in Gaza, as Israeli forces close in on Gaza City, three NATO nations declared recognition of a Palestinian state, and President…
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Colorado will help furloughed federal workers claim unemployment benefits
As civilian federal workers in Colorado wait for word as to whether they will be furloughed by a federal government shutdown, the state’s Department of Labor and Employment is reaching out to aid workers in claiming unemployment benefits. The agency, which made the announcement early Wednesday, reiterated that many federal workers could be eligible for…