Tag: neighborhoods
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GUEST OPINION: Community center is a vital neighborhood resource
By Brian Kates Meadows Park Community Center is a home away from home, a “third place” and has been first place in the lives of generations and thousands upon thousands of people since opening its doors in 1982. That this $775k/year facility (0.17% of $438M 2025 General Fund budget) is scheduled for permanent closure on…
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Buyer’s market demands new strategies
For years, home sellers were told to make sure their properties were in good condition before they stuck a for-sale sign in their front lawn. These days, if sellers worry only about paint, carpet and repairs, they might as well keep the for-sale sign in the garage. There’s a new dynamic in today’s housing market…
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Down but not out
For-sale signs summed up the state of the Pikes Peak region’s housing market last year: “Price reduced” was the simple message several signs carried. A national recession, sagging consumer confidence, thousands of area job losses and record numbers of local foreclosures combined to drive down single-family home prices in two-thirds of Colorado Springs and El…
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Widespread distress
Kings Deer, in northern El Paso County and east of Monument, has some of the Pikes Peak region’s nicest homes. Stratmoor Valley, just beyond Colorado Springs’ south edge and east of Fort Carson, has some of the area’s cheapest housing. Last year, however, Kings Deer and Stratmoor Valley had something in common: Foreclosures and short…
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Default deluge
Foreclosures and short sales weren’t the only reasons home prices fell in dozens of Colorado Springs-area neighborhoods last year. But they were the biggest reasons, several local real estate experts say. In The Gazette’s fourth annual analysis of El Paso County Assessor’s Office records and home prices in the area, 52 of the county’s 80…