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The Best Time to Sell a House in Colorado Springs, by the Numbers
FeaturedSeptember 23, 2026
The best time to sell a house in Colorado Springs is April or May: spring listings sell in about 6 days, at the highest median price and with the fewest seller concessions. Based on ~175,000 MLS sales, 2015-2025.
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What's Wrong with the Market in One Image
FeaturedApril 19, 2026
The connection between M2 money supply and housing costs in Colorado Springs - one chart that explains why homes cost what they do, and where the market is heading.
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20 years of seller concession data from 265,000+ Colorado Springs transactions. How concessions track with market cycles, rates, and loan types.
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When does M2 money supply stop affecting Colorado Springs housing prices? A data-driven analysis of the transmission mechanism and what breaks it.
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Are sellers really outnumbering buyers in Colorado Springs? A data-driven look at absorption rates, pending ratios, and what the buyer-to-seller balance actually looks like.
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Rates, Rents, and Prices: What Moves the Colorado Springs Market
October 14, 2026
Three forces move the Colorado Springs housing market: rents, rates, and prices. How they interact, why one point of rate is worth 43,000 dollars of price, and what actually revives sales.
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Has the Correction Happened Already?
October 14, 2026
Priced against rent, Colorado Springs homes are near their 20-year average and cheaper than at the 2022 peak. The price-to-rent ratio, and what it signals.
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Rent vs. the Cost to Own in Colorado Springs
October 14, 2026
For most of the 2010s, owning the median Colorado Springs home cost about what renting did, and sometimes less. Since 2022 it costs 36 to 67 percent more. Twenty years of data.
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What Would It Take to Get the Colorado Springs Market Moving Again?
October 14, 2026
A $100,000 price cut at today's rates would not restore Colorado Springs sales velocity. Here is where price or rates would actually have to land, by the numbers.
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Are Colorado Sellers Cracking? The Colorado Springs Numbers
October 14, 2026
Colorado leads the nation in sellers listing below what they paid. Here are the Colorado Springs numbers, including who is actually underwater, by purchase year.
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Does Colorado Springs Need More Housing, or More Affordable Housing?
October 03, 2026
The Colorado Springs housing shortage is real, but the data shows it is an affordability gap, not a raw-numbers gap: months of supply by price band, the income-to-price gap, and why building market-rate homes at a $460K average will not close it.
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What Is a Crash in Colorado Springs?
September 28, 2026
Someone asked what a housing crash looks like in Colorado Springs. In 30 years, prices have fallen once, by about 12%. What actually crashes here is volume and credit, not price. The real definition, in the data.
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What 8% Mortgage Rates Would Do to Colorado Springs
September 25, 2026
With the 30-year at 7.03%, an 8% rate would add about $275 a month on the median Colorado Springs home and price the median buyer out on paper. What 8% would really do to local sales volume, days on market, and prices, in the numbers.
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Why Colorado Springs Home Prices Exploded (It Was the Money Supply)
September 24, 2026
Why did Colorado Springs home prices explode since 2020? Our data shows the median sale price tracked the U.S. money supply almost exactly. It was a monetary event, not just a shortage, and prices went flat the moment the money did.
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