Terri and Derek Zukosky were committed to Denver and its center-city neighborhoods: They’d migrated from Cheesman to Wash Park and then to Cory Merrill, and along the way did a scrape-and-build house on one of its urban sites.

Toll Brothers’ Cynthia Considine showed off her ‘Bella’ model after it opened last August. She’s taken four reservations since Jan. 1 on the homes, wrapped by trails and amenities.

Now, improbably, the couple is moving ten miles west of Wash Park to Solterra, near Green Mountain and Red Rocks Park, where Toll Brothers is finishing off a new home for them. more »

During the 1930s, when the old Fort Collins Metropolitan Railway trolley ran along Mountain Avenue’s center tree lawn between downtown and the fairgrounds, there was a small, Queen-Anne styled bungalow at 1516 W. Mountain.

Doug Means with Coldwell Banker’s Drake office in Fort Collins shows a 4-bedroom custom that retains some styling showed by its predecessor bungalow.

The trolley line shut down in the 1950s…but 30 years later volunteers got it running again (the fairgrounds became City Park Lake and pool); and on weekend afternoons May to September you can catch the trolley from downtown, past that house — now transformed into a 4,621-square-foot custom that’s on view by appointment. more »

“People don’t want projects; they don’t have time for them these days,” says Hilltop expert Denice Reich – who can show you a 1956 six-bedroom brick colonial, loads of Old World charm, that’s already been completely redone, top-to-bottom, at Cedar and Birch, three blocks south of Cranmer Park.

Brick colonial at 4400 E. Cedar in Hilltop.

Reich, listed as the 89th-top-selling RE/MAX agent in the entire world last year (out of 90,000 agents!), says that Hilltop’s market is warming up this fall. more »