By Mark Samuelson

If you look at a map showing nothing more than how average home values have slipped over the last market year, you can get the mistaken idea that the nicer a neighborhood is, the shakier the prices are. But savvy Realtors will show you why that math doesn’t work, and why this is a pretty good time to be buying into some of those popular areas, particularly at the lower end.

Laurie and Michael Marcus of Coldwell Banker are showing this 4-bedroom remodeled 2-story, in Cherry Creek Vista east of the Denver Tech Center.

“The DTC area has held value very well,” says Coldwell Banker agent Michael Marcus, who along with wife Laurie Marcus will show you a 4-bedroom home in Cherry Creek Vista that has all of the things buyers like about the Tech Center, including the Cherry Creek Schools (Cottonwood Creek Elementary is a short walk; and so is the neighborhood’s pool and tennis center). more »

Twenty years ago, no one could have imagined how popular that downtown living would become——that people would pay for luxury homes walking distance from dining and entertainment, rather than from suburban attractions. Now, however, the same phenomenon seems to be recurring in a setting miles away.


“Morellos” ranch plan at One Cherry Lane in heart of the DTC.
“The new urban lifestyle has come full circle,” says Katharina Zoefelt, who counsels homebuyers at One Cherry Lane, a luxury single-family community by Esprit Homes in the heart of the Denver Tech Center, 11 freeway miles from the Denver urban core. “The attractions that once drew luxury buyers to the inner city are what they’re finding in the DTC now, but without any of the congestion that comes with real downtown living.” more »