We have broken down the sales figures to show results for both new and resale homes:

To really understand where the demand is for homes in Northern Colorado, we've also compiled a chart below, showing a breakdown of new construction sales, resale home sales, and the gap between the two.

Over the past 13 years, Northern Colorado home sales have seen a quite a dramatic shift. Back in the first six years of the graph (2000 – 2005) there were 18,584 new construction homes sold, an average of 3,097 per year. This compares to 43,282 resale homes with an average of 7,214 per year. For this six year period, new home construction accounted for 30% of total home sales. The blue column shows the dramatic drop of new home construction for the eight years since, from a low of 10.3% in 2010, improving to a projected 15% this year. During this eight years there have been 1,334 new homes sold per year compared to 3,097 in the previous six years.

To put another way, the sales of resale homes are now 40% ahead of the pace of the early 2000’s and new homes are more than 50% behind the sales level of ten years ago.

This gap needs to be closed. We will sell well over 9,000 resale homes this year compared to just 1,600 new homes. We think the 9,000 to 10,000 resale market is about the peak of available homes and we seriously need to build more new homes to meet the demand.

And speaking of demand, the net active listings of homes for sale now stands at 1,711 homes which is down 10% from last month. In addition to this figure there are 491 homes shown as under construction or ‘to be built’. Granted sales are slower at this time of year but the projected demand for the next six months is at least 5,000 homes so the present supply is equivalent to a minuscule two month supply. A balanced market is considered to be six months so we are short about 3,000 homes.

You have heard the saying “If you build it, they will come”. In this case, the demand for new homes is already here, so, “LET’S BUILD IT”!!