Tag: foreclosures
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Local home building improves in October
The pace of home building improved in the Colorado Springs area last month, while foreclosure filings might be leveling off, two new reports suggest. Good news for the housing market? Not so fast, industry officials say: • Building activity: El Paso County single-family home building permits totaled 105 in October, a 52.2 percent jump over…
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Pace of home building unchanged in September from a year ago
The pace of home building remained steady, although not spectacular, last month in the Pikes Peak region, while foreclosure filings continued on a record pace, a pair of reports showed Thursday. Single-family home building permits in Colorado Springs and surrounding El Paso County totaled 97 in September, unchanged from the same month a year ago,…
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Saturday event aims to help with foreclosure, other economic challenges
Colorado Springs’ housing market has shown small signs of improvement in recent months, yet many homeowners still struggle. “We speak with homeowners that have a wide range of issues they’re facing,” said Jodi Gelerter, president of the non-profit Pikes Peak Foreclosure Prevention Partnership in Colorado Springs. “It’s not only their mortgage payment, sometimes they can’t…
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Local housing market shows signs of improvement
The Colorado Springs area housing market moved closer to a turnaround in August as sales rose the fastest in nearly four years and prices fell by the smallest amount in more than a year, the Pikes Peak Association of Realtors reported Thursday. Sales last month jumped 14.5 percent from a year ago to 891 houses,…