Neighborhood Guide
Longmont
Prospect New Town, Longmont: You're Buying a Design Regime, Not a Lot
In Prospect New Town you aren't buying a house on a lot, you're buying into a designed, covenant-governed New Urbanist community: walkability, bold architecture and a short walk to shops, in exchange for small lots, strict design rules and an HOA. Here's how to tell if that trade is yours.
Loveland
Centerra, Loveland: The Toll You Pay Three Ways
Centerra isn't a neighborhood, it's McWhinney's integrated shopping-and-living machine, and it tolls a move-up buyer three ways: a metro-district mill on the tax bill, a 1.25% retail PIF on every receipt at its own shops, and the urban-renewal financing beneath both.
Loveland
Mariana Butte, Loveland: The Move-Up Buyer's Guide
Mariana Butte is a west-Loveland golf community by the city's public course and the foothills. It's really three products under one name, and the frontage, view, or open-space edge you pay a premium for sets your hazard load: wildfire on the foothills lots, flood on the golf and river lots.
Boulder
North Boulder Neighborhood Guide: Land, or a Finished Home?
In North Boulder an $800K–$1.5M budget usually isn't buying a house, it's buying a side of the redevelopment fork: an original 1950s–70s ranch that's really a lot with a teardown candidate on it, or someone's finished scrape-and-rebuild at a premium. That's the real decision.
Berthoud
TPC Colorado, Berthoud: The Golf-Club Carry to Price
At Heron Lakes / TPC Colorado, a golf-community lot carries three obligations, not one: the negotiable price, the fixed metro-district mill, and a private PGA-TOUR golf club whose optional dues sit on neither the tax bill nor the HOA statement. Total the stack before you tour.
Lyons
Living in Lyons, Colorado, Where No Median Holds Up
Try to look up what a home in Lyons costs and you'll get four different answers hundreds of thousands of dollars apart. There's a reason: Lyons is too small and too varied to have a usable median. Here's how you actually price a house here.
Berthoud
Living in Berthoud, Colorado? The Mill Levy Decides
In Berthoud's move-up band you're almost always buying a new build inside a metro district. The number that decides the deal isn't the sticker price. It's the district's debt mill levy, and it's the one cost in the whole deal you can't negotiate.
Loveland
What Moving to Loveland, Colorado Actually Costs You
In Loveland's move-up band, the west-side foothills and canyon-mouth homes your dollar reaches are the same homes wildfire and flood insurers have turned hardest to cover. Underwrite the insurance before you write the offer.
Longmont
Moving to Longmont, Colorado: Two Counties, One Town
Longmont sits in two counties, and some Longmont-addressed homes aren't in the city at all. Before you shop, know which Longmont a listing is really in. It decides your well, your septic, and your internet.