Denver Investment Real Estate

An indoor family entertainment concept that started in Aurora is quietly on track to become a billion dollar enterprise, and most Colorado investors have not heard the story yet. Lava Island opened its first park in 2018 and now operates 11 locations across the country, with every single new park cash flowing positive in its first month. Chris Lopez sits down with Dan Price, managing partner at Am...

Two single-family houses on one lot in Denver for $610,000. A 4-bedroom front house and a 5-bedroom back house, each with separate entrances, separate utilities, and two addresses. As a result, you get the kind of house hack property that pops up maybe one to five times a year on the MLS. In this episode, we break down Jeff White’s 10th house hack, which closed in early May. First, Chris Lop...

Former Superior mayor Clint Folsom has owned Boulder student rentals for over three decades and led Superior through the Marshall Fire rebuild. He brings a perspective most Colorado investors will never get. Host Chris Lopez sits down with Clint to break down what’s actually moving in the CU Boulder student rental market. They walk through two live listings, a $915K five-bedroom south of cam...

The Denver May 2026 real estate market update delivered a surprise nobody saw coming. Active inventory dropped nearly 10% year over year, the first time that’s happened in years. Everyone expected the opposite. With affordability stretched and rates still elevated, the consensus was that inventory would keep climbing through 2026. Instead, new listings collapsed 17.2% and sellers are choosin...

The Denver multifamily market just handed investors something they haven’t seen in a decade. Soft demand, motivated sellers, and seller credits big enough to buy your rate down into the fives. Right now, deals that didn’t pencil two years ago are starting to look like real opportunities for both house hackers and landlords. Host Chris Lopez sits down with Jeff White, Envision Advisors...

The Denver fix and flip market 2026 is producing a strange combination. Strong showing activity and soft offer volume. One Arvada property sat through 57 showings in 44 days. The deal that finally came in fell apart when the buyer’s grandmother refused to release the down payment. That’s the market Derek Marlin is navigating right now. Derek Marlin founded Elevation in 2014. The compan...

Three years into a Denver luxury redevelopment, Paul DeSalvo knows what real estate development mistakes actually cost. Paul, a Denver real estate investor and broker, is back to walk through every one of them. In this episode, Paul returns to update host Chris Lopez on a sweeping redevelopment in Berkeley, Denver — a 1902 Victorian transformed into a 5,500 sq ft, 6 bed/6 bath luxury home with an...

The Denver housing market April 2026 update shows a familiar story. Prices have been flat for three straight years. Rents have softened back to levels not seen since late 2021. So where does that actually leave Colorado investors right now? Chris Lopez brings the full panel together for this monthly update. Jenny Bayless covers the Colorado Springs market as both a broker and active investor. Jeff...

The Denver multifamily market 2026 data is in — and it’s more complicated than most headlines suggest. Average rents have dropped back to Q4 2021 levels at $1,758. Vacancies have climbed from 5.8% to 7.5% in two years. Concessions have nearly doubled year-over-year to 10.1% of gross rents. And in some parts of the metro, prices are off 50% with zero buyer activity. So what does the Denver mu...

Denver condo prices are down 8% since 2022, and houses have gone essentially flat — but is the correction over or is there more to come? In this episode, Chris Lopez walks through Q1 2026 data from Your Castle Real Estate, mapping 52 years of Denver price history to show exactly where each asset class stands today. He explains why condo corrections always play out slowly, even during major market...

2026 Colorado landlord laws introduced more housing-related bills than any year in recent memory — and landlords nearly paid a steep price. One proposal would have let tenants halt evictions mid-process with claims as vague as “transportation issues.” Another would have required landlords to attach a full lease to every demand notice. Neither passed — but the margin was closer than mos...

Denver home prices are flat and condo values are still sliding — here is your March 2026 Denver real estate market update. In Q1, homes across the metro held steady while condos dropped 6% year over year for the fourth consecutive quarter. As a result, that spread is creating two very different conversations for Colorado investors right now. Because the data tells such different stories depending...

After 20 years of buying and holding on the Front Range, the numbers finally said it was time to move. That moment of reckoning is exactly what this episode is about — and for anyone rethinking their Denver real estate portfolio strategy in 2026 , it’s one of the most honest conversations we’ve had on this show. Adam Haman sat on an underperforming Aurora duplex longer than he should h...

Denver office investing in 2026 is drawing serious contrarian attention — and the numbers explain why. Class A buildings in the Denver Tech Center are trading at 30 to 50 cents on their last sale price. Some are selling for 65 dollars a square foot while replacement cost runs 500 dollars or more. For investors who remember multifamily in 2011, the setup looks familiar. Matt Ritter co-founded Pinna...

This solo episode is a full breakdown of Chris Lopez’s 2026 real estate investment deals. He covers every position closed in Q1 and the active pipeline he’s evaluating right now. That includes a hotel conversion buying at roughly $30,000 a door and a Denver office deal at a 12 cap with 6.5% debt in place. The shift from common equity to debt isn’t accidental. Chris walks through...

Small multifamily deals in Colorado are producing cash-on-cash returns worth paying attention to in 2026. Three real deals just went under contract or closed along the Front Range. In this episode, Chris Lopez sits down with real estate agent Jeff White and lender Troy Howell of Nova Home Loans. Together, they walk through three actual deals. Those are a Loveland fourplex at $685K, an Aurora tripl...

The Denver February 2026 market update is here, and active listings nearly hit 9,000 — 5% above last year — with Chris Lopez calling for inventory to break 15,000 before summer. At the same time, rates briefly touched below 6% for the first time in recent memory, triggering a refi wave that helped some borrowers drop from 6.625% to 5.75% with closing costs covered. The purchase market, though, bar...

Canada’s residential mortgage market is a $32 billion annual asset class in Ontario alone. Plus, it’s structurally undersupplied. Unlike the US, Canada has no 30-year fixed mortgage. As a result, strict banking regulations push Canadian homeowners into the private lending market every few years. That forced refinancing cycle produces delinquency rates roughly one-eighth of what US priv...

Most Colorado investors have never seriously considered industrial real estate. At first, it feels like a different world — big buildings, commercial tenants, unfamiliar terminology. But once you understand how the asset class actually works, it starts to look a lot like the multifamily investing you already know, just with fewer headaches. To start, industrial real estate covers a wide range. On...

Denver fix and flip margins are shrinking, condo inventory just hit 11 months, and some DSCR lenders are approving loans at 0.75 debt service coverage. That’s not a typo. For anyone trying to get a clear Colorado real estate outlook for 2026, the signals are mixed — and most of them you won’t find in the MLS. To help make sense of it all, Chris Lopez sits down with Kevin Amolsch, found...

Something shifted in January — and this January 2026 Denver real estate market update breaks down exactly what’s happening. Rents are resetting to 2018 levels. A third of all available apartments were built in the last decade. Colorado now ranks 5th nationally for outbound moves. 55% are leaving the state — the highest since 1990. Landlords across the Front Range are holding rents flat or cu...

What if you could cut your deal analysis time by 80%? Joel Bechtel was drowning in broker documents. T12s in one format. Rent rolls in another. OMs that looked completely different from the last five he’d reviewed. After spending hours copying and pasting data into Excel spreadsheets only to discover a deal wouldn’t work, he built multifamily underwriting software, Deal Flow Pro to sol...

Denver multifamily 2026 cap rates just hit 6 to 6.5 percent. This is the first time since 2009. Furthermore, Denver’s highest-volume multifamily brokers believe this marks the bottom. Meanwhile, many investors wait for blood-in-the-water distressed sales. However, NorthPeak Commercial Advisors see something different in Denver multifamily 2026. Instead, they’re seeing fair pricing on q...

After 600 episodes and nine years of interviewing Colorado’s most successful real estate investors, podcast host Chris Lopez shares the five most important Colorado real estate investing lessons he’s learned—lessons that fundamentally changed how he builds portfolios, navigates market cycles, and adapts investment strategy. Since launching July 7, 2017, Chris has interviewed hundreds o...

The Denver December 2025 market update reveals a shifting landscape for real estate investors. Inventory ended the year at 7,600 active units – up 10% from December 2024 but down sharply from November’s 10,500 units as sellers pulled listings heading into the holidays. The bigger story? Attached properties (condos and townhomes) surged 20% year-over-year while detached homes stayed rel...