Denver Real Estate

New! Mayfair Home for Sale! Open House Saturday 5/18

May 16, 2013 By Jennifer Pollock, Expert Mayfair Realtor Leave a Comment

Jennifer Pollock did it again! Check out our newest Mayfair home for sale! For other great Denver area homes for sale, be sure to check out UrbanDenverHomes.com.

790 Holly Street, Denver CO 80220 – MLS 1187446

Open House this Saturday 5/18 from noon to 4pm. Make sure to stop by and say hello! We would love to see you!

Don’t miss your opportunity to live the dream in this gorgeous Mayfair home for sale located at 790 Holly Street. You’ll feel like royalty upon entering as the dark wood flooring and beams remind you of a medieval castle. The large fenced backyard and enormous deck invite you to live outdoors during the summer; the grand fireplace and open floorplan will wrap you in coziness come winter. The upgraded kitchen is expansive and features granite tile countertops, black and stainless steel appliances, and beautiful pendant lighting. There is plenty of space to host dinner parties in the eat-in kitchen and formal dining room in this Mayfair home for sale. Down the hall, pass through a bonus area (home office? reading nook?) to get to your luxurious master suite, complete with tons of natural sunlight and a private bathroom. On the other side of the house, two bedrooms share a full bathroom for even more privacy. This Mayfair home for sale has it all! Come see it today before it’s gone! For a private showing, contact agent Jennifer Pollock.

Photos and virtual tour of 790 Holly Street, Denver CO 80220 – MLS 1187446

New Listing in Mayfair! Open House Sunday 5/12

May 10, 2013 By Jennifer Pollock, Expert Mayfair Realtor Leave a Comment

Newly listed home for sale in one of Denver’s hottest neighborhoods! Don’t miss you chance to own this renovated ranch in Mayfair! For other great Denver homes for sale, be sure to check out our sister site at UrbanDenverHomes.com!

1094 Jasmine Street, Denver CO 80220 – MLS 1184817

This magnificent Denver home for sale is located in Mayfair at 1094 Jasmine Street. This 1944 gem boasts gleaming original hardwood floors, French doors, spacious bedrooms, and an updated bathroom. The beautiful kitchen in this Denver home for sale has been recently upgraded and includes gorgeous granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. The basement is partially finished and includes crown molding and recessed lighting – a wonderful setting for a media room, personal office, or home gym. There is tons of room in the basement to add a bedroom (or two!) in the future. One of the best kept secrets at 1094 Jasmine is the hidden backyard oasis – come see for yourself! The massive deck adds 400 square feet of outdoor living space; a gas firepit and darling string light set-up complete this idyllic entertainment area. This Denver home for sale in Mayfair has it all! This home won’t last long – see it today! For a private showing, Contact REALTOR Extraordinaire, Jennifer Pollock Today! Jennifer@ExtraExtraHomes.com or Call 720-495-9404. It is just that easy.

Be sure to check out our OPEN HOUSE this Sunday, May 12 from 12:00 to 4:00 pm! We look forward to seeing you there!

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Mayfair Denver, CO Neighborhood 1950′s ranch for sale!

March 20, 2013 By Jennifer Pollock, Expert Mayfair Realtor 1 Comment

We have a great listing in the Mayfair neighborhood – 740 Kearney Street, Denver, CO 80220 is under contract for a significant amount OVER asking price! Subscribe to our page and then check back on March 29th to see exactly how much! Mayfair is a hot hot spot, folks! We had over 200 visitors to our Saturday Open House for this home and multiple offers.

Are you thinking about selling your own Mayfair/Park Hill/Hilltop home in the near future? We have buyers, we need houses! Call/text Jennifer Pollock at (729)495-9404 to score an amazing deal on your home.

Or perhaps you have discovered the hidden jewel that is the Mayfair area and are looking to buy? Jennifer Pollock is the area real estate expert and will help you find your own heavenly slice of Mayfair (or Park Hill, Hilltop!). She can help you find a home before it has even officially hit the market for the best service in town! Call/text her today at (720)495-9404.

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How Hot Is Denver Real Estate? – Stats for July 2012 Mayfair Neighborhood

August 10, 2012 By Jennifer Pollock, Expert Mayfair Realtor 2 Comments

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Here are the latest summer home sales statistics in Denver, CO for the Mayfair neighborhood. These stats apply to residential properties sold in the month of July 2012.

Single family homes aren’t staying on the market long. This is good news if you’re thinking of selling your home in central Denver. There were 12 detached homes sold in Mayfair in July 2012 with an average days on market of only 30. The highest priced home sold for $749,000 and the lowest was $233,650, with an average sold price of $411,814.

Town homes, duplexes, and condos are still affordable in Denver. There were 9 properties of this type that sold in the Mayfair neighborhood and their average days on market before going under contract was 51. The highest priced attached dwelling sold for $252,000 and the lowest was a very budget friendly $54,000! The average price for attached homes was $165,499.

I’m Jennifer Pollock, a real estate expert specializing in Mayfair, Montclair, Park Hill, and Stapleton neighborhoods. If you’re thinking about selling your central Denver home now or in the future, call me TODAY! I can help you evaluate the marketplace and timing of your home sale and offer advice on how to prepare your home so it can sell for the highest price possible.

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5 Questions to Ask Your Real Estate Agent Before Making an Offer

July 30, 2012 By Jennifer Pollock, Expert Mayfair Realtor 3 Comments

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* Q: What did the seller pay for the house?

A: This question will help determine if values are increasing, decreasing or staying flat in the area.

* Q: What do they owe on the house?

A: This will allow you to know if they can sell the home easily while paying all the fees or if they will need to bring money to sell the home. In the case that the seller’s must bring a check to closing , is this possible or will the home be sold as a short sale? Short sale means the bank will sell the home for less than the current owner owes the bank. Bank will ultimately have the final say on whether they will accept less or allow the home to go to a foreclosure sale.

*Q: How much are similar homes selling for in the subdivision/area right now?

A: Ask your real estate agent to prepare a Comparable Market Analysis (CMA) to determine the range of current prices for the neighborhood. The time frame of 3 months or less is a good place to start. If no homes have sold in the past three months there may be economic issues at play such as: Stable neighborhood due to very few homes for sale or resale houses are competing for attention due to a new home builder in the area selling new homes for the same cost.

* Q: How long has the property been on the market?

A: Time on the market can either have a positive or negative effect on price. The longer a home is on the market and not selling the more opportunity there is to make a lower price offer. The less time the home has been on the market makes it harder to negotiate on price. If a home is priced competitively, it may actually create excessive demand and ultimately lead to a higher priced sale than originally offered.

*Q: How many offers have the sellers received on the property?

A: If the home is priced very well and is on the market for only a few days, a seller may receive multiple offers. Multiple offers are when many buyers want to purchase the same home and are competing with each other which will in turn make buyers increase their home offering price to win the home. Many times the agent who is working with the seller will contact a buyer’s agent to ask that the buyer submit their highest and best offer on the property.

Hopefully these questions will allow you to make a great offer and find a well-priced home that fits your budget!

Looking to buy or sell a home in Mayfair?

Call me/text me/email me. I’m here to help.

Find your new Mayfair home available now from $100,000 to $1,000,000.

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What Is An Egress Window?

July 30, 2012 By Jennifer Pollock, Expert Mayfair Realtor 7 Comments

Many Colorado homes offer basement space as extra living or sleeping areas. I like to caution buyers about putting in egress windows once they have purchased a home without them if they plan on spending time in the basement. The main reason that I stress adding these types of windows is for safety reasons. If you are in the basement and a fire starts and blocks the stairs/exit you can become trapped. Egress windows allow an escape route from the basement area.

Many homeowners believe that small windows can be broken out and that they can exit the home. If you are realistic and look at smaller windows in relation to getting your body through them it will make sense that it would be nearly impossible to escape quickly. Egress windows can be installed by a local contractor or you can do it yourself. I have linked to an instructional guide for installing egress windows .

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I have Home Buyers That Need To Buy Today – Do You Want To Sell?

June 7, 2012 By Jennifer Pollock, Expert Mayfair Realtor Leave a Comment

Wondering if NOW is a good time to sell your Denver, CO house? YES, IT IS!!

I have two buyers that I’m working with that are ready to buy a home today in Mayfair, Park Hill or surrounding areas in Denver. Because of the unusually low inventory of homes for sale, they aren’t finding the home that suits their needs. If you’re thinking of selling your home, now might be the best time. Give me a call to get started.

I’m currently showing properties to the following buyers:

Mary & Matt need a brick Tudor or bungalow with at least 2 bedrooms and 2 baths, up to $435k.
Jo & Peter need a home in Park Hill (up to 25th Ave), Montclair, Mayfair, or Hilltop neighborhoods with at least 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and a fully finished basement (with one bedroom and one bath located in the basement), price range $500-610k.

If you know someone who wants to sell a home that meets the needs of one of my buyers, please call, text, or email me TODAY: Jennifer Pollock 720-495-9404 Jennifer@ExtraExtraHomes.com

You can find out more information about selling a home in Denver and my easy selling process at my website ExtraExtraHomes.com.

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Mayfair Realtor Promotes Small Space Living & Capitol Hill Condos

April 3, 2012 By Jennifer Pollock, Expert Mayfair Realtor 2 Comments

Ginger shows off her sewing room underneath her bed! Click on the pic to see the full photo album.

Flickr Photo Tour of This Capitol Hill Denver Condo

Doing more with less is a popular trend these days. One of Jennifer Pollock’s real estate clients and downtown Denver enthusiasts took this theme to the extreme by buying a super small condo in Capitol Hill neighborhood of downtown Denver. Ginger was able to stretch her home buying dollar by choosing a smaller space and modifying it so that it functions like a palatial pad. Let’s take a look how Ginger made living in 440 square feet feel like so much more.

Ginger shows off her sewing room underneath her bed! Click on the pic to see the full photo album.

When you enter Ginger’s place you immediately see that it is no ordinary 440 sq ft condo. Vertical spaces are smartly thought through and utility maximized. She had the refrigerator raised to allow wine storage underneath and lots of wall shelving creates surfaces for small items. She even had small shelving for spices mounted above her upper kitchen cabinets.

Ginger doesn’t use her wood burning fireplace, so she used that space too! A colorful yarn bouquet is decoratively arranged inside the hearth and slab stone surround creates extra seating space during parties. The brick fireplace was painted white, creating a clean, modern, and bright focal point to anchor the room.

Doubling your room space is easy by simply raising the bed off the ground. We call it space conservation! Smart Ginger created a functional sewing room in the space that otherwise would have been used only by dust bunnies. To reach her bed without a trampoline, she added a compact wooden staircase. Even the staircase has hidden storage inside!

Ginger chose a sophisticated and modern color palette of yellow, red, and white throughout her downtown Denver condo. This created a cohesive design that perfectly blends the living room and bedroom areas into one, helping keep the space visually uncluttered.
Special thanks go out to Ginger for giving us a tour of her tiny condo in downtown Denver. If you’re interested in buying in Denver, there are many Capitol Hill condos to choose from. Condo prices range from $25,000 to $1,000,000.

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Mayfair Denver Real Estate Specialist Wins Awards

March 29, 2012 By Jennifer Pollock, Expert Mayfair Realtor Leave a Comment

The Extra! Extra! Homes team with Mayfair Realtor Jennifer Pollock

The staff at Extra! Extra! Homes is excited to announce that Jennifer Pollock, a Park Hill and Mayfair real estate specialist, has won the #1 Individual Production Agent Award at Keller Williams Denver Tech Center Realty for the year 2011!

On a national level, Jennifer Pollock was a Double Gold Award winner for 2011 at Keller Williams International, selling $9.7 million in residential real estate last year in the Denver CO metro area. This makes Jennifer the #1 Keller Williams DTC Realty Individual Production Agent! She was presented with this award at the Keller Williams National Convention (KW Family Reunion) held in Orlando, Florida this past January 2012. Nationally, Jennifer is among the top 20% of all Realtors in the number two brokerage (Keller Williams) across the country and in Denver, CO.

The Extra! Extra! Homes team with Mayfair Realtor Jennifer Pollock

Due to Jennifer Pollock’s outstanding Denver real estate sales levels, the Denver Board of Realtors is honoring Jennifer at their Roundtable Awards on April 5th with a Bronze Award. She’s received this award multiple years.

Jennifer Pollock is one of the Denver metro area best Realtors and has been honored numerous times by the Colorado Keller Williams top market center, KW DTC. Jennifer is honored to be one of Denver’s best Realtors and has been a Top Producer ever year running with Keller Williams Realty International since 2002.

In addition to all this love, Denver’s top local magazine, 5280 Magazine, awarded Jennifer their Five Star Real Estate Agent Award in 2010 and 2011.

If you’re thinking about selling your Denver Park Hill or Mayfair home, you might be interested in knowing that in 2011, Jennifer’s average days on market for her listings was only 29.5 days and her average list to sold price was 99.5%! Sometimes it’s simple facts that say the most.

Jennifer specializes in all central Denver neighborhood real estate such as Park Hill homes and Mayfair homes.

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FHA Loan Rates Are Going Up

March 7, 2012 By Jennifer Pollock, Expert Mayfair Realtor 1 Comment

The biggest thing happening with home loans right now are the changes coming up for FHA mortgage rates. These changes which will take place on April 1, 2012 are no laughing matter. Slight increases are coming, making FHA loan rates a little more pricey.

Before we dive into the changes, I bet you’d like to know what is an FHA loan? The advantages of an FHA loan for you are a lower down payment, a lower interest rate, and the underwriting process is more lenient to your situation because it’s insured. What the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) does is insure the loan to the lender against any losses. So what that means to the borrower is that you’ll usually get a lower rate and the lender will be more flexible on an applicant’s qualification. This is because if the FHA loan goes into default, the lender is insured by FHA. FHA loans are popular with Denver first time home buyers and even more so lately with second time move-up home buyers.

Now back to the FHA mortgage rate increases. To explain these changes, we contacted an expert in Denver mortgages, Ben Yost of Nova Home Loans, to help clarify things. He said that on April 1, 2012, the annual FHA mortgage insurance premium is going up. This upfront premium is currently at 1% and as of April 1^st it will change to 1.75%.

There’s many pieces involved in successfully buying a home in our beautiful Mayfair neighborhood in Denver. . To get to the home buying finish line, a savvy financial move would be to talk with a lender ASAP even if you won’t be ready to buy for another nine months from now. Lending has become more complicated, with more restrictions and hoops to jump through. Ben Yost says there are three main things a lender will look at in order to give you the lo-down on your loan pre-approval and those are: your income, down payment, and credit scores. The lender will review your application, run your credit report, and analyze your situation. If there are job gaps, credit report problems, or anything else, talking with a Denver FHA lender in advance can prepare your financial picture for the day you’re ready to make your housing dreams come true.

I’m Jennifer Pollock, a top Denver Realtor for Keller Williams DTC Realty. Call me when you’re ready to buy a Denver CO home or Greenwood Village horse property. I’m a strong negotiator and I work hard to get you the best Denver CO home price possible. Maybe you’re thinking of moving to Denver CO from out of state. Denver has everything except a beach! Great outdoor activities, professional sports teams, fabulous shopping, and a thriving Denver cultural scene. Call or text me. I’d be happy to discuss your Denver metro home purchase options: 720-495-9404.