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A secluded, 37-acre estate with amenities for the person who loves nature and seeking plenty of space for all-terrain and aquatic activities is available for $1.14 million.

Initially listed in November of 2017 by Keefe Real Estate, the home is in the town of Randall, about 30 minutes west of Interstate 94 and the Pleasant Prairie Premium Outlets shopping complex in Kenosha County.

Built in 1997 at 33909 Bassett Road, the ranch-style home spans more than 3,700 square feet and includes three bedrooms…

The historic home at 4910 Tait Road is 4,467 square feet and has four bedrooms. The home was originally a summer cottage for NCR founder John Patterson, and was expanded to its current size in 1956.

Note: Click the gallery to see photos of the home.

The exact year the cottage was built is not known. John Patterson, who died in 1922, founded the National Cash Register Company in 1884.

The home has four bathrooms and two half-bathrooms. The kitchen offers double ovens, custom cabinetry, state-of-the-art…

The sale of a unit at Kuu Makana, a four-unit townhome oceanfront enclave on Diamond Head, has closed for $5.3 million, the first sale there in more than five years.

The sale marked the first time the three-bedroom, 3.5-bath 3,536-square-foot unit C was offered on the market at an asking price of $5.97 million. John Peterson of Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties represented the seller, while Carl Smigielski of Keller Williams Realty represented the unnamed buyer.

The seller was a member of the…

The Howard Hughes Corp. launched owner-occupant sales Friday for Koula, its 41-story mixed-use tower that will have 565 units.

The project is the sixth mixed-use tower in Honolulu for the Howard Hughes Corp. (NYSE: HHC) and the first that will face the newly opened Victoria Ward Park.

The building was designed by Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang, while Yabu Pushelberg designed the interiors, and Hawaii designer Sig Zane of Sig Zane Designs provided the name. The units will include a mix of studios, one-,…

The two-story home for sale on Ukraine Street in Aurora’s Saddle Rock East neighborhood doesn’t look much different from others listed in the neighborhood.

What’s different, however, is who’s selling it, and how it’s being sold.

Opendoor entered the metro Denver market in October, alongside rival Zillow Offers. Both are making bids on homes, promising to take on the slog of repairs, listing a property and dealing with buyer contingencies and timelines.

“If you fit our parameters, there is a good chance we will buy your house,” said P.J. O’Neil, the San Francisco company’s general manager in Denver.

More than 2,000 area property owners have approached Opendoor, although many were just testing the water and some had homes that didn’t fit. But Opendoor has been busy making offers and about 70 homes are under contract, with a few now on the market.

The for sale sign on the Ukraine Street home includes a code that unlocks the front door when entered into the company’s mobile applicatio..

With the cost of housing still on an inexorable rise in the metro area, Englewood architect Randal Friesen sees accessory dwelling units as a key to solving the area’s affordable housing puzzle.

The only problem is that new ADUs — think “granny flats” or “garden cottages” that are often used to house an aging parent or a child not quite ready to fly the nest — weren’t allowed in Englewood.

Until now.

On Monday, the city council narrowly approved an ordinance allowing ADUs to be established in more than half of Englewood’s residential zoned areas. The suburb of 35,000 follows in the footsteps of several metro-area communities that have loosened rules on accessory dwelling units, including Denver, Arvada and Golden.

Englewood’s vote is good news for Friesen, whose adult daughter can now live in a small alley house on a lot he owns in the city, just a few feet from a full-size home he would build there.

“Affordable living is what’s not available out there,” he said. “My daughter can’..

Denver moved up three spots to rank fifth last year in an annual survey of the country’s top moving destinations from Penske Truck Rental.

Atlanta has ranked in the top spot since 2010, when the survey started, and it didn’t budge in 2018. Reflecting the long-term population shift to warmer climates, Phoenix, Tampa and Orlando followed Atlanta. Eight of the top 10 cities were in the Sunbelt.

Two colder climate cities, Denver and Portland, Ore., made the list despite their higher real estate prices compared to other cities on the list. Denver ranked 8th in 2017, 4th in 2016 and 6th in 2015.

One of the big surprises in the 2018 survey was the sharp drop in the popularity of Dallas/Fort Worth, which went from third in 2017 to a no show in 2018. But Texas kept two cities on the list, Houston at No. 6 and Austin at No. 9.

A separate survey from Atlas Movers defined Colorado as a balanced market for relocations, with the company involved in 2,308 moves leaving the state and 1,899 moves c..

When it comes to Denver’s ongoing real estate boom, industry pros are beginning to wonder if the laws of gravity still apply.

Specifically, Matt Vance, director of research and analysis for real estate services firm CBRE’s Colorado office, is wondering if what goes up really must come down.

“It’s like, when is this cycle going to turn down?” Vance said. “And it just hasn’t.”

There was no hint of a return to Earth in CBRE’s year-end examinations of metro Denver’s retail, office and industrial real estate markets, and CBRE experts aren’t seeing reason to believe a descent will begin in 2019 either.

Perhaps nowhere is the Denver real estate market’s sustained strength more revealing than in the retail sector. That much-maligned segment of the real estate market, allegedly on the continual verge of collapse under the weight of online competition, posted a strong year in Denver in 2018, according to CBRE’s research. Asking lease rates of $19.34 per square feet hit a record as of the end..

Metro Denver’s housing market saw sales slide and prices continue to rise last year, and that pattern dominated across much of the state, according to a monthly update from the Colorado Association of Realtors.

Colorado Springs and El Paso County, the next biggest housing market after metro Denver, suffered a 5.5-percent drop in single-family sales and an 8.6-percent decline in condo and townhome sales last year compared to 2017, according to the CAR report.

That proved a little more severe than the 3.6-percent decline in single-family home sales and the 4.8-percent decline in condo sales metro Denver recorded, according to a separate report from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors.

Despite the drop in sales, the median price of a single-family home sold last year in El Paso County rose 9.8 percent, hitting the $300,000 mark in December. The median price of a condo rose 12.3 percent on the year to $215,000.

“2018 proved to be a very difficult year for the industry,” said Color..

Denver has claimed the throne as the metro’s area most expensive city in which to rent a one-bedroom apartment, according to a report from real estate listing site Zumper.

Examining a collection of apartment listings that went on the market in December, Zumper staff member Crystal Chen determined that the Mile High City’s median one-bedroom rent of $1,530 per month was the highest among 12 major metro cities.

A $20-rise between November and December catapulted Denver past Broomfield and Centennial for the top spot. Broomfield, the metro area’s priciest apartment market in Zumper’s December report, saw its median asking rate fall $20 to come in third place for January at $1,500. Centennial held onto the second spot at a steady $1,510.

Lakewood, Parker and Castle Rock round out the top half of the listings. The cheapest one-bedroom places in metro Denver can be found in Arvada ($1,120 per month), Aurora ($1,200 per month) and Northglenn ($1210 per month), according to Zumper.

When it..