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Colorado Springs Real Estate — Market Update
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In Real Estate, Realtors often use a term called Absorption Rate. It is an easy equation which takes the current inventory of houses for sale, divided by the the average number of houses sold per month. The result of this equation is called the Absorption Rate, the lower the rate typically equates to properties selling faster. The Absorption Rate lets you know how well the market is absorbing the current inventory of listings.
Less than 6 months of inventory on the market is considered a seller’s market. Hence, per the chart below, Read the rest of this entry »
Relocating, it’s all about the schools
Are you relocating to the Colorado Springs area, or perhaps the Air Force Academy or Fort Carson or Peterson Field ? Are you relocating with USAA? Trying to decide where to live ?
For a Free Colorado Springs Relocation Guide, Email Kathy Torline at KTorline@msn.com
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To find out how Colorado Springs area schools rank, national and local web sites offer an assortment of school and neighborhood data. The national sites typically pull school and demographic data to generate their school profiles, consequently information on private schools is harder to come by.
But before we start with national sites, let’s first start with links to the school districts in the area:
- District 2 (Harrison)
- District 3 (Widefield)
- District 8 (Fountain)
- District 11
- District 12 (Cheyenne)
- District 14 (Manitou Springs)
- District 20 (Academy)
- District 23 (Peyton)
- District 38 (Lewis Palmer)
- District 49 (Falcon)
OK, now it’s time for the national web sites……………..
- Wealth of information for families with school-age children (test scores, ethnic information, student/teacher ratios and other metrics).
- Schools are ranked by a number of criteria, Read the rest of this entry »
