Mystery buyer: Metrolist, the Denver area’s multiple listing service, recently received an unsolicited offer from an undisclosed buyer to purchase its assets.
Metrolist’s board and shareholders are reviewing the proposal, said Melissa Olson, the service’s marketing communications manager.
Metrolist, formed in 1984, is a for-profit company run by six metro-area boards of Realtors.
Gold diggers: Breckenridge’s Revett Manor is slated to be auctioned off Aug. 8.
Noted as one of Colorado’s 50 most famous homes in Sandra Dallas’ book “Gaslights and Gingerbread,” the five-bedroom, three-bath Victorian mansion sits on 14 acres adjoining the White River National Forest.
Ben Stanley Revett, known as the Gold Dredge King, built the house for his wife in 1898. Revett was known for bringing in large wooden boats to extract gold by dredging stream beds.
J.P. King Auction Co. is managing the sale for owners Glenn and Mary Campbell, who are moving to Arizona.
Medical plan: Strong demographics and residential growth in the south metro area have prompted the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado to build new medical and office facilities in Parker.
Kaiser paid $2.5 million for a 6.5-acre site at Pine Bluffs being developed by Koelbel Development at the northeast corner of South Parker and Hess roads. Mike Wafer of Grubb & Ellis represented Kaiser in the deal.
Parade of playhouses: Five Denver homebuilders are completing construction of five children’s playhouses that will be on display during the Parade of Homes.
Each playhouse cost about $5,000 to build and furnish with toys and child-size furniture to create a kid-sized home environment.
The playhouses will be auctioned off online. Visit www.paradeofhomesdenver.com for a link. The goal is to raise $25,000 to benefit the Home Builders Foundation of Metro Denver and to provide remodeling and housing accessibility to families with disabilities or who are otherwise in need.
The playhouses were built by Chartered Homes, David Weekley Homes, John Laing Homes/Village Homes, Montgomery Homes and Shea Homes.
Staff writer Margaret Jackson can be reached at 303-820-1473 or mjackson@denverpost.com.
