Denver is on the list of a few major areas of the country seeing a wave of migration now in the wake of Covid—new arrivals from San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, searching for a better, safer place to live. But as homes are snatched up, prices here are climbing, too.
“For buyers now, itap an emotional roller coaster,” says Christina Grabau at Reunion near DIA—who can show you three models of Oakwood’s new Sterling Duets collection—paired-home designs that have the size of a single-family home, starting from well under $400,000, no bidding required.
In a climate where buyers are struggling to find affordably priced homes, The Duets are hugely popular. The models you’ll see have only been open for a little over a month, and already 80 of them have sold.
Those include an ‘Argento’ 3-bedroom/2-1/4-bath design thatap the Duets’ fastest seller. It has almost 1,600 sq. feet of finished space, plus a 2-car attached garage, and right now its base price is just $349,700.
That price could go up over in coming weeks as buyers wait for new home sites to be released. Even if that happens, Oakwood expects to be able to deliver an Argento for under $400,000 if you lock-in one soon.
By contrast, the median-priced home in the Denver metro area last month was $475,000—figuring in sales of condos and townhomes along with detached homes.
At Reunion, off E. 104th Avenue west of Tower Road, Oakwood has other models in the series that it expects to deliver from the $350s—a real price that includes energy efficiency and smart-home features that older homes can’t match.
Grabau, who along with Camille Shearon will greet you at Reunion, says buyers like the low-maintenance aspects of these Duet designs. (In addition to first-time homebuyers, numbers of purchasers are people who have owned homes for decades and no longer want the chores and responsibilities of a bigger house.)
You’ll also see the master-planned attractions of Reunion itself, including a 52-acre centerpiece park with a pool/rec center and a new community coffee house overlooking a lake. And you’ll see where the community’s newest attractions are taking shape at Reunion Center, including a 5-day/week STEAD school that 27J Schools plans to open this year, along with an event center, baseball complex, and a market and food hall.
To reach the new Duets models, take E. 104th to Reunion Parkway, turn south one block to E. 103rd, then turn east.
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