Economy and Residential Real Estate Reporter ā The Denver Post
Aldo Svaldi
Aldo Svaldi covers the Colorado economy, economic development and residential real estate for The Denver Post. Prior to joining the newspaper in December 2000, he worked at Financial Times Energy, the Denver Business Journal and Arab News. His coverage has won awards from the Colorado Press Association, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and the Society of Professional Journalists. He is a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Awards and a receipient of the Morton Margolin Prize for Distinguished Business Reporting.
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The Big Payout: Colorado received close to $66 billion in pandemic aid. We tracked where that money went.
Colorado received around $11,426 per person in federal assistance during the pandemic. But distribution was uneven. Pitkin County collected more than $19,000 per resident, while Crowley County only brought in...

Zachary Davidson, Denver Landmark developer, and his fall from grace
Zachary Davidson, Denver Landmark developer, and his fall from grace

Heartbreak along Mockingbird Lane
Heartbreak along Mockingbird Lane
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Colorado legislators banish ‘ghost tax’ proposal on vacant homes
Residential vacancy taxes are both novel and controversial.

Mass production of ZYN nicotine pouches now underway in Aurora
Not everyone in the state is open to the plant's arrival, even with the 500 jobs planned.

Colorado homes acquired by inheritance reach record 12% of home transfers
Inheritances represent about 12% of all home transactions last year in Colorado after a big decline in new and existing home sales since 2022.

Metro Denver home sales in January the weakest since 2008
Pending sales are strong and sellers were out in force last month, even as actual closings hit a low in January last seen in 2008, according to the Denver Metro...

Colorado’s workforce has been shrinking since September — and that could spell trouble
Reduced migration to the state, especially international migration, appears to have reduced the number of working-age adults in Colorado.

Coloradans carry heavy debt loads, and it isn’t financially healthy
Colorado has the highest per capita debt burdens in the country, and there isn't an easy way to reverse that.

Buyers can drive a hard bargain on unsold late model cars
Dodge, Jeep and Alfa Romeo have some of the biggest overhang of 2024 vehicles that haven't found a buyer.

Land holdings of Colorado-connected billionaires took a big leap in 2025
The top four landowners affiliated with Colorado own so much land that it would rank as the 41st largest state in area, behind New Jersey, if it were grouped together.

Colorado sees slowest population gain since the oil bust of the late 1980s
A big drop in immigration cut the country's rate of poulation growth last year in half, and in Colorado the drop was two-thirds.

Limit institutional buyers? It may not help Colorado’s housing market much, experts say.
Big private equity buyers have been net sellers because of elevated prices and diminishing returns.