Economy and Residential Real Estate Reporter — 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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Denver’s Northstar Investment Advisors aligns its future course with California firm
Northstar Investment Advisors, a much larger southern California wealth management firm.

Buyers headed to the foothills during the pandemic, driving up home prices in Jeffco
Ten of the 12 neighborhoods with the highest rates of home appreciation for the year starting June 30, 2020, were located in Jefferson County. The other two were in Douglas...

Rise of the delta variant has small businesses in Colorado and elsewhere worried
Fears about labor costs and supply shortages have taken a back seat to worries about what the Delta variant will do to the economy.

Restarting the daily commute will cost metro Denver workers more than $6,000, study finds
Denver-area workers spend an average of 54 minutes commuting each day, leading to an opportunity cost of $6,659 a year. That's about $1,000 more than the U.S. average, LendingTree's study...

Metro Denver’s housing market hits the brakes in July
A monthly report shows metro Denver's housing market slowed in July, with closings down from June and the inventory of available homes remaining tight but rising at a record rate.

Colorado auto registrations rebound in first half of 2021 from pandemic lows
Buyers registered 123,723 new cars and trucks in Colorado in the first six months of 2021, which is 20.6% more than the number they registered in the first half of...

With five weeks left, nearly 100,000 Coloradans face loss of core federal unemployment benefits
In five weeks, three key federal benefit programs are set to end, which based on current counts could leave 98,000 without a supplemental $300 a week in federal assistance, according...

Metro Denver apartment market makes a sharp U-turn in the second quarter from comfortable to cramped
In three short months, metro Denver's apartment market has dramatically shifted from one with an adequate supply and modest rent increases to one where demand is way outstripping supply and...

Metro Denver home prices set another record, and rents on rise, too
Metro Denver broke a 20-year-old record for annual home price appreciation in April, but it only took a month to break that new record in May, according to the S&P...

Polis asked to extend eviction ban through Sept. 30 for those seeking rental assistance
Local government and nonprofit leaders asked Gov. Jared Polis Monday to provide tenants actively seeking rental assistance dollars an additional two months to avoid eviction as the expiration of a...