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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Metro Denver housing market developing a taste for luxury
Last year's pandemic lockdown complicates any year-over-year comparisons when it comes to metro Denver's housing market, but a few trends definitely remain in play, and some new ones are emerging.

Some Denver property tax payments from early February have gone missing
Denver's Department of Finance is advising residents who sent in checks to pay property taxes in early February to see if those payments have been deposited by the city, and...

Metro Denver apartment rents went up just $8 in the past year, but vacancies are tightening
Metro Denver's apartment rents are almost flat with year-ago levels, but the supply of vacant units is back below pre-pandemic levels, according to the latest Denver Metro Apartment Vacancy and...

“Insane” housing market: More metro Denver buyers willing to pay whatever it takes to get a contract
Metro Denver's housing market has run hot for eight or nine years now, so nobody would blame it for taking a breather, especially a year into a pandemic. Instead, the...

Colorado consumers step on the gas when it comes to new vehicle purchases in 2021
Colorado consumers, especially in metro Denver and on the Western Slope, appear to be shifting back into buying mode again when it comes to new vehicles.

Front Range homeowners can expect to see an increase in their property tax bills
The pandemic pushed down values for several categories of commercial property, but it didn't completely derail the increases that homeowners have experienced for the past decade.

Unemployed Coloradans struggling with identity verification: “We are who we say we are”
Tricia George received unemployment benefits from Colorado like clockwork after she lost her job at a Durango dental office in the early days of the pandemic. So did her three...

Colorado drivers are the country’s safest at navigating poor weather, study finds
Tired of navigating another slush fest, this one in the second half of April? Take heart Colorado drivers -- the state is unrivaled when it comes to avoiding fatal road...

Colorado’s job recovery slips some in March, but don’t blame all that snow
Colorado continued to slip behind the U.S. recovery in March, adding fewer jobs than it did in February and failing to lower the needle on its unemployment rate for the...

Colorado unemployment insurance fraud: $19.4M lost, $437.2M in payments blocked
Scammers have absconded with at least $19.4 million according to fraud numbers the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment released on Friday.