Denver Real Estate

About fifteen miles or so east from the Rocky Mountains, located on the High Plains along the South Platte River is where the great city of Denver, Colorado is situated. Driving west straight towards the city, one has the feeling driving up those rolling foot hills of arriving at a castle city. With the Front Range of the Southern Rocky Mountains soaring into the clear blue, the Denver stands proud, surrounded by its mountain walls and expansive suburbs. The air smells fresher here in Colorado and Denver Real Estate has never been better. The national sub-prime mortgage crisis and bubble bursting inflation and high unemployment is not much of a factor here.

In fact, Denver Real Estate in the mile high city is always increasing in value. After all, Denver is only the twenty seventh largest city in the United States. And Denver is ranked only twenty one with the most populous metropolitan area. If you include all of Denver, Aurora, Boulder and other suburbs then It is ranked seventeen of the U.S. most populated metropolitan areas. Denver is also in the top ten of having the largest centralized business district in the nation.

The city of Denver has about seventy nine neighborhoods. These Denver neighborhoods have varying characters and may differ dramatically. Giant skyscrapers in one section of the city could suddenly give way to a neighborhood with older brick buildings. Denver, of course, has many parks situated throughout the city and its many neighborhoods. Always the center of life, Denver’s parks number over two hundred. City Park is a three hundred and fourteen acre park and the Denver Mountain Parks number over forty thousand acres.

Denver Real Estate professionals know that Denver’s economy is largely based on Denver’s geographical position and as it acts like a hub, the city has many industries. Many large corporations make Denver there home as it is a key trade point for the entire nation, let alone the west coast and Chicago. Denver is not only a transportation and distribution hub, it is also a telecommunications hub as well, with big companies like Comcast, Qwest Communications, Starz-Encore and EchoStar. These high-tech telecommunications companies are ideally situated in the central part of the nation for communication with both coasts and enabling Denver to be a ‘one bounce’ satellite uplink to six continents in the same day of business. Denver’s highway access is also ideal for transportation industries.