The Washington Post recently put together a succinct look at home selling tips related to bathroom updates. It’s said that a dreary, outdated bathroom can be a home sale deal breaker.

Remodeling magazine says the average price of a mid-range bathroom remodel in 2007 was $14,445. But $500 worth of nips and tucks can upgrade the room, says Lytel Young, host of HGTV’s “Save My Bath.”

There are three important things in a bathroom. Clean, simple, and orderly. That’s the key for every budget, whether it’s $500 or $40,000,” Young says.

He recommends these inexpensive steps to sellers whose baths need a facelift:

• Rip out the dated medicine cabinet and replace it with a big mirror.

• Replace the lighting with new sconces on both sides of the mirror plus a new overhead fixture on a dimmer.

• Re-caulk the tub and shower.

• Repaint with a neutral color, but decorate with big, fluffy colorful towels.

• Hang some framed art.

In search of a sprawling and luxurious 5-bedroom 5-bathroom estate in Denver’s Cory Merrill neighborhood? Recently listed 1600 S Monroe Street is your answer.

This brand new construction (2008) home offers over 5,000 square feet of custom built open living space: custom cherry cabinets, custom travertine and granite inlays, and mountain views.

For more details about this custom built home, currently listed at $865,000 ($166 per square foot), contact the Colorado Home Finder team at 1-800-231-9153.

Located at High Street and Broadway between Downtown and Community Plaza Shopping Center (4 blocks to Pearl Street, 2 blocks to Vic’s) is the High Street Lofts development.

Multiple outdoor spaces, custom high-end finishes, and parking are available in one of Boulder’s best locations at 1201 High Street. From the Boulder MLS:

New and Spacious loft style townhome in central Boulder. South facing, urban loft style design featuring an open floor plan, exposed brick, 11′ ceilings, wood and tile floors, cherry cabinets, granite and tile countertops and high quality fixtures throughout the unit. South facing ground level patio, south facing 2nd floor deck with fabulous views of the Flatirons. Walk to everything! ! Centrally located between downtown and Community Plaza shopping center.

Currently available High Street Loft listings range in size from 1,880 to 2,087 square feet, with pricing at $1.1 and $1.2 million respectively.

You may already be familiar with this space if you ever visited the old Broadway Vision optometry office that once occupied this space before moving over to 30th Street.

To schedule a private showing, call (303) 543-3083 or (800) 231-9153.

The Denver Business Journal recently reported that many sources of statewide and local housing information provide data that sometimes conflicts. Those data sources include local public entities, such as the Colorado Division of Housing; private compilers, such as Metrolist Inc.; and national companies, such as foreclosure specialist RealtyTrac Inc. of Irvine, Calif.

With over 80% of Buyers starting their search online, consumers thirst for data, correct data. It’s not always easy to determine whether data is accurate, or if it only appears to be accurate. However, there are some things to look out for when you are looking through housing statistics.

• Consistency — Data for regularly published reports should be from the same sources and use the same guidelines, so it can be accurately compared over time.
• Representation — The more representative the data, the more revealing about a market it is. Colorado’s housing division, for example, regularly includes all sizes of apartment complexes in its quarterly apartment vacancy and rent surveys, rather than just the largest properties other reports use.
• Definition of terminology/clarification — Reports about home-sale prices, for example, should specify whether those prices are average or median.

The Colorado state housing division started compiling its own quarterly foreclosure reports in 2006, because it disputes RealtyTrac’s Colorado foreclosure data. RealtyTrac double- or triple-counts its local information because of how foreclosures are reported in this state, according to Colorado officials.

• Geography — Geographic areas such as metro Denver need to be specified. Some real estate researchers use the seven-county metro area (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties), as defined by state and local agencies. Others employ the 10 counties of the census bureau’s Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area (the seven metro-area counties excluding Boulder County, but including Clear Creek, Elbert, Gilpin and Park counties).

More than likely, any time you see an aggregate of data, you need to verify some of the above-mentioned indicators to determine how solid the information is. More than likely, aggregate data providers are not attempting to lead people astray, rather, there are a number of moving parts and parameters that need to be taken into account to interpret the data appropriately.

With the 2008 baseball season now underway, what better time to buy into some prime real estate next to Coors Field at the 2245 Blake Street Lofts in downtown Denver.

Built in 2000, three units at this Denver loft complex are currently available for sale, ranging in size from 1,703 to 2,084 square feet and priced between $498,000 and $1,200,000. HOA fees include Clubhouse, Insurance, Snow Removal, Exterior Building and Roof Maintenance, Clubhouse with Fitness area, Water/Sewer, Trash, Heat, and Grounds Maintenance. Parking is included.

Call (303) 543-3083 or (800) 231-9153 To schedule a private showing of 2245 Blake Street with a COhomefinder Buyer’s Agent who will represent your best interests in purchasing this property or any other property on the market.