Derek Lis
Broker Associate
Phone: 303-398-7012
Email: derek@nexsteprealestate.com
Derek Lis is a Colorado native who grew up in Fort Collins and attended the Colorado School of Mines where he played football and received a B.S. in Civil Engineering. In addition to being a licensed Real Estate Agent, he is also a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado. After college he went on to work as a civil engineer in Denver and worked on the redevelopment of the Union Station neighborhood. While working full-time, he decided to go back to school at the of The University of Denver where he received an M.S. in the Real Estate & Construction Management program. He was then able to transition into real estate as his full time career, but is able to apply his expertise in land development engineering to provide value to prospective real estate clients.
Derek is well versed in all aspects of real estate completing multiple transactions in residential, commercial, leasing, investment properties and even completed a ground up development of a mixed-use development. In addition to providing brokerage services, he actively invests and manages residential and commercial investment properties. He is a recipient of the Five Star Professional award and working towards his CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member) designation. In his free time you can find him in the mountains, at live sporting events, or anywhere live music is being played. He resides in Denver with his wife and three daughters.
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Denver Metro 6 County Inventory Count
Market Fun Facts (03/02/23): Welcome to the New Year. How will the market look as we enter into the 2023 selling season? To answer this question NeXstep continues to monitor inventory levels across the 6 County Denver Metro. For the fifth month in a row we see inventory levels decrease as we enter into the new year; active listings are down -558 listing this month, for a total of 4,318 active homes for sale. This is a substantial increase from March 2022 as we had only 1,426 home for sale to start off the new year. However, sales are also up +810 properties from last month for a total of 3,114 sold homes in the past 30 days. Consequently, our average absorption rate decreased by appx 1.0 month from 2.35 months to 1.34 months. All six counties experienced a decrease in active listings and an increase in total sales.
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Read MoreYun: Expect an Unseasonably Hot Winter for Home Sales
This winter is expected to be unseasonably hot for the housing market. “Compared to other past winter seasons, this winter season’s sales activity will be stronger,” says Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of REALTORS®. “This winter, there will be more sales compared to pre-pandemic winters going back all the way to 2006. The momentum from the last few months is expected to continue. From March through October, homes have been selling faster than they traditionally do.
Read MoreGreater Metro Denver Market Review
Special Thanks To DMAR Market Trends Committee For The Following Report…Happy New Year! It’s time to look back and ponder what happened over the past year and look ahead to set goals and make predictions for the new year. Let’s start by looking at the top three things we know about the Denver metro real estate market in 2019:
Read MoreAnd The Winner Is….
Thank you to everyone who participated in NeXstep 3.0 Webiste Feedback Challenge. We had so many great comments and ideas as we developed the latest version of our website. Designed with you in mind; NeXstep 3.0 is more than just a search site. Congrats to Adina and Tommy; Dinner is on NeXstep!
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Excel Financial Group
Shauna Moffatt, Mortgage Broker/Consultant Mobile: 970-566-0307 Email: shauna_moffatt@excelfg.com Website: https://www.excelmortgagebrokers.com/staff/shauna-moffatt/ About Shauna…
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