Author: otm
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Unemployment Drops, Job Growth Continues
BizWest reports great news: unemployment is dropping as regional job growth is building. For the first time since May of 2007, Boulder County’s unemployment rate was below 3% along with Larimer County hitting 3%, Weld hitting 3.6% and Broomfield hitting 4%. These exciting numbers come straight from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment’s survey of…
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Role Reversal: More Parents Move In With Kids
“While much has been written about millennial children boomeranging back to live with their parents, there’s another group of people who have been quietly doubling up: baby boomers and their own aging parents,” explains Amy Hoak of MarketWatch. Hoak describes an all too familiar situation of aging parents with deteriorating health, not being able to…
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The Fate of Apartment Rent
MarketWatch has some breaking news from the National Association of Realtors: apartment rent will outpace inflation next year. According to a forecast released in November, rent growth is expected to hit 3.9% in 2015, compared to the 4% of 2014. A consensus estimate from economists recently put the overall consumer inflation rate at about 1.9% for…