NOT A TRICK...A TREAT |
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Moving around Cherry Creek these days is a real trick! With construction traffic and the lack of available parking, it is no treat to visit or live in the area and it will be years before the problems are resolved. A great Cherry Creek alternative, just listed and available immediately is a fabulous corner unit with views in a sophisticated controlled access building within walking distance to the Cherry Creek Mall, lower price per square foot and it has parking!
Just Listed is a ninth floor unit in the Four Hundred East Third Ave Building, off Speer Boulevard and Logan Street. The building has easy access to Cherry Creek, Washington Park and all that is available in downtown Denver. The contemporary building boasts city and mountain views, this corner condominium has both along with 2 bedrroms, 2 baths and 2 garage parking spaces. The building has ample off street and free guest parking, a concierge, elegant large guest room suites, a fitness room, a business center and conference room and large rooms for entertaining. The secured access is twenty four hours allowing for a true lock and leave location.
The unit just listed is a southeast corner unit with views of Pikes Peak and Mt Evans, city views towards Cheesman Park and southern views of Washington Park. The views this time of year are a riot of color!
The listing price is $575,000, the unit across the hall sold prior to actually hitting the market. The building is hot, the area is hot, the Cherry Creek alternative is hot!
Get in now and get this TREAT!
For more information contact
Judy Fahrenkrog
Kentwood City Properties
303-820-2489
judy@kentwoodcity.com
posted: October 30, 2013
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Autumn#Castle Pines Village |
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Castle Pines Village, at 6280 feet above sea level, is an area in Colorado that indigenously grows gambel oak or scrub oak. It isn't seen in the city limits of Denver because of the lower altitude, nor in Evergreen and near mountain communities because of the cooler temperatures. It grows in Castle Pines Village because the environment is deliciously nourishing! Take note...good for humans too! The gambel oak and the other deciduous trees are in full color, mix that with Colorado bluebird skies...en plein aire pleasure.
Commonly referred to as the "best kept secret in Colorado", Castle Pines Village is only 25 minutes from downtown Denver's major sports scene, cultural scene and bar hopping, only 12 minutes from the shopping and restaurants in the DTC and Park Meadows area. A minor commute for a resort like community. Nestled amongst a century old Ponderosa pine forest and two major Jack Nicklaus signature golf courses, Castle Pines is where Denver becomes Colorado again!
Come visit us! Holding a Broker Open House Thursday, October 24th from 12 - 3 pm with lunch provided by Daniel Dexter, Wells Fargo Private Mortgage Banking.
2715 Castle Glen Place is a 5,996 finished square foot home situated on a double Glen lot on the Castle Pines Golf Club's #1 Fairway, with mountain and course views.
Available at $1,500,000.
303 Castle Pines Drive South is a classic red brick two story with a mountain vibe on a 1.6 acre lot on the Castle Pines Golf Club's #13 Fairway. This 8,011 finished square foot custom has entertained a former US President and several famed professional golfers.
This home is co-listed with Richard Berman of Kentwood DTC.
Castle Pines Village is a gated community with controlled access. You may gain entry by emailing
judy@kentwoodcity.com
Kentwood City Properties phone 303-820-2489.
If you have a relationship with a Realtor, this is a Broker Open and all brokers are invited to bring their clients.
We look forward to spending a magnificent autumn afternoon in colorful Castle Pines Village, Colorado!
posted: October 23, 2013
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Contextualism Castle Pines Style |
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Chicago, the city of architecture, so iconic that the city should be renamed...Chicarchitectgo! On a recent trip and architectural tour along the river, several of the renowned high rise buildings were spectacular representations of conceptual design/contextualism.
Contextualism is when the design form follow the context of the environment, as in building on a curve to represent the curvature of the Chicago river, the result is a beautiful design with green windows that curve out to form a vertical river design.
Contextualism is sustainable design and ever present in the beautiful community of Castle Pines Village. The architecture in a custom home in Castle Pines is screened by an architectural design review committee that collaborates with the architect and lot owner to conceptualize a home that coordinates with the lot site, adapting several of the topographical and landscape features. A few examples are visible on this web site.
Gan Aden, Hebrew for Garden of Eden,at 31 Albion Place is an excellent example of contextualism. Articulating the natural landscape with interior rooms was the primary goal. Upon entering the home, the tena nd eleven foot floor to ceiling windows bring the outside into the home's interior. Hopes high windows and doors, including spectacular pocket doors, allow the appreciation of the Marpa designed landscape from each room. The lot combines the indigenous flora an fauna which makes Castle Pines Village unique, with a zen quality in placement of koi ponds, a tea house and sculptures.
Another example of contextualism can be seen at 2715 Castle Glen, a home situated along the first fairway of the Castle Pines Golf Club's famed International course. This home has the advantage of an additional lot within the Glen, to protect the mountain and golf course views and privacy within the Glen community of cluster homes. The tiered extra lot allowed the landscape to resemble the lustrous and manicured greens of the gold course.
Take your own architectural tour in a community that respects contextual design. Phone or email:
Judy Fahrenkrog
Kentwood City Properties
303-820-2489
judy@kentwoodcity.com
Castle Pines Village is a gated community located south of the metro Denver, 20 minutes from Park Meadows Mall, Centennial Airport and the new Skyridge Hospital and medical complex. It is located within a century old Ponderosa pine forest, abundant in scrub gambel oak and two signature Jack Nicklaus golf courses. The communit has three swimming pools, tennis courts, hiking and biking trails, abundant starry nights and natural wildlife. The homes are designed to compliment not compete with the environment. This is where Denver becomes Colorado again. Call now for your private tour.
posted: September 26, 2013
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#Invited! |
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Post Labor Day...fashions change but for this event "you can leave your whites on"! A cordial invitation is out for a late summer lunch and Broker Open House in Castle Pines Village. There will be 5 homes open for the progressive lunch and the tour will begin with the most spectacular, Gan Aden!
Gan Aden was the featured home of the year in Colorado Homes and Lifestyles and is one of the chosen homes in the Christie's International Bespoke program of luxury real estate.
The architectural design of the home is context and site specific, timeless in character and sustainable through a natural use of materials and a modern aesthetic. From the dramatic arrival sequence, featuring a stunning reflection pool and waterfall to the exterior courtyards and patios with views of a tea house and a koi pond amidst landscaped gardens. No need to "google zen" because you will find zen at Gan Aden.
Castle Pines Village is a gated community located south of the metro Denver area, just ten minutes from the Park Meadows Mall, even less from the state of the art Sky Ridge Medical Center. The community is comprised of luxury homes, two signature Jack Nicklaus private golf clubs, two community pools and tennis courts, a private health club with lap pool, hiking and biking trails, plenty of natural landscape and wildlife and a century plus ponderosa pine forest. The beautiful sunrises and sunsets and starry, starry nights are included in the package.
For more information about Castle Pines Village and to rsvp to the Open House for gate admittance, contact me.
Late Summer Broker Open House and Lunch
Judy Fahrenkrog
Kentwood City Properties
303-820-2489
judy@kentwoodcity.com
posted: August 27, 2013
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TWEET #HOUSING |
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SUNDAY, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, featured housing, in all shapes, forms and styles.
One of the great American dreams right up there with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is housing. Housing is one of the most established investments for the American family. Housing remains the center of the American family and housing plays a major role in the health of the American economy.
One of the more interesting segments on the show was the American passion for birdhouses, including birdhouses that reflect the homes of the very rich and very famous. Martha Stewart's Connecticutt farmhouse, several of the famed Wyeth portrait homes are among a few of the upper end homes for feathered friends, but the smaller, child-like versions are just as charming.
Housing is back and it is time to jump into the market. There are still many communities where opportunities are abundant.
Find the home that fits you and your lifestyle, work with a professional that will get the job done.
For more information on housing in the Denver metro area, contact me. I have sold properties city close and in luxury communities in and around the metro area, including Castle Pines Village. Let's find a home to tweet about!
Judy Fahrenkrog
Kentwood City Properties
303-820-2489
judy@kentwoodcity.com
posted: August 25, 2013
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Paved Paradise |
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With the first of the construction related road closures, Cherry Creek North is beginning to look like a run-on sentence. Parking is now the most coveted asset in this upscale neighborhood over the next three years, any residence with 2 dedicated parking spaces will enjoy appreciation. A residence with 4 dedicated parking spots will see double or quadruple. The restaurant Hillstone recently entered a 5 year lease on an apartment building that was torn down to create a parking lot, adjacent to the current lot behind the restaurant, going from 35 off-street spaces to 60, paying a pretty high pave penny.
Contrary to the bike hype from the city's chamber, the metro area is a city with a love/hate car affair. Cherry Creek is not in the zip code of the light rail system, public transit is not an option and there are only two locations to catch that cab. To enjoy the touted shopping dining experience that Cherry Creek offers one must drive. Finding parking is akin to being in the queue as a buyer for a home with multiple offers.
Hope and prayer? Not necessarily because JUST SOLD a three bedroom 3600 square foot townhome with not 2 but 4 parking spaces. The contemporary townhome with an Italianate vibe is one of 4, next door to Hillstone. The 3 story homes have attached garages with 2 spaces and 2 extra parking spaces in the enclosed private parking area. Really?
Really! The townhomes are zoned for office usage on the main level, approximately 900 square feet with a walk-off street front door. The most recent sale was $244 per square foot, that includes the parking! With these numbers it is hard to justify not leasing the extra parking to pay the mortgage!
For more information on the townhomes, or other real estate opportunities in Cherry Creek or other neighborhoods in the metro Denver area contact me.
If you want to escape the asphalt jungle, I can help there too with 3 listings in the wooded and gated Castle Pines Village where the only contender for parking is a golf cart.
All of these areas, and listings are available to view on this website.
Judy Fahrenkrog
Kentwood City Properties
judy@kentwoodcity.com
303-820-2489
posted: August 1, 2013
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Get Lucky! |
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How many times have you heard someone say, "We got lucky when we bought this house"? Well the time is now to go and wake up your luck! The major price reduction at 2715 Castle Glen Place, $100,000, is in play. This is major luck for any buyer!
Castle Pines Village, the 2800 acre gated community located in the southern Denver metro area is the best kept secret in Colorado...but not for long. Castle Pines Village was a planned development that time released the lots to individuals and builders creating an ongoing cycle of inventory. The last of the lots hit the market at the bubble creating a release of new luxury product at the beginning of the housing crisis creating a surplus of inventory during a recession. Breaking into 2013, the market picture has changed color! So get in and get lucky!
The home at 2715 Castle Glen Place was reduced to $1,500,000. The home is located on a rare double lot in the Glen contiguous to the first fairway of the prestigious Castle Pines Golf Club. The extra lot affords unlimited mountain, ponderosa forest and fairway views. The home is stone construction, locally quarried, and true copper roofs and gutter system...the copper in the roof is worth the price of the home.
A main floor master suite with private deck, main floor study and large great room and dining room open to the kitchen area and additional deck. The lower level boasts a temperature controlled wine and tasting room, full wet bar and entertainng area, three additional bedrooms and an exercise room. The lower level walks out to the professionally landscaped yard, patios and additional lot. Thinking pool and casita? You can build an outdoor living area on the additional lot and control the height and location to protect the awesome views from the house.
Call now for an appointment to view this luxury home.
Judy Fahrenkrog
Kentwood City Properties
303-820-2489
email: judy@kentwoodcity.com
posted: July 25, 2013
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Priceless! |
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Seeing a Super Moon off the deck of a home on the first fairway of the Castle Pines Golf Club's International course, sipping a wonderful beverage under starry night skies, hearing a soft murmur of a distant train, firing the olfactory senses with a pine scent, watching a pair of twin fawns following their mother...
Priceless, well at the most elegant listing in Caslte Pines Village that has just been reduced in price, the opportunity to live this dream is priceless.
The double lot home at 2715 Castle Glen Place and a cover property on this website has just been reduced to $1,500,000!
This Glen home's double lot affords uninterrupted mountain and golf course views and expansion abilities for a guest casita or pool and casita. The home's professional landscaping compliments the indigenous ponderosa and scrub oak forest and the natural stone construction with a solid copper roof bringing ultimate sophistication to the location.
This home won't last, so contact me for a private tour of the ultimate opportunity to own this priceless dream.
Judy Fahrenkrog
Kentwood City Properties
303-820-2489
judy@kentwoodcity.com
posted: July 23, 2013
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The Cherry Monk |
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The legend of the Cherry Monk, featured on the poster of the 2013 Cherry Creek Arts Festival, is a tale of a monk that bicycles to the top of a mountain to pick and gather cherries from a tree of enlightenment for the deserving members of the village below, however the road down the mountaintop is so rutted that the cherries spill from the basket and scatter randomly. Only the luckiest villager receives the enlightenment. Feeling lucky and random? Maneuvering today's residential real esate market requires both luck and enlightenment!
With record low inventory, and rapidly changing interest rates, the buyer in today's market needs a combination of finesse, enlightenment and luck. Many homes in highly desirable areas are receiving multiple offers within a few hours of launching to market. The winning buyers begin their search with pre-qualified letters from reliable lenders and ample earnest money....enlightenment.
Some of the hottest neighborhoods in Denver are the Highlands, Washington Park, Observatory and University Park, Denver Country Club and the Cherry Monk's favorite Cherry Creek. To engage in this real estate game, don't depend on the random scattering of great listings to roll from a bicycle basket...connect with a real estate specialist, preferably one that lives and breathes your desired neighborhood.
As a resident in Cherry Creek, and a fourth generation Denverite with homes in Hilltop and Park Hill, I have the knowledge and expertise to help you manage the search.
For more information contact me at Kentwood City Properties.
303-820-2489 or judy@kentwoodcity.com
posted: July 9, 2013
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The Real Estate Within |
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Is the most expensive square footage of real estate the dining room in your own home? So you need a large dining room for the table that sits twelve chairs comfortably because you have a boxed set of Thanksgiving china with accessory pieces that dare to be broken once a year? Didn't think so.
Time to take stock and get clear with how you live, and then look around your home to determine if the real estate is still valuable.
A living room that gathers dust can play out as a different culture center...need a playroom for the kiddos? Many interior designers will inject new life into unused rooms by simply adding what is missing. Turn that stale living room into a library with a long table used as a library table when not in use as the dining table, shelve the walls with books, photos, a TV and add the oversized sofas or chairs...voila! Next step, turn the unused dining room into a home office with homework stations for the kids...use it as the smart location with all the plugs and the room will get heavy use. Everyone may be on their own tablet, but they will be within the same real estate.
Rooms are like people, they need character. If the room is the classic look right out of the last issue of any number of magazine glossies, then perhaps the character of the owner is indeed lifted off the page. Guests come to your home because they want to be with you and soak up that aura of friendship, can they do it in a room that suggests you live along Central Park rather than Wash Park? If the room characterizes the owner, than you have a room with more user visits, therefore useful real estate within.
If you have tried a number of these options and still cannot make all the empty space and real estate within your home work, give me a call and we can find a home that suits your lifestyle. I work with buyers and sellers in the Denver area, city close and country wide. For more information go to...
judy@kentwoodcity.com
Judy Fahrenkrog
Kentwood City Properties
303-820-2489
posted: June 17, 2013
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