As the top Realtors in the Fort Collins Real Estate market, we are always looking for more ways to brag about our wonderful city. The list is getting really long. Recently, an independent web consulting firm, Next Generation Consulting rated Fort Collins as the #1 city in the country between 100,000-200,000 people for attracting young talented workers. Here is the link to the article.
http://nextgenerationconsulting.com/assets/documents/NextCities_2009-2010_US.pdf

Our local Northern Colorado Keller Williams Downtown office has been a part of the Fort Collins Real Estate scene for over a decade and has helped many of these young talented workers not only find a place to live here during their relocation to Fort Collins, but also a place to office, retail or invest.

Our full service Fort Collins Real Estate Keller Williams office is here to help you. If you know of any young professionals looking to learn more about Fort Collins or need a Fort Collins Relocation packet. Call us at 970-212-2435

We are proud to announce that Keller Williams and Bank of America are presenting First Time Home Buyers Training. The next session will be held at the Lory Student Center on the Campus of Colorado State University on October 1, 2009. The program will be held from 6-7 pm. Space is limited so call 970.690.8276 or david@davidtimmhomes.com to reserve your spot. The purpose is to introduce home buyers to the whole process of determining what financing you would qualify for, searching for a home, Home buying process, loan products along with programs and incentives for first time buyers.

Fort Collins recently was ranked as one of the ‘hottest’ (meaning cool) places to live in the recent adventurous places to live. It shares the “411 on the housing market, job market and local lifestyle of 18 adventure towns that could inspire new direction and a change in ZIP code,” the magazine wrote in a news release promoting the issue.
This article cites the city’s tidy streets lined by shops and gingerbread Victorian homes in Old Town (priced at $251,000 on average), the 44 manicured city parks, the 1.5 million acres of nearby national forest, and whitewater on the Poudre River. Not to mention the lack of violent crime.
Fort Collins continues to be aknowledged as a wonderful place to live by most. I am sure many ‘natives’ are going to feel the pinch of being overcrowded soon if not all ready. However, the lifestyle and living opportunities here are wonderful. Living the dream.

Fort Collins home sales should benefit from yet another acknowledgement as a great place to live. To us this is a no brainer, but what can you say. Some people are just catching on.

Well, I found it very cool that Next Generation Consulting has selected Fort Collins as the best place to live for professionals among cities with pop 100,000 to 200,000. This organization, that I know nothing about, but they must be very smart, said, ” it used 45 measures to develop lists of cities in three population categories for its “Next Cities” lists of best places for people between the ages of 20 and 40 to live and work. The criteria included employment, education and social opportunities.

“The Next Generation is very savvy about choosing where they’ll live,”

said Rebecca Ryan, NGC’s founder. “They look carefully at quality-of-life factors like how much time they’re going to spend in traffic commuting, if they can live near a park or hike-and-bike trail and whether a city’s downtown stays awake after 5:00.”

You can follow them at, www.nextgenerationconsulting.com you can follow me at www.fortcollinsre.com and check out or blog there and search for Fort Collins property or refer your relocation client that way.