If you are currently looking for rental property in Denver, then you know the search for an affordable apartment can be daunting. It's the law of supply and demand: fewer rentals mean higher prices. The harsh reality has many people searching for roommates to keep...
Real Estate and Construction Management Articles
Trends in Rising Denver Rents
Denver rents are on the rise. Daniels Associate Professor Dr. Ron Throupe, Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management, explores the rising rates. This collection of reports give insight into the high rates, what it means for buyers and what to...
At The Burnsley, a vintage Denver hotel remade as stylish apartments
On a recent morning, Miles Omand stood on a large 16th-floor penthouse balcony at 1000 Grant The Burnsley in Capitol Hill and absorbed the view: to the south, Pikes Peak. Northward, the Front Range heading toward Longs Peak. To the west: snow-dusted Mount Evans. And...
Rental vacancies fall; rents set record
The overall Denver-area apartment vacancy rate in the third quarter fell to a 14-year low of 3.9 percent, while average monthly rental rates once again set a record high, shows a report released on Friday. “Every quarter we set a new high,” said Ron Ron Throupe, the...
Results for Q3 of 2014: Denver apartment vacancy slips below 4 percent, rents increase...
The University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business and Colorado Economic and Management Associates, published by the Apartment Association of Metro Denver, today released the Denver Metro Area Apartment Vacancy and Rent Survey report. For the third quarter of...
Metro Denver’s Tight Housing Market Puts a Squeeze on Rentals
Metro Denver's constricted housing market, which has squeezed buyers since early 2013, has begun to wrap its coils more tightly around renters. Higher home prices and quicker sales times have resulted in a larger number of landlords cashing out, leaving fewer homes...
Airbnb: How one town – Malibu – is navigating bumps in the ‘sharing’ e...
The global rise in the past two years of the “sharing economy” – using Airbnb and other websites to rent a room or get a ride – has had its share of pushback. Regulated hotels and licensed repair shops have seen an unlevel playing field, communities have complained of...
Playing for a Cause: The Burns School Playhouse Project
Scott and Wendi Smith have a family far different than most, with four biological children, Josh 21, Joel 18, Leah 15 and Luke 12 and six adopted children from China with varying medical physical challenges and conditions, including cleft palates, cranial deformities...
The Future of the Burns School
It has been my distinct honor to become the director of the Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate & Construction Management during the year of its 75th anniversary. When I joined the Burns School and the Daniels College of Business last fall, I immediately...






