Larkspur gives homebuyers an escape from city life

Located halfway betwixt Denver and Colorado Springs, Larkspur historically has been a spot wherever radical spell to get distant from it all.

Nestled successful a heavy wooded area, the assemblage feels similar a upland haven, though it’s minutes from Interstate 25, says Inger Hiller, 8z existent property agent. “People privation their abstraction to beryllium arsenic serene arsenic it perchance tin be.”

The Douglas County municipality has agelong appealed to retirees but precocious has drawn much young professionals with families, she says. Hiller has lived successful the Castle Rock country since 2009 and focuses connected existent property successful Castle Rock and Larkspur.

The assemblage is portion of the Douglas County School District.

Why Larkspur appeals

Larkspur offers accepted suburban neighborhoods with old-growth conifer trees. “It feels beauteous secluded and gives radical that feeling of privateness that mightiness beryllium lacking successful much accepted neighborhoods,” Hiller says.

With small caller construction, request for the fewer existing homes is driving prices up, she says.

While determination are homes successful the $600,000 range, the mean terms for a location successful Larkspur is $900,000.

Larkspur was the lone assemblage extracurricular Jefferson County to marque Zillow’s database of the apical 10 metro Denver markets. Zillow, a Seattle-based existent property hunt engine, studied 50 cities and neighborhoods successful metro Denver to measurement location worth alteration betwixt June 30 and June 30, 2020.

A tendency for much abstraction drove galore location purchases during the pandemic, and Larkspur income were nary exception, Hiller says.

“Larkspur appeals to radical who are moving remotely. Some commute to Denver oregon Colorado Springs, but present they tin enactment successful the bureau a mates of days a week and past enactment the different days remotely.”

Most of the houses for merchantability successful Larkspur request to beryllium updated, Hiller says. Many homes were built successful the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s and request updates, Hiller says. But the request for repairs oregon updates isn’t slowing sales.

“For a agelong time, Larkspur has been a sleepy municipality with a sleepy market,” Hiller says. “Now it’s caught up with the different metro areas, and properties are getting snatched up successful a weekend.”

Small municipality feel

Locally-owned restaurants and shops capable Larkspur’s downtown, and its determination astir 15 minutes from Castle Rock offers residents further entree to shopping, restaurants, and different amenities and services.

The Larkspur Autumn Arts & Crafts Fest draws visitors successful September.

While the Colorado Renaissance Festival typically draws thousands of play visitors from mid-June done August. The festival features much than 200 artisan shops and hundreds of costumed performers.

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