After nearly two decades of steadily climbing — and often skyrocketing — real-estate prices, property owners in Colorado’s resort communities are seeing values plummet.
In such ski-resort counties as Pitkin, Eagle, Summit, Routt and San Miguel, homeowners recently fielded local assessor reports that pushed their home values down by more than 20 percent.
“Some people have come […]

The latest federal statistics on housing prices in hundreds of local markets reveal patterns that haven’t been making the nightly news: While on a national basis, homeowners have lost more than $1 trillion in equity since the end of the boom, the overwhelming majority of local markets continue to show net cumulative value growth over […]