Two days after putting their Fort Collins home on the market, Jordan and Sarah Lewis got an offer that was $7,000 over their asking price. It came on a Friday, two days after Gov. Jared Polis issued a statewide stay-at-home order because of the new coronavirus.
The Lewises didn’t wait for the weekend even though at least a half-dozen potential buyers were scheduled to check out their home. They took the offer. And exactly one week later, after a furiously fast house hunt, they put an offer on a home in Littleton so they could be closer to Jordan’s new job.
“Yeah, it’s a very weird time to have to go through this,” said Sarah Lewis. “… If we had the choice, I don’t think we would choose to be selling our house and buying right now, but we just need to because of Jordan’s job, so we’re making it work.”
Strange things are happening in the real estate market during the outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Amid company shutdowns and growing unemployment, Colorado’s real estate market continues to buy and sell, and adapt. Realtors, after all, are among the “critical businesses” allowed to operate as normal, though at a safe social distance, of course.
