Home prices, sales soar – and, yes, it’s weird

Home-selling prices in the four-county BizWest region (Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld) continue in uncharted territory with double-digit increases in both home sales and median selling price. The rate of increase actually slowed a bit in April with a 12.3 percent increase in median price, but the number hit $300,000 for the first time, boosting the year-to-date median price to $294,000.

By areas, the price-increase parade is headed by Larimer County which shows a 21.1 percent increase in the median price for the year to date. This certainly would seem to be an unsustainable rate of…