Wellington grows up: Larimer County town sees home prices soar as housing stock upgrades

WELLINGTON — Seventeen years ago, when Kareen Kinzli Larsen started selling real estate with the Kinzli Team at Re/Max Alliance in Wellington, the town was at the start of its first major spurt of housing growth. That trend has continued, with a mid-2000s interruption, and it has Wellington on the cusp of what could be its next big explosion.

Larsen’s family has been selling real estate in Wellington since the 1980s. She moved back there in 1999, became a certified Realtor and joined the business. In those days, Wellington was just building its first higher-density residential neighborhood.…