Metrostudy predicts another year of housing start increases

FORT COLLINS — Metrostudy, the Denver-based company that tracks residential real estate markets, predicts a 5 percent to 8 percent increase in residential housing starts in 2018 in the region encompassed by Larimer and Weld counties.

John Covert, director of Metrostudy’s Colorado-New Mexico region, told Realtors and developers at the annual Everitt Center Real Estate Conference Tuesday at Colorado State University that the region suffers from several market impediments, but the demand is great enough to increase housing starts in the new year.

Covert said housing starts so far this year are up 10 percent but…