Berthoud sits in the housing market’s sweet spot

A quick glance at average sales prices for Northern Colorado last year might make one wonder what’s up with Berthoud? After all, every local submarket in the region saw average sales prices increase. All except Berthoud, where average sales prices declined 3 percent.

But there’s another side to the Berthoud story. And it says a great deal about the potential direction of the area housing market in the foreseeable future.

Most notably, total home sales in Berthoud soared from 218 in 2016 to 451 last year — a…