If you have orders to the Air Force Academy, you are going to get a lot of advice about Colorado Springs. Most of it is written for Fort Carson.

That matters, because Fort Carson is on the south side of the metro and the Academy is on the north. A …

Every December, a 457-foot star lights up on the side of Sundance Mountain and stays lit through New Year's Day. It has done this every year since 1935, when a utility manager and a restaurateur built it out of thirty wooden posts and ninety-one light bulbs to give a …

The good news for Monument sellers: your market held up better than anywhere around you. Values slipped about half a percent over the past year while Castle Rock, Parker, Highlands Ranch and Lone Tree all fell 2% to 3%, and roughly 26% more homes sold than the year before.

The …

The honest answer is that "Monument" is too broad a question. Homes here run from the low $400,000s for a new duplex to well over $2.5 million for a custom estate on five acres, and two houses of identical size can differ by six figures based on lot …

Something unusual is happening in Monument, and it runs against the story in the rest of the south metro.

While home values slipped 2% to 3% across Douglas County over the past year, Monument held nearly flat — and did about 26% more business.

Here are the numbers and what they …

"Monument" is not one place. It is a dozen distinct communities spread across the Palmer Divide, and they differ far more than buyers expect — a quarter-acre lot in a metro district on one side of I-25, a 2.7-acre lot with no metro district on the other, at overlapping prices …

Here is the number that decides whether Monument is right for you, and almost nobody leads with it: Monument averages roughly 111 inches of snow a year. Colorado Springs, twenty miles down I-25, averages about 33 inches.

Three times the snow, twenty minutes apart. That single fact explains the pine …

Monument's population grew about 33% in five years, from 10,399 at the 2020 census to an estimated 13,813 in 2025. That growth had to go somewhere, and it went into a handful of specific communities east and west of I-25.

Here is who is actually building in …

Two buyers tour Monument on the same Saturday. Both look at $750,000 homes. Similar size, similar finish, four miles apart.

One of those homes carries a metro district mill levy of zero. The other carries 69.261 mills.

Same price. Same town. A difference of roughly $3,200 a …

Almost every real estate page about Monument says the same thing: Lewis-Palmer District 38 is "Accredited with Distinction."

That is no longer accurate, and it is worth knowing before you make a six- or seven-figure decision based on it.

Here is the current picture, the boundary most buyers get wrong …