At a moment agents are sensing unusual demand for ranch plans and for others that have a primary suite on the main level, veteran agent Ali Van Westenberg has one of those to show on Denver’s 17th Avenue Parkway, four blocks from City Park.

“There’s a pent-up demand for empty nest plans,” said Van Westenberg, with Keller Williams Real Estate. “A lot of those buyers were put off by COVID, and then rates went up. Now, they’re saying, ‘We’ve got to do something’.”

PARK HILL

She raves about this 1920s-era neighborhood, not far from the Museum of Nature and Science, where she said residents like their schools as well as the walk to the park, following 17th’s tree-lined esplanade.

The broader Park Hill area extending north has Park Hill Elementary a few blocks away, prominent churches along 17th and along Montview Boulevard, and one of those neighborhood shopping streets a mile northeast at Kearney and east 22nd Avenue, with dining options including Bistro Vendôme, one of the town’s best-rated French restaurants.

Van Westenberg said the buyers who were the first residents of this area in the Roaring 20s were looking to entertain, and that this plan, with a distinctive Tudor brick exterior that stands out on an attractive block, is beckoning for guests. Its street face is intricately detailed, including a Romanesque arch across the entry. The sellers redid the front yard with a professional xeriscape.

The home at 4621 E. 17th Avenue Parkway, dated 1923, delivers 2,681 square feet finished, with two bedrooms and two baths. That’s counting the large primary as a single bedroom. However, Van Westenberg said some visitors have asked whether the seller would consider reconfiguring that as two main-floor bedrooms — a possibility.

“It’s got grand living and dining areas, very spacious,” she added.  

Those are daylit and have a French door opening to a patio, and there are some period details — wide open, arched passageways flanking the fireplace that link the entertaining areas, along with a big entry foyer and a swinging door between dining room and kitchen.

The design was updated over the past decade with baths and the primary suite all showing contemporary. The kitchen has good counterspace in white granite tops, with a chef’s range and dual ovens. There’s a breakfast nook adjacent, and a study, both generously windowed and overlooking the yard.

2-CAR GARAGE

There’s also a detached 2-car garage that loads from the street.  As on typical city blocks, this one has an alley in the back, and there’s a double gate from there into the backyard that makes for a third parking space, where the seller has kept a truck.

Van Westenberg is one of the number of agents seeing a pickup in market activity now, as rates on 30-year fixed mortgages flirt with the high-5% range, with many reporting multiple offers on properties that show well. She’s seeing plenty of interest in this plan, with some buyers returning for second looks. Nevertheless, she’ll have it open from 1-3 p.m. Sunday.

OPEN THIS SUNDAY:

WHERE:  4621 E. 17th Avenue Parkway, Denver; on Colorado Boulevard, head north past E. Colfax, continue north three blocks, turn right on E. 17th and continue east 4 blocks to Cherry St. Home is on the north side of the parkway.

SIZE: 2 bedroom/2 bath, 2,681 square feet, 2-car garage.

PRICE: $997,000  

OPEN:  1-3 p.m. on Sunday 

WEB: VWPhomes.com 

AGENT:  Ali Van Westenberg, 303-601-0260