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Denver, Colorado · Since 1995
Real estate
results
We help builders, developers, and owners build wealth, increase cash flow, and create excellent experiences through residential, land, and commercial real estate.
- 2,637+
- Homes and home sitesAcross engagements that publish a count
- 41
- Communities and partnershipsDevelopment, sales, marketing, review
- 13
- Colorado countiesFront Range, foothills, Western Slope
- 31
- Years in businessBrokering and selling since 1995
What we do
In short
Gourmet Real Estate is a Denver-based real estate consultancy and brokerage founded in 1995. We work with homebuilders, land developers, and property owners across Colorado on land acquisition, development, on-site new home sales, marketing, and architectural review, and we have taken 41 communities from raw ground through sellout.
Most brokerages sell homes. We are usually hired earlier than that, when the question is still whether the deal works at all, and we stay through the last closing.
Services
01On-site sales
Dedicated teams in your sales center, selling your community as if the company were theirs. Hiring, training, management, and the reporting to prove it is working.
02Land acquisition and development
Finding the parcel, testing whether it pencils, and getting it from raw ground to entitled, buildable lots. A licensed civil engineer sits on the team.
03New home marketing
Positioning, pricing, and absorption strategy. The work that decides whether a community sells at the pace the pro forma assumed.
04Architectural review
Design guidelines and ARC administration that protect value across a community without turning every submittal into a fight.
05Brokerage
Residential, land, and commercial representation for owners and investors who want the analysis before the pitch.
Why builders call us
The sales center is where the pro forma meets reality
A development pro forma is a set of assumptions about pace and price. Everything upstream of the sales center is a bet on those two numbers, and everything downstream is a consequence of them. If absorption comes in slower than planned, carrying costs eat the return. If pricing is cut to protect pace, margin goes instead.
The people standing in the model home decide which way that goes. Not the brochure, not the ad spend, and not the website. Someone who can hold a qualified buyer through a nine month build cycle is worth more to a project than most of what sits in the marketing budget.
That is the part we were built to run. We hire the sales team, train it, manage it, and report on it, and we do it as a licensed brokerage rather than a marketing vendor, which means we carry the fiduciary obligation that comes with the license. Our employing broker license is on file with theColorado Division of Real Estate, and the firm is a member of the Home Builders Association of Metro Denver and the National Association of Home Builders.
Track record
41 communities across 13 Colorado counties
From 12 homes on a golf course in Thornton to 385 custom and semi-custom homes at Coal Creek Ranch. Infill rowhomes in Sloan's Lake, five-acre sites in Elbert County, and a ski resort in Steamboat Springs.
| Community | Location | County | Scope | Homes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coal Creek Ranch385 custom and semi-custom homes | Louisville | Boulder | Development, Sales, Marketing | 385 |
| Amrepco at BrandywineAmrepco250 single-family homes | Broomfield | Broomfield | Development, Sales, Marketing | 250 |
| Country Vista210 single-family homes | Adams County | Adams | Development, Sales, Marketing | 210 |
| Louisiana Purchase200 townhomes | Aurora | Arapahoe | Development, Sales, Marketing | 200 |
| Amrepco at Bradbury RanchAmrepco150 single-family homes | Parker | Douglas | Development, Sales, Marketing | 150 |
| The BroadlandsGolf course neighborhood and Parade of Homes site, 102 homes and lots | Broomfield | Broomfield | Architectural Review, Sales, Parade of Homes | 102 |
| Feather Ridge100 single-family semi-custom homes | Mead | Weld | Development, Sales, Marketing | 100 |
| Cherry Creek Crossing100+ semi-custom homes | El Paso County | El Paso | Development, Sales, Marketing | 100+ |
| MacKenzie at Bradbury Ranch90 single-family homes | Parker | Douglas | Development, Sales, Marketing | 90 |
| The Reserve at Cherryvale90 custom homes | Boulder County | Boulder | Development, Sales, Marketing | 90 |
Selected work
Three examples of what the work looks like
Different products fail differently. These are drawn from thefull portfolio and show the range the firm covers.
Coal Creek Ranch, Louisville
385 custom and semi-custom homes in Boulder County, taken from development through sellout. A community at that scale is a decade-long absorption problem, so pricing and lot premiums had to be managed as a schedule across the whole sellout rather than set once at opening. Scope covered development, sales, and marketing.
The Cove at Grant Ranch, Littleton
70 luxury low-maintenance waterfront homes in Jefferson County. Where lots differ this sharply, the premium schedule carries much of the revenue difference between an average sellout and a good one. Scope covered sales and marketing.
Wild Pointe Reserve, Elizabeth
Five-acre home sites in Elbert County with GJ Gardner. On acreage the first conversation is water, because a household-use-only well permit and one that allows irrigation and livestock are two different properties to sell. Scope covered sales.
The portfolio table lists all 41 engagements with location, county, scope, and unit count.
Questions builders and developers ask
What does Gourmet Real Estate do?
We are a Colorado real estate consultancy and brokerage. We work with homebuilders, land developers, and property owners on land acquisition, development, on-site new home sales, marketing, and architectural review. On a typical engagement we are involved before the land is purchased and stay through the final closing.
Do you work with builders who already have a sales team?
Yes. Some engagements are consulting only, where we assess a community's positioning, pricing, and absorption and hand back a plan your existing team executes. Others are full on-site representation where we hire, train, and manage the sales team ourselves. The right structure depends on how many communities you are running and whether you want to carry sales as a fixed cost.
How large a project do you take on?
Our portfolio runs from 12 single-family homes at Thorn Creek in Thornton to 385 custom and semi-custom homes at Coal Creek Ranch in Louisville. We have also handled single infill sites in Denver and a 250-home community in Broomfield. Size matters less than whether the project has a real problem to solve.
What geographies do you cover?
Colorado. Our completed work spans 13 counties, concentrated on the Front Range from Douglas County to Boulder County, plus foothills communities in Jefferson County, the Western Slope at Battlement Mesa, and resort work in Steamboat Springs and Red Feather Lakes.
Are you a brokerage or a marketing agency?
A licensed brokerage. Gourmet Real Estate holds Colorado employing broker license EC.040041562. That distinction matters because a broker owes clients fiduciary duties that a marketing vendor does not, and because our people can write and negotiate contracts rather than handing buyers off at the point of sale.
How long has the firm been operating?
Since 1995. Over that period we have handled development, sales, marketing, or architectural review for 41 Colorado communities and builder partnerships.
Sources and verification
- Colorado Division of Real Estate, Department of Regulatory AgenciesBrokerage and individual licence verification.
- Home Builders Association of Metro DenverMembership and Front Range market practice.
- National Association of Home BuildersIndustry standards referenced throughout the site.
- Colorado Department of Local AffairsCounty boundaries used in the portfolio table.
Written and reviewed by Jason August, President and Employing Broker, Colorado license ER.040029060.ยท