The State of Colorado’s Housing Market
Prices, inventory, demand, affordability, buyer behavior, mortgage rates, and construction: a data-driven read on what's shaping Colorado housing.
Cooper Thayer · Housing Market Researcher · Broker · Author
Housing, explained through data.
Keynotes and briefings built around your audience, not a generic market update.
Discuss an EventSelected speaking engagements
2024 · 2025 · 2026
Colorado Association of REALTORS® Economic Summit
Invited back three years running as Keynote Speaker for “The State of Colorado’s Housing Market.”
- 2025
Rocky Mountain Summit · Keller Williams Colorado Region
Panelist · “Master Pricing Strategies in a Slower Market”
- 2025
Colorado Broker Summit · Keller Williams Colorado Region
Presenter · “Colorado Market Update with Cooper Thayer”
- 2024
HB23-1253 State Legislative Task Force · Corporate Housing Ownership
Presenter · “The Colorado Housing Market: Analysis and Trends”
- 2023
Colorado Association of Tax Appraisers (CATA) Conference
Keynote Speaker · “Market Trends (From a Real Estate Nerd’s Perspective)”
Speaking topics
Current programs.
Six presentation concepts that are ready to book. Each one can also be built into a custom session around a specific audience, geography, or question.
Housing as Economic Infrastructure
How housing availability and affordability affect workforce mobility, talent attraction, economic development, and regional competitiveness.
Why Mortgage Rates Move
A practical explanation of mortgage pricing, Treasury yields, MBS markets, and monetary policy, and why today's households feel every basis point.
The Economics of Housing Supply
What the data shows about production, development feasibility, land use, and the gap between policy goals and housing economics.
Colorado’s Condo Problem
Why Colorado's condo market has stalled: construction economics, attached-housing production, HOA costs, insurance, and defect policy.
What the Transaction Data Actually Says
Original analysis of pricing strategy, buyer behavior, market timing, concessions, and other signals hidden inside residential transaction data.
Built for the room
Speaking for different audiences.
The material changes with the audience. Every session draws on the same research, focused on what a specific group needs to understand.
Business & Economic Development
Housing affordability, workforce mobility, migration, regional competitiveness, and consumer conditions.
Local Government & Public Sector
Housing supply, growth, property values, affordability, development patterns, and municipal economics.
Housing, Land Use & Development
Supply, development feasibility, transaction signals, housing shortages, and condo and attached-housing production.
Banking & Mortgage
Mortgage rates, credit conditions, affordability, buyer demand, transaction volume, and household finances.
Real Estate
Market structure, pricing, buyer behavior, inventory, mortgage rates, and transaction strategy.
Academic & Professional
Original housing research, applied market analysis, public policy, market methodology, and data interpretation.
Why the presentations are different
The starting point is the data.
Presentations aren't built by repackaging national headlines. They start with residential transaction data, listing and inventory records, mortgage-rate and financial-market data, demographic and economic data, and housing-cost, development, and policy research, worked the same way for a client engagement or a published report.
That includes reports like The Anatomy of a Home Sale, an analysis of nearly 40,000 Colorado closings, and The Language of a Listing, a study of what MLS description language reveals about pricing and seller leverage across nearly 39,000 closed listings.
A presentation can apply that same discipline to a specific geography, membership base, or market question, rather than a generic national narrative.
Signature curriculum
Mastering Market Trends.
Based on Cooper's book, Mastering Market Trends is an established curriculum that helps real estate professionals interpret housing data, understand how interest rates affect demand, read pricing and inventory signals, and communicate market conditions accurately, rather than repeating statistics they don't fully understand. Participants learn to define the right market, reconcile conflicting indicators, and translate evidence into clearer guidance.
Signature keynote
A presentation-length introduction to the market-literacy framework.
Applied training
Guided instruction that helps participants define the right question, select the right measures, and translate evidence into defensible guidance.
Flagship workshop
A hands-on lab covering market measures, case studies, pricing, supply, demand, affordability, and communication.
Custom curriculum
A tailored course, training series, market briefing, or case-study program for a brokerage, association, university, or company.
Formats
Ways to book Cooper.
KeynotesConference SessionsExecutive BriefingsWorkshopsWebinarsPanelsAssociation / Member ProgramsCustom Market Briefings
Presentation depth and data can be adjusted for a 20–30 minute briefing, a 45–60 minute conference session, a longer workshop, or an executive or board briefing.
Speaking record
Selected speaking engagements.
Colorado Association of REALTORS® · Economic Summit
Keynote Speaker · “The State of Colorado’s Housing Market”
Rocky Mountain Summit · Keller Williams Colorado Region
Panelist · “Master Pricing Strategies in a Slower Market”
Colorado Broker Summit · Keller Williams Colorado Region
Presenter · “Colorado Market Update with Cooper Thayer”
HB23-1253 State Legislative Task Force · Corporate Housing Ownership
Presenter · “The Colorado Housing Market: Analysis and Trends”
Colorado Association of Tax Appraisers (CATA) Conference
Keynote Speaker · “Market Trends (From a Real Estate Nerd’s Perspective)”
About Cooper
Why Cooper.
Cooper Thayer is a Colorado housing-market researcher, residential real estate broker, and author whose work focuses on understanding how housing markets actually function through transaction-level data, economics, consumer behavior, and public policy.
He has been licensed in Colorado since 2008, and his brokerage practice, The Thayer Group, has closed more than 780 transactions and $412M in volume across 36+ Colorado communities. He currently serves as Chief Market Strategist for Keller Williams Realty's Colorado Region, turning transaction-level data into pricing and positioning guidance for agents statewide, and as 2026 Treasurer of the Denver Metro Association of REALTORS® Board of Directors. He is also incoming Chair (2026–27) of the Colorado Association of REALTORS® Legislative Policy Committee.
He is the author of Mastering Market Trends, publishing August 18, 2026, and holds a B.S. in Business Administration with emphases in Finance and Real Estate from the University of Colorado Boulder's Leeds School of Business.
Custom presentations
Your audience. Your market. Your question.
Most presentations shouldn't start from a canned deck. Cooper builds sessions around what a specific group in a specific room needs to understand.
- The organization’s geography
- Its members or stakeholders
- A specific housing or economic question
- An industry issue
- A conference theme
- A current piece of original research
Frequently asked questions.
Who is Cooper Thayer, and who does he speak to?
Cooper Thayer is a Colorado housing-market researcher, residential real estate broker, and author. He speaks to a wide range of audiences beyond real estate, including economic-development organizations, chambers of commerce, municipal and county government, planners, housing organizations, banks and mortgage lenders, home builders, assessors and government-finance professionals, attorneys, universities, and professional associations.
What can a presentation be built around?
Most presentations are custom-built around a specific geography, professional audience, conference theme, current market question, or piece of original research, rather than delivered from a generic market-update deck.
Where has Cooper spoken before?
Cooper has been a repeat keynote speaker at the Colorado Association of REALTORS® Economic Summit (2024, 2025, and 2026), and has also spoken at the Rocky Mountain Summit, the Colorado Broker Summit, a Colorado state legislative task force on corporate housing ownership, and the Colorado Association of Tax Appraisers conference.
What speaking formats are available?
Keynotes, conference sessions, executive briefings, workshops, webinars, panels, association and member programs, and custom market briefings. Depth and data can be adjusted for a 20–30 minute briefing, a 45–60 minute conference session, a longer workshop, or an executive or board briefing.
What is Mastering Market Trends?
Mastering Market Trends is Cooper's book and signature curriculum. It's available as a keynote, applied training, flagship workshop, or custom curriculum for brokerages, associations, universities, and companies.
How do I book Cooper for a speaking engagement?
Use the contact page, or reach out directly to inbox@cooperthayer.com or (720) 666-7380. Share who will be in the room and what you want them to better understand, and Cooper will suggest a few presentation concepts tailored to your audience.
Planning a 2027 event?
Tell me who will be in the room and what you want them to better understand. I'm happy to suggest a few presentation concepts tailored to your audience.
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