Downsizing to Highlands / LoHi: How to Right-Size Without Leaving Denver's Best Urban Neighborhood
The downsizing move to LoHi or Highlands comes from multiple directions. Long-term West Highland residents who want to reduce maintenance overhead can move to LoHi's contemporary townhomes while maintaining the neighborhood's 32nd Avenue character. Buyers from larger suburban homes who are choosing urban right-sizing as their Denver chapter arrive in LoHi specifically for the urban lifestyle access that their prior suburban home did not provide.
LoHi's contemporary townhome market, with product in the $600,000 to $900,000 range, provides maintenance-reduced ownership with rooftop decks, modern finishes, and the transit connectivity that many downsizers who are reducing car dependence specifically value. The ability to walk to Union Station for light rail travel to downtown Denver, the DTC, or the airport eliminates the car dependency that suburban alternatives require.
For buyers arriving from other Denver urban neighborhoods, the LoHi townhome downsize maintains the urban character and social lifestyle while reducing the maintenance overhead of Victorian single-family ownership. The trade-off is typically in private outdoor space: LoHi townhomes offer rooftop decks and minimal private yards rather than the residential gardens that larger Denver urban homes provide.
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