Sixteen neighborhoods, described honestly

$615K – $1.65M

Lower Highland sits on the bluff across the Platte from downtown. The street grid is pre-automobile and narrow, so the newer housing here is vertical: three-storey infill townhomes with rooftop decks that look straight back at the skyline.

$795K – $1.45M

Berkeley runs north of Kirkby Street, a low-rise commercial spine of single-storey storefronts. The housing stock is mostly bungalows on 6,250 sq ft lots, with an increasing number of scrape-and-rebuild modern houses and half-duplexes.

$1.27M – $2.40M

Wash Park wraps a 165-acre park with two lakes and a Depression-era boathouse. The blocks east and west of it are large by Denver standards, which is why the neighborhood carries so many substantial additions and whole-house renovations.

$525K – $1.88M

A tight grid between Colfax and 6th Avenue with mature street trees and alley-loaded garages. The scale is consistent — two storeys, brick, close to the sidewalk — which makes the modern insertions here read as deliberate rather than accidental.

$1.02M – $1.85M

Cherry Creek North is a low-rise retail district on a numbered grid, ringed by the highest-density residential redevelopment in the city outside downtown. Expect elevator buildings, walled courtyards and a great deal of new construction.

$985K – $1.69M

Park Hill was laid out on a parkway plan, so the arterials are boulevards with planted medians rather than commercial strips. Blocks are long, lots are deep, and the tree canopy is among the oldest in the city.

$749K – $1.13M

North of Highland and west of the rail corridor, Sunnyside has changed faster than any neighborhood in this list. Its 1920s cottage stock now sits beside flat-roofed modern duplexes, sometimes on the same block face.

$885K – $1.18M

A small, flat, walkable district organised around Old South Ashdon Street — three blocks of independent storefronts and a Sunday farmers market. Housing is modest in footprint and increasingly heavily renovated.

$1.04M – $2.15M

Denver's largest lake sits at the centre of the neighborhood, and the streets that face it carry a price premium measured in the hundreds of thousands. Behind them, the grid returns to ordinary bungalow scale.

$645K – $1.15M

The River North Art District is a converted industrial quarter: brick warehouses, rail spurs and, since 2015, a great deal of new mid-rise construction. The residential product here is overwhelmingly attached — lofts and condominiums rather than houses.

$1.98M – $3.45M

Hilltop occupies the high ground east of Colorado Boulevard on unusually generous lots. Its 1930s–50s houses are large to begin with, so the modern work here tends to be whole-house reconstruction rather than addition.

$839K – $1.05M

A 174-house tract built 1954–57 to designs by H.B. Wolff, and the most intact mid-century modern enclave in Denver. Post-and-beam construction, low-slope roofs, floor-to-ceiling glass at the rear, and a strict original palette.