The 30-year rate jumped from 6.95% to 7.28% in two weeks, adding about $123 a month on a typical Broomfield loan. Here is when to lock during your Colorado contract, how long the lock should run, and what to do if it expires.

More than 16,000 Boulder homes now sit inside the city's wildfire zone. Here is how to insure one before your contract deadlines, when the Colorado FAIR Plan steps in, and what the fire code costs you the first time you reroof.