Colorado’s divorce home-selling team

The team Colorado divorcing homeowners call first to sell the house

Selling a house in a divorce is our specialty, not a sideline. The Kenna Real Estate Group teamed up with Damon L. Chavez, Certified Real Estate Divorce Specialist and Certified Residential Appraiser, to build one team that sells divorce listings every month, from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs: more than ten divorce home sales in the last twelve months between us, and a free workshop that has taught hundreds of Colorado homeowners what happens to the house. Two owners who do not agree, two attorneys, a court deadline, and a house that has to be priced by data: that is the job, and it is the only job on this page. Our divorce practice is led by a Certified Real Estate Divorce Specialist and backed by the team that founded Colorado’s free divorce workshop.

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Designated

Certified Real Estate Divorce Specialist

Damon L. Chavez leads the practice: the designation, collaborative-divorce training, and an appraiser’s license.

Neutral

One valuation, both spouses, same moment

Written Smart Pricing Report to both sides, both attorneys copied, no carried messages.

Court-ready

Stipulated and court-ordered sales

Listing terms, reduction schedules and disbursement instructions written the way the court expects.

Local

Highlands Ranch to Denver

Dedicated pages for the places we work, with the court that handles the case.

The short answer

We sell homes for divorcing couples as a neutral, and we help the spouse who is keeping the house get the valuation and the loan right. The practice is led by Damon L. Chavez, a Certified Real Estate Divorce Specialist and Level I and II Collaborative Divorce Professional who is an affiliate partner of The Kenna Real Estate Group (his license is with RE/MAX Professionals). Brian Lee Burke, team leader of Kenna at Keller Williams DTC, founded the free Colorado divorce workshop. Every page on this site is built around that one specialty.

Who handles a divorce file here

Damon L. Chavez

Certified Real Estate Divorce Specialist · Collaborative Divorce Professional I and II · REALTOR® since 2000 · Certified residential appraiser

Damon leads the divorce listing practice. More than 12 years working with divorcing couples, a licensed appraiser’s eye on value, and collaborative-divorce training that keeps a sale from turning into a second case. He is an affiliate partner of The Kenna Real Estate Group; his own license is with RE/MAX Professionals (Colorado House Finders Team, Highlands Ranch). His credentials are listed with Colorado Collaborative Divorce Professionals and South Denver Collaborative Divorce.

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Brian Lee Burke

Team leader and employing broker, REALTOR® · Founder of the Colorado divorce workshop · Kenna Real Estate Group at Keller Williams DTC

Brian has sold Colorado homes since 2002, spent 25 years in construction before and alongside it, and built the free workshop after watching people decide the house without anyone explaining the math. He has personally listed and sold divorce homes across the Front Range and runs the discovery calls.

Book a 20-minute call Brian’s page

What we do on a divorce file

Neutral listing for both spouses

Same written valuation, listing draft, net sheet and closing statement to both spouses and both attorneys at the same time. Every email copies both. Impasses go to counsel, not to a side.

How a divorce sale works

Court-ordered and stipulated sales

Listing terms, automatic price-reduction schedules, repair caps, minimum offers and disbursement instructions written so a judge, a title company and two attorneys can follow them.

Court-ordered sales

Valuation for a buyout

A written Smart Pricing Report with comps, adjustments and a condition note, delivered to both sides; an independent appraisal when either side disputes it. Damon is a licensed appraiser, so the number holds up.

Appraisal vs CMA

When one spouse will not cooperate

A refusal to sign, a refusal to allow showings, a refusal to agree on price. There is a process for each, and it runs through the attorneys and the court, not through us picking a side.

If one spouse refuses

The keeping spouse’s loan

Pre-approval on the buyout numbers before the decree sets a deadline, with Mike Oswald at Rate or any lender you choose.

The buyout math

Buying again after

One income, support that counts, the old mortgage on your credit, CHFA and metroDPA help, and the full MLS on kennarealestate.com.

Buying after divorce

Where we work

A dedicated page for each place, with the court that hears the case and what is particular about that market.

How a divorce listing runs with us, step by step

One conversation, both spouses welcome. A 20-minute discovery call, separately or together. Book it.
The number. Smart Pricing Report to both spouses at the same time; appraisal if either disputes it.
The paper. Stipulation-ready listing terms your attorneys can drop into the agreement or the court can order.
The listing. Staging for a half-occupied home, showing rules that respect the spouse still there, no “motivated” language anywhere.
The offers. Lowballs answered with the appraisal; a written log of every showing and offer either side can hand to the court.
The closing. Disbursement exactly as the stipulation or decree says; proceeds held by the title company when the case is not final.

Honest disclosures

Damon L. Chavez is licensed with RE/MAX Professionals and works with us as an affiliate partner. He is not a Kenna employee.
Only Brian Burke is a REALTOR® on the Kenna team; other team members are licensed Colorado real estate agents. Damon is a REALTOR® through his own brokerage.
We do not claim designations we do not hold. Damon’s are listed on third-party sites linked above; no other team member currently holds a divorce designation.
The team’s divorce-sale count is our own tally, not an audited figure.

The divorce real estate division

One specialty. One designated specialist. One team behind him.

Damon L. Chavez is a Certified Real Estate Divorce Specialist and a Level I and II Collaborative Divorce Professional, a REALTOR® since 2000, a Certified Residential Appraiser, and has worked with divorcing couples for more than 12 years. He leads the divorce listing practice as an affiliate partner of The Kenna Real Estate Group; his own license is with RE/MAX Professionals, and we say so on every page. Brian Lee Burke leads the Kenna team and founded the free Colorado divorce workshop. Between them, by our count, the team closed more than ten divorce sales in the past year.

Designations verified on third-party listings, not just here

Neutral: one valuation, both spouses, both attorneys, at the same time

Court-ordered and stipulated sales handled the way the court expects

A licensed appraiser’s eye on value, plus a written Smart Pricing Report

Collaborative-divorce trained, so the sale does not restart the fight

A live person answers 303-955-4220. Ask for the divorce team.

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Questions people ask on this page

Do we both have to hire you?

On a sale, both owners sign the listing agreement, so both spouses engage us, usually as a transaction broker for the sale. For a buyout valuation, either spouse can ask and we send the report to both.

Can you represent just me?

After the decree, or when the decree awards the house to you alone, yes. During a joint sale, one-sided representation is what makes the other spouse and the court distrust the process.

What does it cost?

The valuation and the advice are free. On a sale we are paid at closing like any agent; Colorado listing-side commissions average about 2.8 percent. No fee if the house does not sell.

Do you work with our attorneys?

Yes, and we prefer it. Both attorneys get the same documents and the same log. What we provide counsel.

Who actually shows up?

Damon on the divorce listing side, Brian on the discovery calls and the workshop, and the Kenna team for showings, staging and buyers. You will know who is doing what before you sign anything.

Plain-language education, not advice. Divorce Decisions is published by The Kenna Real Estate Group at Keller Williams DTC, a real estate team. Nothing here is legal, tax, lending or financial advice, and reading it does not create any professional relationship. Colorado law and lender rules change; confirm anything that matters to your case with a licensed Colorado attorney, a tax professional, and your lender. See our full disclaimer.

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