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Colorado real estate forms: what each one is for

The Commission-approved forms a Colorado agent touches on a residential deal, what each one actually does, and when in the transaction it comes up.

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Colorado brokers work from Commission-approved forms, which is a genuine advantage: the documents are standard, the other side knows them, and the structure of a transaction is legible from the paperwork. The cost is that there are a lot of them, and the ones you touch rarely are the ones you have to look up.

How the forms system works

The Colorado Real Estate Commission approves the standard forms used in residential transactions, and the Division of Real Estate publishes them. Brokers use them for standard transactions, and versions are revised periodically — which is why the version reference matters and why the Division, not a vendor and not this page, is the authority on what is current.

Form names carry a number and usually a revision suffix. NTC43R-6-16 is the Inspection Resolution, revised 6/16. When a form is revised, the number stays and the suffix moves.

The contract and negotiation

FormWhat it does
CBS1 Contract to Buy and Sell Real Estate (Residential)The purchase contract. Terms, price, inclusions, financing, and the Dates and Deadlines table that drives the whole transaction.
CP40 CounterproposalChanges terms on a contract that has not yet been accepted. The instrument of negotiation — and the place deadline errors are most often introduced.
AE41 Agreement to Amend/Extend ContractChanges a term or moves a deadline after the contract is executed. The only clean way a deadline moves.

Listing and representation

FormWhat it does
LC50 Exclusive Right-To-Sell Listing ContractThe listing agreement between broker and seller.
BC60 Exclusive Right-To-Buy Listing ContractThe buyer representation agreement between broker and buyer.

Disclosures

FormWhat it does
SPD Seller’s Property Disclosure (Residential)The seller’s disclosure of the property’s condition, section by section — structure, systems, environmental, and other known adverse material facts.
SF94 Square Footage DisclosureStates how square footage was measured and what the source was.
SWA35 Source of Water AddendumDiscloses where the property’s water comes from. Consequential in much of Colorado.

Objections and resolutions

Each contingency in the contract has its own notice, and using the right one matters — these are the forms that exercise a right within a deadline.

FormWhat it does
NTC43 Inspection Objection NoticeThe buyer’s written objection to what the inspection found.
NTC43R Inspection ResolutionWhat the parties agreed to do about the objection, signed by both.
TON45 Title-Related Objection NoticeThe buyer’s objection to something in record or off-record title.
AVN44 Appraised Value Objection NoticeThe buyer’s objection on appraised value.

Closing

FormWhat it does
CL8 Closing InstructionsEngages and instructs the closing company. Signed by buyer, seller and the closing company.

Which form for which situation

The situationThe form
The inspection found things the buyer wants addressedNTC43, then NTC43R
Both sides agreed to push the closing date back a weekAE41
The seller wants to change the price before acceptingCP40
The appraisal came in below the contract priceAVN44
There is an easement in the title commitment the buyer cannot live withTON45
Taking a new listingLC50, plus SPD, SF94 and SWA35 as they apply
Signing a new buyer clientBC60

Generating them without retyping the deal

Nexus renders every form above as an exact replica of the Commission-approved document, filled from what the transaction already knows — the parties, the property, the price, the dates — and routes it for signature in the order the document requires. The replicas are checked against the published PDFs page by page, because a form that is nearly right is worse than no form at all. See Colorado transaction management.

Questions

The Colorado Division of Real Estate publishes them at dre.colorado.gov. That is the authority on which version is current; software vendors track it, including this one.

For standard residential transactions, Commission-approved forms are what Colorado brokers use. The rules around form use, and the narrow situations that sit outside them, are a question for your managing broker and the Commission’s own rules.

Timing. A counterproposal changes terms before the contract is accepted; an amend/extend changes them after it is executed. Using the wrong one is a real error, not a formality.

Yes, electronic signature is standard practice in Colorado residential transactions. What matters in practice is the order of signing — many of these documents require a specific sequence.

Generate the form from the deal.

Exact replicas of the Commission-approved forms, filled from the transaction and signed in the right order.

Free plan, no card. Nexus is a Colorado company and the product is built on the Commission-approved forms Colorado agents already use.