As the Denver Nuggets, Denver Broncos and Colorado Avalanche fans celebrate winning seasons so far, local sports stores are ready with all the gear. The Broncos have the best record in the NFL and haven’t lost at home this season. The Avs have the best record on the ice and the Nuggets are tied for fifth best in the league.

All those Ws are also a win for local businesses.

Derek Friedman, the owner of all four Sportsfan locations, says business has been booming. Friedman added excitement has been in the air all year long, even in the off-season. As the local teams are playing well, it’s also paying off at his stores.

“It’s always terrific when the local sports teams are playing awesome, and as you may or may not have heard, November was a huge month,” said Friedman.

It was also a record-setting month. In November, the Broncos, Avs and Nuggets combined for a record of 26-3-2. Online statisticians say that’s the best combined percentage by a trio of teams in a metro area in a month in the history of those leagues.

“All of the teams kind of humming at the same time, but anytime that you have a championship, as we’ve recently have and maybe we’ll have shortly, there’s, there’s a ton of excitement, and people just needing to get stuff,” said Friedman.

Whether it’s buying that Broncos jersey during their winning streak or rocking a jersey of one of the Avs best stars, Friedman said fans are finding exactly what they need for the next game.

“Jokic, obviously the best player in the world and we’ve got this special hoodie here,” said Friedman.

Friedman said it’s been difficult to keep up with the demand, but they’re replenishing their stock as quickly as they can.

“As these teams do so well, they need to get the gear. so that means the jerseys, the hoodies, and then as we head into holiday season, it gets especially ramped up,” said Friedman.

Friedman is also encouraging holiday shoppers to shop early for the perfect Christmas item for their family or loved one.

Metro Denver’s housing market usually slows around the holidays, and for the second year in a row, November experienced a big drop in both new listings and sales, according to a monthly update from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors.

Sellers put 2,620 homes on the market last month, which is 41.4% fewer than the 4,470 listed in October. For the year, new listings are down 4.6%. A year ago, the monthly drop was almost identical at 41.5%, with the annual change up 1%.

Buyers also continue to hold back. Closings fell 23.4% month-over-month and are down 13.2% year-over-year in November. That contrasts with monthly declines of around 16% the prior two Novembers.

With new listings down more than sales, the inventory of homes and condos on the market fell 15.9% in November to 10,506. The inventory remains up 12.8% from the same month a year ago.

Rather than viewing the soft numbers as signs of a breakdown, they should be looked at as a market taking its normal seasonal break, according to comments included in the report.

“It’s not that sellers don’t desire to sell their current home and move, it’s that they don’t desire to part with a low APR rate on their current mortgage and trade it for a rate that could be three to four times higher,” said Susan Thayer, a member of the DMAR Market Trends Committee and an area Realtor, in comments included with the report.

Likewise, it isn’t that homebuyers don’t trust the homebuying process as much as they may not trust the state of the economy.

“Sellers who desire to sell and price their homes accordingly will find there are still plenty of buyers out there – even in the top price range of our market,” Thayer said.

Listings took a median of 36 days on the market in November, up from 28 days a year earlier. But attracting a buyer in today’s market is only half the battle. Close to 17% of sellers in Denver had a pending sales contract fall through in October, according to the real estate firm Redfin. That is above the U.S. average of 15.1%, and sits between San Diego and Phoenix in the rankings.

Aside from uncertainty, buyers may also be sensing that a long-awaited pivot in home prices might be underway. The median price of a single-family home that sold in November was $640,000, down 1.5% from November and up 0.8% from a year earlier.

A reversal is more evident in condo and townhome prices, which are down 2% on the month and 7.3% on the year to $380,000. Higher HOA fees and more borrowing restrictions have made attached properties less appealing, even though they are more affordable on the surface.

Combine the drop in sales and the mix of homes sold, and November’s sales volume was down 25.6% from October and 11.3% a year earlier.