Median home price
$612K
Statewide · placeholder estimate
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· The 2026 Colorado Real Estate Report ·
Where Colorado housing is heading.
A read on the year ahead — Front Range price moves, mountain market divergence, and the rate-and-inventory signals that will drive 2026. Built from public data sources and on-the-ground notes from agents in our network.
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Annual 2026 Edition
Coverage CO Statewide
Format PDF
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By the numbers
Statewide signals at a glance.
Top-line indicators we'll dig into in the full report. Every value here is a placeholder until the final research lands.
Median days on market
21
Days, all property types · placeholder
YoY price change
+3.4%
Statewide median · placeholder
Active agents in network
—
Live count from our network
· All values are placeholder estimates ·
Metro snapshot
Five Colorado metros, one read each.
Where each market is headed in 2026, in a sentence. Numbers below are placeholder estimates.
Denver
80202- Median price
- $615K
- Days on market
- 18 days
Trend · Slightly cooling
Condos in LoDo turning faster than ranches in Park Hill.
· Placeholder estimate ·
Boulder
80302- Median price
- $985K
- Days on market
- 24 days
Trend · Tight, premium
Small inventory, high gravity — university and founders compete.
· Placeholder estimate ·
Colorado Springs
80906- Median price
- $475K
- Days on market
- 26 days
Trend · Stable
New builds in Briargate balancing tight resale stock.
· Placeholder estimate ·
Fort Collins
80525- Median price
- $565K
- Days on market
- 22 days
Trend · Steady
Old Town premium holds; Harmony master-plans absorb families.
· Placeholder estimate ·
Aurora
80014- Median price
- $525K
- Days on market
- 20 days
Trend · Strengthening
Cherry Creek school boundaries still a price-mover at the margin.
· Placeholder estimate ·
What's driving 2026
Four forces shaping Colorado housing this year.
Rates, inventory, in-migration, and the regional split between Front Range and mountain markets. Placeholder narrative — to be tightened before publication.
Interest rates
Rate path is the dominant variable
Mortgage rates set the ceiling on what most Colorado buyers can afford in 2026. Even small moves in the 30-year fixed compress or expand the qualifying buyer pool meaningfully.
Watch the spread between the 10-year Treasury and the 30-year mortgage — when the gap narrows, monthly payments improve faster than the headline rate suggests.
Inventory
Listings are climbing, but unevenly
Statewide active listings continue to recover from the 2022 lows, but the recovery is concentrated in suburbs and exurbs. Core urban inventory remains structurally tight.
New construction in Aurora, Loveland, and outer Colorado Springs is doing more of the work than resale — which keeps median prices flatter than transaction volume would imply.
In-migration
Net inbound has slowed but not reversed
Colorado is no longer the runaway destination it was in the 2020-2022 window, but net domestic migration is still positive. Job growth at Anschutz Medical Campus and along the I-25 tech corridor anchors demand.
Out-of-state buyers from California and Texas remain a meaningful share of high-end Boulder and Front Range purchases.
Regional split
Front Range and mountain markets diverge
Front Range markets behave like one market with local seasoning — rates and inventory drive most of the variance. Mountain resort markets march to a different drum: second-home demand, short-term rental rules, and global wealth flows.
Reading the right regional signal matters in 2026. A statewide headline obscures meaningful divergence between, say, Denver suburbs and Summit County.
· Our 2026 prediction ·
A flatter year for prices, a busier year for transactions.
We expect Colorado’s statewide median to land within a narrow band of last year’s — call it plus or minus a few percent — while transaction volume picks up meaningfully off 2024-2025 lows as buyers who paused start moving again.
The interesting story isn’t the headline number. It’s the divergence underneath: tight urban resale inventory holding prices firm, while suburban new construction in Aurora and outer Springs absorbs most of the new buyer demand. Buying or selling in 2026 will reward agents who read their submarket, not the average.
· Placeholder rationale — replace with researched prediction before publication ·
Methodology & data sources
Where the numbers in the final report will come from.
A real annual report blends public housing data with on-the-ground network observations. Sources we'll cite in the published version:
- Colorado Association of REALTORS (CAR) — monthly market trends reports
- Zillow Research — Home Value Index and sale-to-list ratios for Colorado MSAs
- Realtor.com — days-on-market and active listing counts by ZIP
- U.S. Census ACS — population, migration, and household formation
- Colorado Real Estate Agents We Trust — internal network data on response time and conversion
The published report will include period coverage, sample sizes, and any caveats with each source. This list is the methodology a real report would cite — placeholder numbers above don’t derive from these sources yet.
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