Revolutionizing · Modernizing · SimplifyingRevolutionizing · Modernizing · SimplifyingThose two numbers are the whole answer, and they disagree on purpose. A median sale price is an index of WHAT sold as much as of what it cost; price per square foot is not, so when the two part company the gap between them is the mix.
Here the median home that sold went from 1,980 square feet to 2,024, up 2.2%. So Colorado is not quite as dear as the headline price suggests — people bought a bigger home for about the same money.
Measured on 65,742 closed sales over the twelve complete calendar months to Aug 2026. The current month is deliberately left out: six days of a month sitting beside eleven full ones reads as a crash and is only a calendar.
The third column is the headline everyone quotes. The fourth is the one that does not move when the size of what sold changes, and the fifth is why they differ.
| Month closed | Homes sold | Median price | Per square foot | Median size (sq ft) | Share of asking | Days to sell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | 5,800 | $567,500 | $287 | 1,980 | 99% | 73 |
| Oct 2025 | 5,704 | $574,000 | $289 | 2,020 | 99% | 73 |
| Nov 2025 | 4,511 | $560,000 | $282 | 2,000 | 99% | 76 |
| Dec 2025 | 5,150 | $550,000 | $278 | 1,993 | 99% | 84 |
| Jan 2026 | 3,242 | $545,000 | $278 | 2,000 | 99% | 97 |
| Feb 2026 | 4,407 | $552,500 | $280 | 1,981 | 99% | 82 |
| Mar 2026 | 5,966 | $574,925 | $289 | 2,005 | 100% | 56 |
| Apr 2026 | 6,484 | $575,000 | $288 | 2,030 | 100% | 53 |
| May 2026 | 6,592 | $590,000 | $291 | 2,036 | 100% | 54 |
| Jun 2026 | 6,647 | $590,000 | $287 | 2,072 | 100% | 56 |
| Jul 2026 | 6,122 | $580,000 | $286 | 2,065 | 100% | 58 |
| Aug 2026 | 5,117 | $570,000 | $284 | 2,024 | 99% | 65 |
Price is one of four things worth watching, and the other three are on the same table above.
Sellers took a median 99% of their final asking price across the year, and 52.5% of homes sold below what they were asking. There are 22,749 homes on the market against 65,742 sales in the year, which is 4.2 months of supply at that pace — four to six months is the band usually called balanced, below it favours sellers and above it favours buyers.
A statewide median can be flat while a particular town runs the other way for a whole year. Every town has its own live report.
Over the last twelve complete months the median sale price was flat, within 0.4%, from $567,500 in Sep 2025 to $570,000 in Aug 2026. Measured per square foot — which is the fairer comparison, because it does not move when the size of what sold changes — it was down 1.0%, from $287 to $284. That is 65,742 real closed sales, not a forecast and not a sample.
Because the homes that sold changed size. The median home that closed in Aug 2026 was 2,024 square feet against 1,980 a year earlier, up 2.2%. A median sale price is as much an index of WHAT sold as of what it cost, so when buyers move to bigger or smaller homes the headline price moves without any individual home changing value. Price per square foot is the measure that survives that, which is why it is the column to read.
Nothing in this data looks like one. Over twelve months the median sale price is flat, within 0.4% and sellers are still getting a median 99% of their asking price. There are 22,749 homes for sale against 65,742 sold in a year, which is 4.2 months of supply — four to six months is the range usually called balanced. We would tell you if it were otherwise; every number here comes off the same feed whichever way it points.
A median of 65 days in Aug 2026 against 73 days a year earlier. That is signature to settlement, so it includes the weeks under contract after an offer is accepted, and it moves hard with the season — read the column, not the last row.
Three things, and they matter. It is what CLOSED, so it lags what is being agreed today by roughly the time it takes to close. It stops at the last complete calendar month, deliberately — a part-month sits next to full ones and reads as a collapse. And a statewide median is not your street: a single town, or one neighbourhood inside it, can move the other way from the state all year. The town and neighbourhood pages on this site are where that lives.
That is a judgement, and the honest version of it depends on numbers this page does not have — what you are borrowing at, how long you will hold, what your own home is worth. What the data supports is narrower and more useful: prices are flat, within 0.4% year on year, a square foot is cheaper than a year ago, and there is 4.2 months of supply. We would rather give you that than an opinion dressed as a fact.
A statewide median is a headline. We will work out what has actually happened to homes like yours, on your street, from the same feed these figures come from.
Get your numbersEvery figure on this page is measured from our live MLS feed and recomputed every fifteen minutes - it is not a monthly snapshot, and the moment these figures were worked out is stamped at the foot of the page. Sales figures cover residential sales only, over the last twelve complete calendar months; rentals, land and commercial are excluded, as are fractional co-ownership shares, which are priced per share and would distort every median. Market data is deemed reliable but not guaranteed - talk to us before making a decision on it.
Each month is the median of the homes that CLOSED in that calendar month, so the series lags agreed prices by roughly the length of a closing. Price per square foot is the median of each sale’s own price divided by its own floor area — never the median price divided by the median area, which is a different and worse number. The year-on-year figures compare the first and last months of the table; a single month’s median over a few thousand sales carries real noise, so a move under 1% is reported as flat rather than dressed up as a trend.
These figures were worked out from the live MLS feed at September 6, 2026 at 8:18 PM Mountain time, and are recomputed every fifteen minutes.