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Where is the cheapest place to buy a house in Colorado?

Of the twenty-five Colorado towns where the most homes sold, Greeley is the cheapest - a median sale of $424,945 across 1,344 sales.

This is the twenty-five Colorado towns where the most homes actually sold over the last twelve complete months, ranked by what the middle home sold for. Cheaper towns than these exist - they are small places with a few sales a year, where a median is noise and where there may be nothing to buy for months. These are the cheap markets you can actually get into.

Greeley happens to be both the cheapest of these to buy and the cheapest to hold, at a median $217 a month in property tax and dues before any mortgage. It is not the rule, either: Commerce City and Colorado Springs sell for within $20,000 of each other, and their tax and dues differ by $280 a month - $3,360 a year on the same money.

$424,945
Cheapest of the 25: Greeley
$967,000
Dearest of the 25: Boulder
$570,000
Colorado median
$285
Colorado per square foot
64,917
Sales behind this

The twenty-five busiest markets, cheapest first

Tax and dues is the median of each sale’s own annual property tax plus its HOA fee, converted to a monthly figure. It is before any mortgage, insurance or utilities.
TownHomes soldMedian sold pricePer square footTax and duesTypical time to sell
Greeley1,344$424,945$210$217/mo64 days
Aurora5,551$470,000$249$442/mo68 days
Colorado Springs2,814$475,000$226$243/mo69 days
Johnstown744$489,995$241$426/mo85 days
Commerce City1,156$495,000$246$523/mo79 days
Loveland1,597$509,450$270$281/mo64 days
Thornton1,702$520,000$267$432/mo61 days
Brighton1,078$520,174$259$456/mo77 days
Westminster989$543,800$280$344/mo54 days
Longmont1,549$565,000$293$377/mo58 days
Lakewood1,658$569,500$300$356/mo55 days
Fort Collins2,643$570,000$286$384/mo56 days
Denver9,770$580,000$358$379/mo58 days
Englewood783$587,750$327$373/mo55 days
Windsor932$599,900$250$456/mo77 days
Broomfield1,374$620,000$301$463/mo56 days
Arvada2,126$624,945$302$358/mo52 days
Littleton3,026$650,000$305$463/mo58 days
Centennial1,376$650,000$281$488/mo53 days
Parker1,852$682,000$270$493/mo62 days
Castle Rock1,761$682,500$268$488/mo69 days
Highlands Ranch1,206$709,000$292$466/mo54 days
Erie846$748,500$285$672/mo73 days
Golden754$925,000$366$492/mo54 days
Boulder1,506$967,000$513$688/mo65 days

Every one of these has its own page

The table is a median; the town pages are the sales it came from, listed one by one. There are 156 Colorado towns with enough sales to publish.

Common questions

Where is the cheapest place to buy a house in Colorado?

Of the twenty-five towns with the most sales over the last twelve complete months, Greeley had the lowest median sale price at $424,945, across 1,344 sales. Cheaper towns exist, but they are places with a handful of sales a year, where a median tells you almost nothing and where you may wait months for something to come up.

Is it cheaper, or are the homes just smaller?

That is the right question and it is why the per-square-foot column is here. Greeley works out at $210 a square foot against $285 for Colorado as a whole. A town can look cheap purely because the homes are smaller or older, and the per-foot figure is what separates the two.

Does a cheaper house cost less to own?

Greeley happens to be both the cheapest of these to buy and the cheapest to hold, at a median $217 a month in property tax and dues before any mortgage. It is not the rule, either: Commerce City and Colorado Springs sell for within $20,000 of each other, and their tax and dues differ by $280 a month - $3,360 a year on the same money.

How big is the gap across Colorado?

Between the cheapest and the dearest of these twenty-five markets the median sale runs from $424,945 to $967,000. The state median is $570,000.

Can I see what actually sold in one of these towns?

Yes - every town in the table has its own page listing the individual sales, so you can check the median against the homes it came from rather than taking our word for it.

Buying in one of these towns?

Tell us the town and what you are after, and we will show you what is actually on the market there - and what the homes like it have been selling for.

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Where these numbers come from

Every 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.

The ranking covers the twenty-five towns with the most closed sales, not every town in Colorado. That is deliberate: a median taken over four sales is not a market figure, and a town you cannot buy into is not an answer to this question.

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These figures were worked out from the live MLS feed at October 27, 2026 at 8:48 AM Mountain time, and are recomputed every fifteen minutes.