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Castle Rock vs Highlands Ranch

Castle Rock and Highlands Ranch are both in Douglas County. There are 571 homes for sale in Castle Rock and 181 in Highlands Ranch as this page loaded. Castle Rock is the more expensive of the two: a median asking price of $739,000 against $675,000 in Highlands Ranch, about 9% higher. Homes are moving faster in Highlands Ranch — a median of 52 days on market against 60 in Castle Rock. Castle Rock is a balanced market right now and Highlands Ranch is a seller's market.

Side by side

MeasureCastle RockHighlands Ranch
Homes for sale571181
New in last 30 days14857
Median asking price$739,000$675,000
Median price per sq ft$277$298
Median size (sq ft)2,9882,450
Median bedrooms43
Median days on market6052
Months of supply3.81.7
Sold, last 12 months1,7891,256
Median sold price$682,500$705,000
Median days to sell7053
Sold vs asking price99.0%100.0%

The darker figure in each row is the lower price, the shorter wait or the larger number — which of those is the good news depends entirely on whether you are buying or selling.

What each market is doing

Castle Rock is a balanced marketBetween three and six months of supply is the range where neither side has the upper hand - well-priced homes sell and buyers still have room to negotiate.
Highlands Ranch is a seller's marketUnder three months of supply means the homes for sale would run out in under three months at the current pace of sales. Sellers tend to hold their price and good homes go quickly.

Castle Rock

571
Homes for sale
$739,000
Median asking price
$277
Median per sq ft
60
Median days on market

Highlands Ranch

181
Homes for sale
$675,000
Median asking price
$298
Median per sq ft
52
Median days on market

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Questions people ask

Is Castle Rock or Highlands Ranch more expensive?

Castle Rock is more expensive. The median asking price is $739,000 in Castle Rock against $675,000 in Highlands Ranch. By price per square foot, Castle Rock runs $277 and Highlands Ranch $298.

Which moves faster, Castle Rock or Highlands Ranch?

Homes for sale in Highlands Ranch have been on the market a median of 52 days, against 60 days in Castle Rock. Of the homes that actually closed in the last twelve months, Castle Rock took a median of 70 days and Highlands Ranch 53.

Is Castle Rock or Highlands Ranch the better market for a buyer?

Castle Rock is a balanced market and Highlands Ranch is a seller's market, measured on months of supply — 3.8 months in Castle Rock and 1.7 in Highlands Ranch. More months of supply means more choice and more room to negotiate, so on that measure Castle Rock is the easier of the two to buy in today. That is the arithmetic, not advice — the right town is the one you want to live in.

How many homes are for sale in Castle Rock and Highlands Ranch?

There are 571 homes for sale in Castle Rock and 181 in Highlands Ranch as this page loaded, 148 and 57 of them new in the last 30 days.

How current are these figures?

They are not published on a schedule and they are not a monthly snapshot. Both towns are read from the live MLS feed at the same instant, when you open this page, so the two sides are always measured against each other rather than against different weeks.

Both sides of this comparison are recalculated from the live MLS feed at the moment the page loads - neither is a monthly snapshot, and the two are read at the same instant so they are always comparable. Figures cover residential homes for sale; rentals, land and commercial are excluded, as are fractional co-ownership shares, which are priced per share and would distort the medians. Sold figures cover the last twelve complete calendar months. Market data is deemed reliable but not guaranteed - talk to us before making a decision on it.