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Colorado Springs vs Palmer Lake

Colorado Springs and Palmer Lake are both in El Paso County. There are 977 homes for sale in Colorado Springs and 11 in Palmer Lake as this page loaded. Palmer Lake is the more expensive of the two: a median asking price of $579,000 against $500,000 in Colorado Springs, about 16% higher. Homes are moving faster in Palmer Lake — a median of 48 days on market against 62 in Colorado Springs. On months of supply both are a balanced market right now.

Side by side

MeasureColorado SpringsPalmer Lake
Homes for sale97711
New in last 30 days2682
Median asking price$500,000$579,000
Median price per sq ft$236$333
Median size (sq ft)2,2122,211
Median bedrooms43
Median days on market6248
Months of supply4.14.0
Sold, last 12 months2,84533
Median sold price$474,000$608,000
Median days to sell6980
Sold vs asking price100.0%99.0%

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

Colorado Springs 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.
Palmer Lake 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.

Colorado Springs

977
Homes for sale
$500,000
Median asking price
$236
Median per sq ft
62
Median days on market

Palmer Lake

11
Homes for sale
$579,000
Median asking price
$333
Median per sq ft
48
Median days on market

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Questions people ask

Is Colorado Springs or Palmer Lake more expensive?

Palmer Lake is more expensive. The median asking price is $579,000 in Palmer Lake against $500,000 in Colorado Springs. By price per square foot, Colorado Springs runs $236 and Palmer Lake $333.

Which moves faster, Colorado Springs or Palmer Lake?

Homes for sale in Palmer Lake have been on the market a median of 48 days, against 62 days in Colorado Springs. Of the homes that actually closed in the last twelve months, Colorado Springs took a median of 69 days and Palmer Lake 80.

Is Colorado Springs or Palmer Lake the better market for a buyer?

Colorado Springs is a balanced market and Palmer Lake is a balanced market, measured on months of supply — 4.1 months in Colorado Springs and 4.0 in Palmer Lake. More months of supply means more choice and more room to negotiate, so on that measure Colorado Springs 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 Colorado Springs and Palmer Lake?

There are 977 homes for sale in Colorado Springs and 11 in Palmer Lake as this page loaded, 268 and 2 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.