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Fountain vs Manitou Springs

Fountain and Manitou Springs are both in El Paso County. There are 60 homes for sale in Fountain and 14 in Manitou Springs as this page loaded. Manitou Springs is the more expensive of the two: a median asking price of $545,000 against $397,450 in Fountain, about 37% higher. Homes are moving faster in Fountain — a median of 80 days on market against 125 in Manitou Springs. On months of supply both are a balanced market right now.

Side by side

MeasureFountainManitou Springs
Homes for sale6014
New in last 30 days200
Median asking price$397,450$545,000
Median price per sq ft$208$366
Median size (sq ft)1,7871,679
Median bedrooms43
Median days on market80125
Months of supply5.96.0
Sold, last 12 months12328
Median sold price$415,000$665,000
Median days to sell6370
Sold vs asking price100.0%97.0%

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

Fountain 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.
Manitou 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.

Fountain

60
Homes for sale
$397,450
Median asking price
$208
Median per sq ft
80
Median days on market

Manitou Springs

14
Homes for sale
$545,000
Median asking price
$366
Median per sq ft
125
Median days on market

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Questions people ask

Is Fountain or Manitou Springs more expensive?

Manitou Springs is more expensive. The median asking price is $545,000 in Manitou Springs against $397,450 in Fountain. By price per square foot, Fountain runs $208 and Manitou Springs $366.

Which moves faster, Fountain or Manitou Springs?

Homes for sale in Fountain have been on the market a median of 80 days, against 125 days in Manitou Springs. Of the homes that actually closed in the last twelve months, Fountain took a median of 63 days and Manitou Springs 70.

Is Fountain or Manitou Springs the better market for a buyer?

Fountain is a balanced market and Manitou Springs is a balanced market, measured on months of supply — 5.9 months in Fountain and 6.0 in Manitou Springs. More months of supply means more choice and more room to negotiate, so on that measure Manitou 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 Fountain and Manitou Springs?

There are 60 homes for sale in Fountain and 14 in Manitou Springs as this page loaded, 20 and 0 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.

The listings these figures are drawn from were last changed at the MLS on October 26, 2026 at 9:16 PM Mountain time. The figures themselves are worked out again from scratch every time this page is opened.

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