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Manitou Springs vs Palmer Lake

Manitou Springs and Palmer Lake are both in El Paso County. There are 19 homes for sale in Manitou 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 $560,000 in Manitou Springs, about 3% higher. Homes are moving faster in Palmer Lake — a median of 48 days on market against 81 in Manitou Springs. Manitou Springs is a buyer's market right now and Palmer Lake is a balanced market.

Side by side

MeasureManitou SpringsPalmer Lake
Homes for sale1911
New in last 30 days32
Median asking price$560,000$579,000
Median price per sq ft$355$333
Median size (sq ft)2,0462,211
Median bedrooms33
Median days on market8148
Months of supply7.64.0
Sold, last 12 months3033
Median sold price$651,500$608,000
Median days to sell7080
Sold vs asking price97.0%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

Manitou Springs is a buyer's marketOver six months of supply means there are more homes for sale than the current pace of sales absorbs. Buyers have choice and time, and sellers usually have to compete on price or condition.
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.

Manitou Springs

19
Homes for sale
$560,000
Median asking price
$355
Median per sq ft
81
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 Manitou Springs or Palmer Lake more expensive?

Palmer Lake is more expensive. The median asking price is $579,000 in Palmer Lake against $560,000 in Manitou Springs. By price per square foot, Manitou Springs runs $355 and Palmer Lake $333.

Which moves faster, Manitou Springs or Palmer Lake?

Homes for sale in Palmer Lake have been on the market a median of 48 days, against 81 days in Manitou Springs. Of the homes that actually closed in the last twelve months, Manitou Springs took a median of 70 days and Palmer Lake 80.

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

Manitou Springs is a buyer's market and Palmer Lake is a balanced market, measured on months of supply — 7.6 months in Manitou Springs and 4.0 in Palmer Lake. 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 Manitou Springs and Palmer Lake?

There are 19 homes for sale in Manitou Springs and 11 in Palmer Lake as this page loaded, 3 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.