Every week, the Principal Team publishes analysis of the Denver metro real estate market for the people who actually need it — buyers and sellers making decisions right now. We pull from REcolorado MLS data, DMAR reports, and our own transaction-level experience working with clients across the Denver metro area to answer the questions you’re actually asking: where are prices moving, what are rates doing, and how do national headlines translate into what’s happening in your neighborhood. We don’t editorialize beyond what the data supports, and we don’t pretend the market is simpler than it is. If you’re looking for Denver real estate news and trying to make a smart decision about a home in Denver, this is where we’ll help you think it through.
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We counted contracts written across Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson counties in September 2026 and compared them with September 2025. September was the first full month with rates above 7%.
Every October, buyers ask whether they should wait for spring, and sellers ask whether anyone buys a home during the holidays. We pulled last year’s numbers from the MLS to answer both.
One of those big real estate portals emailed me and told me that a certain Aurora zip code IS a buyer’s market. So, I wondered whether any county in Metro Denver is currently a buyer’s market and, if so, which one?
There are 14,471 homes listed for sale this morning across the seven counties we follow. Roughly 7,668 of them are asking less than they did the day they came to market. That works out to 53 percent, and the true figure runs higher.
The average 30-year fixed rate reached 7.07% today, according to Mortgage News Daily. Rates haven’t been this high since May 22, 2025, 476 days ago.
Sales fell 18.99% from July and 17.35% from last August. Year to date, sales are down 3.49%. Should we be concerned?
When funds are limited, what should you fix before your home goes on the market? What should you hold back for the inspection? Does the price you have in mind actually get you where you need to go?
Nearly two-thirds of Metro Denver homes that closed in the last 90 days came with the seller paying something toward the buyer’s costs. Across 12,580 closings in Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties, 62% included a concession.
For two years running, our updates have said the same thing about supply: there’s more of it. July broke the streak. Metro Denver ended the month with 13,115 active listings, down 6.29% from July 2025 and the first July-over-July decline since 2023.
I pulled every listing in our seven counties that left the market during the first 29 days of July, going back four years, and sorted them into two piles: the ones that closed, and the ones whose listing agreement ran out without a sale. The results are surprising.
Which metro county has cooled the most since the pandemic? And how does metro Denver compare to Austin and Chicago? Let’s take a look at the rate at which homes are selling and compare it to those cities and our area before and during the pandemic.
Interest rates are up today and that has us thinking about affordability. The median home in Metro Denver sold for $616,000 in June. The median household here earns $108,046 a year. Whether those two numbers can meet is the question underneath most conversations about our market, and the answer is less comfortable than a year of roughly flat prices might suggest.
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