Statistics for City of Boulder, CO and Boulder County

Boulder Sales Statistics: The Data without the Drama.

Graphic presentations of Boulder Real Estate Sales.

 

Historically, and especially over the past several decades, Boulder has experienced a very favorable and stable value history, and has been a predictably strong real estate investment market.  The goal of this page is to provide data in a clear graphic format, to answer any historical sales questions regarding residential real estate sales in Boulder County and the City of Boulder.  The Boulder County data includes data on the smaller cities that surround Boulder, such as Nederland, Louisville, Lafayette, Longmont, etc.

I hope you will find these Boulder sales statistics to be valuable and informative.  As always, please feel free to reach out with any questions or suggestions.  If there is a data view missing that you would like to see, please reach out.  I'll be happy to see what I can do to add more features to this data presentation.

Best,

Arn Rasker

Luxury Broker in Boulder

Current Data:  Please note that the graphs for Boulder Real Estate Statistics are automatically updated after each month, and that the graphs are interactive.  The data data displayed in the graphs below have been pulled from IRES MLS.

Graph #1: How much inventory is there on the market today, compared to previous years? A “Balanced Market” will typically have 5-6 months of inventory on the market. Under 5 Months of inventory is typically a Seller’s market, and over 6 Months is typically a Buyer’s market. Days of inventory represents the number of months it would take to sell off the current inventory, assuming that the sales RATE remains the same as last month’s, and no new homes come on the market, at that particular moment in time.

Total Sales Dollar Volume, for all types of homes including all Detached and Attached (Condos and Townhomes)

Monthy sales volume: all home sales, including attached and detached homes, compared to previous years

Sold Price vs List Price, expressed as a percentage of List Price, averaged: Detached and Attached Homes

Median Sales $ Price: All homes, Detached Single Family Homes and Attached types

Median Sales $ Price: Detached Single Family Homes only

Median Sales $ Price: Attached properties only such as: Condos and Townhomes

Average number of Days on the market, from first day in the MLS as a new listing to Closing Date.

Total Inventory listed for sale in the MLS, Attached and Detached, last month compared to same month in previous years

Number of Detached and Attached Single Family Homes on the Market, current and past months:

Comparing the Average Sales Price in the Boulder vs. Denver markets.

Dollar Volume: By Price Range

City of Boulder Inventory of Homes for Sale: By Price Range

New Listings, by Price Range

Metrics

Metrics represent the residential real estate topics that areas and variables pop against. Some are counts, some are calculations. Some calculations are median, some are just average. In combination, they are the primary descriptors for what makes a market tick.

 

New Listings
A count of the properties that have been newly listed on the market in a given month.
Homes for Sale
The number of properties available for sale in active status at the end of a given month. Also known as inventory. For this metric, the "12/6/3 months" calculation is the average of the most recent 12/6/3 months of data.
Under Contract
A count of all listings that went into Pending status during the reported period. Pending listings are counted at the end of the reported period only once. So if a listing goes into, out of and back into Pending status during the reporting period, it is counted just one time. This is the most real-time measure possible for home buyer activity, as it measures signed contracts on sales rather than the actual closed sale. As such, it is called a leading indicator of buyer demand.
Closed Sales
A count of the actual sales that have closed in a given month. Calculations are based on sold data.
Days on Market
Median or average number of days between when a property is listed and when an offer is accepted in a given month.*
Months Supply
The inventory of homes for sale at the end of a given month, divided by that month's total number of homes deemed under contract. This metric is a theoretical estimate of how many months it would take to deplete the full inventory if no new listings entered the market.
Sale Price
Calculations are based on sold data. Prices do not account for seller concessions. Median represents the point at which half of the homes that sold in a given month were priced higher and half were priced lower. Average is the mean sales price for all closed sales in a given month.*
Pct of Orig List Price
Percentage found when dividing a listing's sales price by its original list price, then taking the average for all sold listings in a given month, not accounting for seller concessions. Calculations are based on sold data. Example:
A property is listed at $200,000, reduced to $190,000 and taken off the market. Then the same property is listed again at $180,000 a few months later and is further reduced to $175,000. It closes for $160,000. We take the ratio of $160,000:$180,000 or 88.9% instead of $160,000:$200,000 because a new listing ID was issued.
Dollar Volume
The total dollar amount of all sales for the selected criteria.
Price Per Tot Sq Ft
Calculations are based on sold data. Prices do not account for seller concessions. Median represents the point at which half of the homes that sold in a given month were priced higher and half were priced lower, divided by the number of finished square feet. Average is the mean sales price for homes sold in a given month divided by the number of finished square feet.*

US Census Bureau data, and other sources, compiled by Headwaters Economics

 

 

 

US Census Bureau data for Boulder County, Colorado, USA

                           

US Census Bureau data for City of Boulder, Colorado, USA