Boulder held onto its million-dollar median in October and posted the steepest inventory contraction on the Front Range. The Boulder housing market October 2026 report shows months of supply falling 15.02% in a single month — and down 27.2% from a year ago. Supply has now contracted in every month we have tracked this year.
The Big Picture
Boulder remains in seller’s market territory with 4.98 months of inventory, down 15.02% from the previous month. Homes sold for 97.5% of list price, up 0.11%, and the median sold price came in at $1,065,000 — up 0.95%.
After September’s 19.21% leap across the million-dollar line, October consolidated. A 0.95% gain on top of that move is the market holding its ground rather than giving it back.
Inventory Fell 15% in One Month
Months supply of inventory dropped 15% month over month and is down 27.2% compared to twelve months ago.
The listing side explains the speed of it. New listings collapsed 32.8% to 168 properties, with total new listing volume down 34% to $254.3M. Active listings fell 16.9% to 647 properties, with total active dollar volume down 12.9% to $1.07B.
That is a seasonal pullback compounding an already tight market. Boulder sellers largely stayed home in October.
Homes Sold Faster
The median time a home spent in RPR (Realtors Property Resource) before selling was 42 days, down 12.5% from the prior month. Active listings, however, are sitting a median of 73 days, up 5.8%.
Forty-two days remains the longest sold timeline among the four Front Range markets, which is what a seven-figure median produces. But the direction reversed — Boulder homes moved faster in October than September for the first time since spring.
The Pending Picture Is Mixed
This is where October gets interesting. New pending listings fell 2.7% to 108 properties, but at a median list price of $997K — down 15.1% from September. Pending listings overall numbered 102, down 17.1%, at a median list price of $1.16M, down 3.1%.
The standout figure: pending median days in RPR collapsed 41.7% to just 21 days. Homes going under contract in Boulder are doing so faster than at any point this year.
Pending listings preview where closed sales are heading. The lower pending medians suggest November closings may come in below October’s $1.07M — but the speed at which contracts are being signed points to real demand underneath.
Sold Homes
118 homes sold in October, down 2.5%, at a median price of $1.07M and a sold-to-list ratio of 97.49%, up 0.1%. Total sold volume reached $146M, down 3.7%, with median sold price per square foot at $555, down 4%.
Property Values Turned Positive
The median estimated property value across Boulder came in at $981,720, up 0.2% month over month and up 1.2% over the past 12 months. That twelve-month figure has been climbing — it was 0.6% in September — and Boulder remains the only market in this report with positive annual value growth.
What This Means for Buyers and Sellers
For sellers, the scarcity story keeps getting stronger. Inventory is down 27.2% year over year and fell 15% in October alone. New listings dropped by nearly a third, so a well-prepared home faces the thinnest competition of the year. The 97.49% sold-to-list ratio means Boulder buyers still negotiate a couple of percent, so price accurately rather than aggressively.
For buyers, this is the tightest Boulder has been in twelve months. Only 647 homes are listed, and contracts are being signed in 21 days. The one piece of leverage: active listings are sitting a median of 73 days, so the homes that have not sold are increasingly negotiable even as the overall market tightens.
As always, conditions vary significantly by neighborhood and price point. A condo near Pearl Street and a single-family home in Table Mesa are effectively different markets, so working with an agent familiar with the specific submarket remains valuable.
Data source: Realtors Property Resource (RPR), October 2026, based on Boulder, CO listings for single-family, condo, townhome, and apartment properties.
For a look at how the wider metro performed the same month, see our Denver housing market update for October 2026, or revisit Boulder’s September 2026 figures.