These 10 Colorado Cities Have the Healthiest Real Estate Markets

Is Colorado still a good state to buy a home? Sure, housing prices have increased dramatically, but the real estate market in Colorado is relatively healthy, according to new data from our friends at WalletHub.

Is Colorado Still a Good Place to Buy a Home in 2025?

WalletHub conducted research to find which cities across the country have the best real estate markets.

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We often hear about the health of a real estate market, but I feel that many of us in Colorado do not fully understand what that actually means.

What Defines a Healthy Real Estate Market in Colorado

WalletHub defines it as affordable, value, foreclosure rates, the economics of the area, and other factors. That is how they created the list of the best real estate markets in the nation. A total of thirteen Colorado cities made the top 300 list. Here are the top ten.

Colorado Cities That Just Missed the Top 10

Centennial, Boulder, and Pueblo just barely missed the top ten.

Why Boulder Didn’t Make the List

As you likely noticed,  Boulder was not listed on the top ten list. The real estate market in Boulder is quite tricky. Here is a discouraging statistic from WalletHub's research.

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Boulder has the highest home price is the highest percentage of income in the entire country. This means that residents of Boulder are spending more of their income for housing than anywhere else nationwide.

Longmont Ranks as the Best Housing Market in Colorado

Longmont is the best real estate market in the entire state of Colorado. It also happens to be the 32nd best nationwide.

Colorado Springs, Denver, Fort Collins, and Arvada all made the top 100, but did not make it in the top 50.