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August 21, 2026· Updated September 6, 2026
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Steamboat Springs, CO Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

What homes actually sell for in Steamboat Springs: a median closing price of $1,050,000 across 267 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread and a ZIP-level breakdown.

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Steamboat Springs, CO Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Steamboat Springs produces a steady stream of closings but little consensus: sales over the last six months span a range wide enough that the median is a midpoint between different markets, not a going rate. The distribution below matters more than the headline.

The snapshot

  • Closings tracked, last 6 months: 267
  • Median sold price, last 6 months: $1,050,000
  • Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $788
  • Middle half of sales closed between: $570,000 and $1,950,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 267 closed sales in Steamboat Springs over the last six months, with a median closing price of $1,050,000. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $570,000 and $1,950,000. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. Across the 267 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $600 and $1,051 per square foot.

Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Steamboat Springs, CO (September 2026)

The median home price in Steamboat Springs is $1,050,000, measured across the 267 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $570,000 and $1,950,000.

Where Steamboat Springs sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in Steamboat Springs
Closed sale prices over the last six months. Middle half of sales: $570k to $1.95M
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$266k to $710k: 77 sales77sales$266k$710k to $1.15M: 55 sales$1.15M to $1.6M: 38 sales$1.15M$1.6M to $2.04M: 27 sales$2.04M to $2.49M: 18 sales$2.04M$2.49M to $2.93M: 15 sales$2.93M to $3.37M: 11 sales$2.93M$3.37M to $3.82M: 7 salesMedian $1.05M

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Steamboat Springs over the last six months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $570,000 and $1,950,000. Among the 46 Colorado markets with a published band, Steamboat Springs's middle-half spread ($570,000 to $1,950,000) ranks 46th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median. Measured as the ratio of the upper to the lower quartile, its middle-half spread ranks in the 99th percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

Median sold price per square foot
Steamboat Springs monthly medians for the complete months inside the last six months, Apr 2026 to Aug 2026, among qualifying closings with usable living area. 5 months plotted.
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Apr 2026: $870 per square foot across 57 sales$870AprMay 2026: $1,022 per square foot across 34 sales$1,022MayJun 2026: $775 per square foot across 48 sales$775JunJul 2026: $693 per square foot across 47 sales$693JulAug 2026: $686 per square foot across 54 sales$686Aug

How long a sale takes here

  • Listed to under contract: a median of 49 days, across 172 Steamboat Springs closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
  • Contract to closing: a median of 37 days, across 173 Steamboat Springs closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
Both are measured from the closings themselves, not from listing inventory. Each sale is timed using its own listing and contract dates. That is why these counts are smaller than the 267 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Steamboat Springs angle

Spread is the dominant feature of this record. The gap between $570,000 and $1,950,000 in Steamboat Springs is wider than in most markets we track, so $1,050,000 sits inside a broad range and works poorly as an anchor for a specific address. When a band is this wide, the citywide figure mostly tells you that a citywide figure will not do. The answer has to come from comps that match on property type, living area and condition. So sales above the middle vary more among themselves, and an under matched comp set reads low. And since $570,000 to $1,950,000 captures half of all closings, the ends of this distribution run a long way out.

Steamboat Springs market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Steamboat Springs ZIP codes: 80487.

From market read to offer price

A spread this wide means the citywide number cannot price a specific address; the step that matters is the property-level read. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale and graded against the real closing price after it sells. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Steamboat Springs address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Steamboat Springs, CO
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 0873825
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 267
Median sold price: $1,050,000
Median sold $/sqft: $788 (267 qualifying)
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Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Steamboat Springs over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in Steamboat Springs?

The median sold price in Steamboat Springs over the last 6 months is $1,050,000, measured across 267 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Steamboat Springs last month?

Resideline tracked 55 closed sales in Steamboat Springs in August 2026, out of 267 closings tracked over the last six months. These are tracked samples of market activity, not official county totals.

What is the typical sale price range in Steamboat Springs?

The middle half of Steamboat Springs sales over the last six months closed between $570,000 and $1,950,000, with a median of $1,050,000.

What is the typical price per square foot in Steamboat Springs?

Among qualifying Steamboat Springs closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $788, measured across 267 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.

Why is the Steamboat Springs median a poor guide for a specific property?

Because the band around it is wide. The distance from $570,000 to $1,950,000 here is greater than in most markets we track, so the middle half of closings alone spans a broad range, and half of all sales fall outside even that. A midpoint drawn across such a range says little about a particular address.

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