Longmont Housing Market Report (Updated Monthly)
Longmont tightened to 2.7 months of supply while Boulder held flat at 4.5, so the gap widened rather than closed. Homes go under contract in 43 days against Boulder's 87. The year-to-date median is down 2.4%. All three are true at once, and together they price a move-up trade.
Last updated: August 2026. Figures are single-family sold data for the city of Longmont, from the Colorado Association of REALTORS Local Market Update (data from IRES, the Front Range MLS), July 2026, stamped current as of August 5.
The Longmont housing market is running in two directions at once, and in July they pulled further apart. Single-family closed at a median of $610,000 year to date, down about 2.4%, while months of supply tightened to 2.7 against Boulder's 4.5 (CAR/IRES, July 2026). Most coverage of this market picks one of those and ignores the other. Hold both, because together they shape the trade you were planning. Sell in Boulder, buy in Longmont, and you're selling into the looser, slower market and buying into the tighter, faster one.
Last month that direction was getting easier. This month it got harder. Longmont tightened from 2.9 months in June to 2.7 while Boulder held flat at 4.5, so the supply gap widened to 1.8 months from 1.6. On the clock the split is starker still: 43 days to an accepted offer in Longmont against 87 in Boulder. If you are making this trade, July moved the ground under it.
One thing we won't do is turn that 2.4% into a statement about your house. A town median can't. Here's what it can.
What's the Longmont median right now?
Longmont single-family closed at a median of $599,500 in July 2026, and $610,000 year to date, about 2.4% below the same stretch last year. The year-to-date figure is the one to hold onto, and this month shows you exactly why. Against July last year the month figure is up 5.2%; against last year the year-to-date figure is down 2.4%. The same town, the same release, two windows, opposite signs. A month rests on 120 sales and the report prints its own warning: activity for one month can look extreme on a small sample. The $685,000 print in June 2026, which we flagged here at the time as sales mix rather than appreciation, has already given most of itself back. A single up-month is not a recovery any more than a single down-month was a crash. We'll cite the year to date and not build a story on a month.
Read those figures the way we compile them: single-family, sold, city of Longmont. And note the one number we deliberately won't publish.
About this data, and the number we won't publish
Every figure here is single-family, sold, for the city of Longmont, from the Colorado Association of REALTORS Local Market Update, built on IRES MLS data and published free each month. Medians, averages and percent-of-list all exclude seller concessions.
We won't publish a months-of-supply figure for the $800K to $1.5M band. The 2.7 months above is the whole town, and half of Longmont's single-family sales closed below $610,000 year to date, so the band you shop sits in the top slice of that distribution and may well be looser. Nobody publishes a band-level breakout; it takes a direct MLS pull. If you're transacting in that band, ask us to pull yours. It's a specific question with a specific answer, and a real band-level figure for your target home beats a manufactured town average every time.
If prices are down, how is supply tight?
Because supply and price answer different questions, and a median answers neither one cleanly. Months of supply tells you how fast the market clears at the prices being asked. The median tells you the middle of what actually sold, which moves when the mix of what sold moves, not only when houses change in value.
So here is the line we will hold. What's down 2.4% is the price of what sold. That isn't the same as saying your house is worth 2.4% less. A town median can't separate a change in value from a change in what happened to trade. The instrument that can is a repeat-sales index, which tracks the same homes selling twice. The FHFA publishes one quarterly for the Boulder metro area, which includes Longmont, and it's the number to watch if you want value rather than mix.
What we can say is that the corridor isn't moving in one direction. Boulder's year-to-date median is roughly flat, down about a third of a percent, on completely different housing stock. Loveland sits at 2.8 months of supply against Longmont's 2.7 — and we are not going to tell you which of those is "the tightest town", because the two have run within about a tenth of a month of each other all year and the order flips almost every release. They are one cluster. What is worth saying is that tightness and price direction are not the same variable, and the two towns prove it: their supply is nearly identical and their medians are moving differently.
One number you'll see quoted everywhere deserves a definition, because almost nobody gives it one. Longmont homes sold at 98.7% of list price. That's the last list price, after any reductions, and it excludes seller concessions. A home listed at $700,000, cut to $625,000, and sold at $616,875 received 98.7% of list and 88.1% of its original ask. And the CAR report publishes no original-list companion, so nothing in this source can tell you how much cutting happened first. It isn't evidence that prices are holding. It supports exactly one statement: homes that sell are closing very close to their final asking price.
How fast are homes really selling?
Forty-three days from listing to an accepted offer, on average, in July, and 57 year to date. That is the single-family number, and it is down from 59 days a year ago. Longmont townhomes and condos took 74 days, and their supply is running at 5.0 months against single-family's 2.7 — and moving the opposite way, up from 4.6 a year ago while single-family fell from 3.7. One town, two markets going in different directions, and any figure that blends them is telling you about neither.
Even inside single-family, the average hides the split that decides your outcome. Turnkey, sensibly priced homes go under contract quickly, sometimes with competition. Dated or ambitiously priced homes sit and drag the average up. The useful question is never how long Longmont homes take. It's which side of that split your house, or the one you're bidding on, lands on.
Is the Longmont housing market a buyer's or a seller's market?
A seller's market by the conventional measure, and a tighter one than Boulder by a widening margin. Longmont single-family supply sits at 2.7 months, down from 2.9 the month before and from 3.7 a year ago. Under roughly three months is read as favoring sellers, over six as favoring buyers. Boulder sits at 4.5, where it also sat in June.
| Single-family, July 2026 | Longmont | Boulder |
|---|---|---|
| Median sale price | $599,500 | $1,355,000 |
| Months of supply | 2.7 (from 3.7) | 4.5 (from 5.7) |
| Days on market | 43 | 87 |
| Median, year to date | $610,000 (−2.4%) | $1,300,000 (about −0.3%) |
Colorado Association of REALTORS Local Market Updates for Longmont and Boulder. Data from IRES, single-family, sold, July 2026. Town-level figures, not band-level.
Two honest caveats. Boulder stopped tightening this month — 4.5 months in June and 4.5 in July, though still well down from 5.7 a year ago — so the gap between the two towns widened rather than closed, and a "converging corridor" story that held in June does not hold on July. This line has now pointed both ways inside three months, which is the best argument for reading the level rather than the trend. And both aggregates are town figures, not band figures. We'd expect each to be distorted at its ends: Boulder's by a luxury tail that sits, Longmont's by entry stock that clears quickly. So the inversion may be partly an artifact of that, and we can't measure how much until a band-level pull exists.
What should move-up buyers and sellers actually do?
Recognize that the usual trade runs the harder way, and got harder this month. Selling in Boulder to buy in Longmont means selling into the looser, slower market and buying into the tighter, faster one — and in July the supply gap widened to 1.8 months while the time-to-offer gap widened to 44 days. It has to be financed accordingly.
- A home-sale contingency rarely wins a well-priced home here. Where it's accepted, you pay for it: in price, in a kick-out clause the seller can exercise on a better offer, or in a compressed deadline. Plan on writing non-contingent, which means the money has to exist before you write.
- If a HELOC is part of your plan, open it before the house hits the MLS. Lenders generally won't originate a home-equity line on a property that's already listed, and a Coming Soon status is a listing they can see. Some will also suspend further draws once they know it's on the market; your line agreement governs, and you don't want to be arguing about that mid-move. Build in the clock, too: underwriting runs weeks, and a line on your primary residence carries a three-business-day right of rescission before you can draw. It's an easy trap to walk into, because a HELOC feels like something you arrange when you need the money. By then you've listed.
- Bridge financing gets harder on a softening departing residence. A bridge lender sizes the loan against your departing home's appraised value at a maximum combined loan-to-value, so a soft appraisal shrinks the loan directly, trimming your down payment at exactly the moment you need a clean, non-contingent offer. You're also generally underwritten as though you're carrying both payments. The soft sell-side quietly degrades your buy-side, and that compounding is the real risk in this direction. We walk through the trade-offs in bridge loan vs. sale contingency.
- Decide your appraisal gap on the contract, not in your head. If you go above ask, the appraisal has to support it, and we've just told you we can't say what the upper-tier comp set is doing. That's exactly why you fix your number in advance. In Colorado you do this on paper: the appraisal provision in the standard contract lets you name the amount you'll cover above the appraised value. That amount is cash, on top of your down payment.
- Two more, briefly. A rent-back is negotiated, not granted, and owner-occupant financing generally requires your buyer to occupy within 60 days, so keep any leaseback short. And under the 2026 rules your buyer-agency agreement is signed before you tour: sign it at a table, not in a driveway. It can be scoped to a single property or a short window. Commissions are not set by law and remain fully negotiable, and buyer-broker compensation is no longer offered on the MLS, so budget to pay it or build it into your offer.
If you're the Longmont seller, the number that should worry you isn't the median. It's the calendar. At 2.7 months of supply your house will very likely sell. The risk isn't whether. It's when, relative to the home you're buying. Forty-three days is an average from listing to accepted offer, and it tells you nothing about the four to six weeks after that. Work backwards from the closing you need on the buy side, not forwards from the day you feel ready to list. The buy-before-you-sell playbook walks through the orders that work.
And if you're going the other way, selling in Longmont to buy in Boulder, you have the easy direction of this trade for once. You're selling into the tighter market and buying into the looser one. The contingency a Longmont seller would laugh at is a more plausible ask against a Boulder seller sitting at 4.5 months and waiting 87 days for an offer.
Watch the tax line, not just the price
Longmont's total mill levy varies parcel by parcel. The city's rate is one piece, but a home inside a special or metropolitan district can carry extra mills or a separate debt assessment, so two homes at the same price across town can hand you very different annual bills. Longmont has been notably restrictive here: Mountain Brook is the only residential metro district approved since the city reinstated them in 2019, and Council has since moved to limit them further. That's a quiet advantage over faster-growing corridor towns. One more local wrinkle: Longmont sits in two counties, most of it in Boulder County, but the east side in Weld. Pull the itemized mills for your exact parcel from the right county's assessor before a listing wins you over.
What's driving Longmont's market?
The price gap to Boulder, mostly. Boulder's single-family median runs about $1,300,000 year to date against Longmont's $610,000: roughly 2.1 times, comparing like to like. Everything else here is context for that one number.
- The employment base is broad. Longmont's job base spans advanced manufacturing, technology, and healthcare, with UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital anchoring the medical side, rather than resting on a single employer. Check the City of Longmont's current major-employer list before you rely on any one name. The roster moves.
- Schools. Longmont is served by St. Vrain Valley Schools, which operates its Innovation Center in the city. Assignment is by address and ratings vary school to school, so confirm any specific home against the district's boundary finder rather than a neighborhood's reputation.
- The commute is being rebuilt. CDOT's CO 119 (Diagonal) project, a nine-mile bikeway plus faster bus service between Longmont and Boulder, is scheduled to finish in spring 2027. Which is to say: after your closing, before your resale.
One local overlay to check before you write an offer: parts of Longmont along the St. Vrain sit in FEMA-mapped floodplain, and map revisions are still working their way through FEMA as the city's Resilient St. Vrain project completes each reach. That affects insurance cost and seller disclosure, and a parcel's status can still change. Water, not wildfire, is Longmont's quiet gotcha.
The honest take
The question underneath all of this is usually the same one: am I selling at the bottom? Nobody can answer that, and anyone who tells you they can is guessing with your money. What we can tell you is that the corridor isn't moving in one direction. Longmont's median is down 2.4% year to date; Loveland's is essentially flat, down about a third of a percent. Both towns are clearing in under three months of supply. That isn't a market in freefall. It's a market that has stopped paying for an ambitious ask. If your house is priced right and prepped, it isn't sitting. And if you're trading up out of it, the softness on your sell side and the tightness on your buy side are the same problem, which is why the money has to be settled before the sign goes in the yard, not after.
We won't publish a band number. We will build your comp set.
A comp set at your price and your product, not a town average. That is a CMA, and it is the honest answer to what your home is worth.
Frequently asked
What is the median home price in Longmont?+
Longmont's single-family median sale price was $599,500 in July 2026, and $610,000 year to date, down about 2.4% from the same period last year (Colorado Association of REALTORS Local Market Update, data from IRES, July 2026). That is the single-family figure, which is the one a move-up buyer actually transacts on. Longmont townhomes and condos are a separate market entirely, with a July median of $415,000. The $800K–$1.5M move-up band trades well above the town median.
Is the Longmont housing market a buyer's or a seller's market?+
By the standard measure, a seller's market. Longmont single-family carries 2.7 months of supply, down from 3.7 a year ago (CAR/IRES, July 2026), and under roughly three months is conventionally read as favoring sellers. It is also tighter than Boulder, which runs 4.5 months. But tight supply is a statement about how quickly homes clear, not about price: Longmont's median is down about 2.4% year to date. Homes are clearing quickly. You will also still compete on price.
Is Longmont tighter than Boulder right now?+
Yes, at the town level, and in July the gap widened rather than narrowed. Longmont single-family runs 2.7 months of supply against Boulder's 4.5 (CAR/IRES, July 2026) — a gap of 1.8 months, up from 1.6 in June, because Longmont tightened from 2.9 while Boulder held flat. The clock says the same thing more starkly: Longmont homes go under contract in 43 days, Boulder homes in 87. The classic move-up trade — sell in Boulder, buy in Longmont — still means selling into the looser, slower market and buying into the tighter, faster one, and July made that direction harder, not easier.
Do Longmont homes sell for asking price?+
Longmont single-family homes sold at 98.7% of list price in July 2026 (CAR/IRES). But that is the LAST list price, after any reductions, and it excludes seller concessions. A home listed at $700,000, cut to $625,000, and sold at $616,875 received 98.7% of list and 88.1% of its original ask. The CAR report publishes no original-list companion figure, so there is no way to bound the reduction phase from this source at all. It is not evidence that prices are holding. It shows only that homes which sell close near their final asking price.
Are home prices falling in Longmont?+
Longmont's single-family median is down about 2.4% year to date, to $610,000 (CAR/IRES, July 2026). That is a small decline in the price of what sold, which is not proof that a given home is worth 2.4% less. And the two windows disagree in sign: on the month, July closed at $599,500 against $570,000 a year earlier, up 5.2%. A town median moves when the mix of homes that traded moves, not only when values change. The instrument that separates the two is a repeat-sales index; the FHFA publishes one quarterly for the Boulder metro area, which includes Longmont.
How often is this report updated?+
Monthly, at this same URL, with a refreshed last-updated date. The figures come from the Colorado Association of REALTORS Local Market Update for Longmont, which is built on IRES MLS data and published roughly four to five weeks after month end — the July 2026 report is stamped current as of August 5, 2026.
Sources & data notes
- All Longmont, Boulder and Loveland figures: Colorado Association of REALTORS Local Market Update, single-family, sold, July 2026 (and year-to-date through July), published free each month by the Loveland-Berthoud Association of REALTORS. The report's own footnote reads: "Current as of August 5, 2026. All data from IRES, LLC and REcolorado. Report © 2026 ShowingTime Plus, LLC." Longmont · Boulder · Loveland. Longmont: median $599,500 (month) / $610,000 YTD; average $677,088; 43 days; 2.7 months of supply (from 3.7 a year ago); 120 sales in July; 98.7% of last list price; inventory 264.
- Loveland comparison: single-family median $539,900 in July and $527,750 year to date (against $529,418 for the same stretch last year, essentially flat), on 125 sales, with 2.8 months of supply. Same source and window as above.
- Basis matters here. These are single-family figures. Longmont townhouse/condo is a separate market (July median $415,000, 74 days on market, 5.0 months of supply — moving the opposite way from single-family) and any blended "Longmont median" mixes the two. Medians, averages, and percent-of-list all exclude seller concessions; the report's asterisk attaches to all three.
- "Percent of list price received" (99%) is measured against the last list price, after any reductions, not the original. It is not evidence that prices are holding.
- Days on market, as this report measures it, is an average running from listing to accepted offer, not to closing.
- Months of supply is inventory divided by the average monthly pending sales of the trailing twelve months, via ShowingTime, which generates the report. Under roughly three is conventionally read as favoring sellers; over six, buyers.
- Mountain Brook as the only residential metro district approved since Longmont reinstated them in February 2019, and Council's subsequent move to limit their creation (Longmont Leader).
- Single-month figures are noisy. The report carries its own caveat that one month can look extreme on a small sample (Longmont: 109 single-family sales in June). We lead with year-to-date for that reason.
- What we do not publish: a months-of-supply or median figure for the $800K–$1.5M band. No public source breaks it out; a direct IRES broker pull is required, and we plan to commission one. We would rather label a town figure honestly than invent a band figure.
- Correction (July 2026): an earlier version of this report cited a blended, all-property-type median of about $555,000, days on market of about 41, and roughly four months of supply described as "balanced." Those were public-portal figures on the wrong basis, and the supply reading was wrong in direction. The single-family data above replaces them.
- St. Vrain Valley Schools ranking and Innovation Center, per St. Vrain Valley Schools. Boundaries are per address; confirm against the district's finder.
- CO 119 (Diagonal) Safety, Mobility and Bikeway project, completion scheduled spring 2027 (CDOT).
- Floodplain mapping and the Resilient St. Vrain Project (City of Longmont). Map revisions are still working their way through FEMA as each reach of the project completes, so a parcel's status can change; confirm any address directly.
- A repeat-sales index (which tracks the same homes selling twice, and so controls for changes in what sold) is the instrument that can separate value from mix. The FHFA House Price Index publishes one quarterly for the Boulder metro area.
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See also: the Longmont market and neighborhood hub · the buy-before-you-sell playbook · bridge loan vs. sale contingency · the Boulder vs. Longmont comparison. External references: CAR Local Market Update — Longmont (IRES data) · Boulder County Assessor · CDOT CO 119 Safety, Mobility & Bikeway project.
Daniel Hsieh is a licensed Colorado real estate broker with True North Boulder, brokered by eXp Realty. Market figures are month-old MLS data and are not a valuation of any specific home; verify any number against current IRES or county data before acting. This report is general market information, not lending, tax, or legal advice: confirm your specifics with your lender, CPA, or attorney.
