Market data, measured 2026-08-17
Colorado's smaller metros are gaining inventory while the big ones shrink.
Correction, 2026-08-21. An earlier version of this page led with "Colorado Springs carries more active listings than Denver." That was wrong. It compared the CITY of Denver against effectively the whole Colorado Springs market, which is a municipal boundary artifact rather than a finding. At the metro level Denver has roughly three times the inventory. The counts below are CITY level and are labelled as such.
Year over year, Colorado Springs active inventory is up 8.2% and Pueblo is up 14.1%, while Denver is down 2.9% and Boulder is down 7.8%. Phoenix is down 2.7% and Tucson down 5.0%.
Those metro figures are not ours. They are from Realtor.com's free public metro inventory file, July 2026, and you can check them yourself.
What we publish below is different and narrower: the active listings we hold in our own data, by CITY, because our software needs them. It is not a metro total and it is not a claim about total market inventory.
Active listings in our data, by city
| City | State | Active listings |
|---|---|---|
| Colorado Springs | Colorado | 6,885 |
| Phoenix | Arizona | 5,421 |
| Tucson | Arizona | 5,257 |
| Denver | Colorado | 4,862 |
| Scottsdale | Arizona | 2,597 |
| Mesa | Arizona | 2,459 |
| Aurora | Colorado | 2,225 |
| Gilbert | Arizona | 1,194 |
| Boulder | Colorado | 1,163 |
| Prescott | Arizona | 1,113 |
| Fort Collins | Colorado | 1,101 |
| Chandler | Arizona | 939 |
| Loveland | Colorado | 722 |
| Longmont | Colorado | 676 |
How this was measured, and what it is not
These are active listings present in our own data as of 2026-08-17, counted by city name, not by metro area. That distinction matters and it is what the correction above is about. Denver the city is not Denver the metro: Aurora is listed here separately, and Lakewood, Arvada, Westminster, Centennial, Littleton, Highlands Ranch, Broomfield, Parker and Castle Rock are not in this table at all.
Do not compare two cities in this table and conclude anything about their metros. That is the mistake we made. For metro comparisons use Realtor.com's free file, which is where the year over year figures at the top come from.
This is not a claim about total market inventory, and we are not going to pretend it is. It is what we can see and measure, published with the date on it so you can judge it. If your own numbers differ, yours are probably closer for your market, and we would genuinely like to hear it.
No projections, no rankings we cannot defend, no forecast. Just the counts and the date.
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