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Aurora vs Highlands Ranch

Aurora and Highlands Ranch are both Colorado towns. There are 1,870 homes for sale in Aurora and 208 in Highlands Ranch as this page loaded. Highlands Ranch is the more expensive of the two: a median asking price of $672,450 against $449,000 in Aurora, about 50% higher. Homes are moving faster in Highlands Ranch — a median of 47 days on market against 60 in Aurora. Aurora is a balanced market right now and Highlands Ranch is a seller's market.

Side by side

MeasureAuroraHighlands Ranch
Homes for sale1,870208
New in last 30 days51582
Median asking price$449,000$672,450
Median price per sq ft$249$294
Median size (sq ft)1,6852,396
Median bedrooms33
Median days on market6047
Months of supply4.02.0
Sold, last 12 months5,6381,257
Median sold price$470,000$705,000
Median days to sell6953
Sold vs asking price100.0%100.0%

The darker figure in each row is the lower price, the shorter wait or the larger number — which of those is the good news depends entirely on whether you are buying or selling.

What each market is doing

Aurora is a balanced marketBetween three and six months of supply is the range where neither side has the upper hand - well-priced homes sell and buyers still have room to negotiate.
Highlands Ranch is a seller's marketUnder three months of supply means the homes for sale would run out in under three months at the current pace of sales. Sellers tend to hold their price and good homes go quickly.

Aurora

1,870
Homes for sale
$449,000
Median asking price
$249
Median per sq ft
60
Median days on market

Highlands Ranch

208
Homes for sale
$672,450
Median asking price
$294
Median per sq ft
47
Median days on market

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Questions people ask

Is Aurora or Highlands Ranch more expensive?

Highlands Ranch is more expensive. The median asking price is $672,450 in Highlands Ranch against $449,000 in Aurora. By price per square foot, Aurora runs $249 and Highlands Ranch $294.

Which moves faster, Aurora or Highlands Ranch?

Homes for sale in Highlands Ranch have been on the market a median of 47 days, against 60 days in Aurora. Of the homes that actually closed in the last twelve months, Aurora took a median of 69 days and Highlands Ranch 53.

Is Aurora or Highlands Ranch the better market for a buyer?

Aurora is a balanced market and Highlands Ranch is a seller's market, measured on months of supply — 4.0 months in Aurora and 2.0 in Highlands Ranch. More months of supply means more choice and more room to negotiate, so on that measure Aurora is the easier of the two to buy in today. That is the arithmetic, not advice — the right town is the one you want to live in.

How many homes are for sale in Aurora and Highlands Ranch?

There are 1,870 homes for sale in Aurora and 208 in Highlands Ranch as this page loaded, 515 and 82 of them new in the last 30 days.

How current are these figures?

They are not published on a schedule and they are not a monthly snapshot. Both towns are read from the live MLS feed at the same instant, when you open this page, so the two sides are always measured against each other rather than against different weeks.

Both sides of this comparison are recalculated from the live MLS feed at the moment the page loads - neither is a monthly snapshot, and the two are read at the same instant so they are always comparable. Figures cover residential homes for sale; rentals, land and commercial are excluded, as are fractional co-ownership shares, which are priced per share and would distort the medians. Sold figures cover the last twelve complete calendar months. Market data is deemed reliable but not guaranteed - talk to us before making a decision on it.

The listings these figures are drawn from were last changed at the MLS on September 22, 2026 at 9:27 PM Mountain time. The figures themselves are worked out again from scratch every time this page is opened.

Common questions, answered with live Colorado numbers