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Calhan vs Palmer Lake

Calhan and Palmer Lake are both in El Paso County. There are 25 homes for sale in Calhan and 9 in Palmer Lake as this page loaded. Palmer Lake is the more expensive of the two: a median asking price of $599,000 against $538,000 in Calhan, about 11% higher. Homes are moving faster in Palmer Lake — a median of 65 days on market against 96 in Calhan. Calhan is a buyer's market right now and Palmer Lake is a balanced market.

Side by side

MeasureCalhanPalmer Lake
Homes for sale259
New in last 30 days51
Median asking price$538,000$599,000
Median price per sq ft$268$316
Median size (sq ft)2,0522,462
Median bedrooms43
Median days on market9665
Months of supply9.43.3
Sold, last 12 months3233
Median sold price$532,500$608,000
Median days to sell11280
Sold vs asking price100.0%99.0%

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

Calhan is a buyer's marketOver six months of supply means there are more homes for sale than the current pace of sales absorbs. Buyers have choice and time, and sellers usually have to compete on price or condition.
Palmer Lake 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.

Calhan

25
Homes for sale
$538,000
Median asking price
$268
Median per sq ft
96
Median days on market

Palmer Lake

9
Homes for sale
$599,000
Median asking price
$316
Median per sq ft
65
Median days on market

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Questions people ask

Is Calhan or Palmer Lake more expensive?

Palmer Lake is more expensive. The median asking price is $599,000 in Palmer Lake against $538,000 in Calhan. By price per square foot, Calhan runs $268 and Palmer Lake $316.

Which moves faster, Calhan or Palmer Lake?

Homes for sale in Palmer Lake have been on the market a median of 65 days, against 96 days in Calhan. Of the homes that actually closed in the last twelve months, Calhan took a median of 112 days and Palmer Lake 80.

Is Calhan or Palmer Lake the better market for a buyer?

Calhan is a buyer's market and Palmer Lake is a balanced market, measured on months of supply — 9.4 months in Calhan and 3.3 in Palmer Lake. More months of supply means more choice and more room to negotiate, so on that measure Calhan 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 Calhan and Palmer Lake?

There are 25 homes for sale in Calhan and 9 in Palmer Lake as this page loaded, 5 and 1 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 3:03 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