Revolutionizing · Modernizing · SimplifyingRevolutionizing · Modernizing · SimplifyingManitou Springs and Palmer Lake are both in El Paso County. There are 18 homes for sale in Manitou Springs 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 $547,500 in Manitou Springs, about 9% higher. Homes are moving faster in Palmer Lake — a median of 65 days on market against 97 in Manitou Springs. Manitou Springs is a buyer's market right now and Palmer Lake is a balanced market.
| Measure | Manitou Springs | Palmer Lake |
|---|---|---|
| Homes for sale | 18 | 9 |
| New in last 30 days | 3 | 1 |
| Median asking price | $547,500 | $599,000 |
| Median price per sq ft | $337 | $316 |
| Median size (sq ft) | 1,964 | 2,462 |
| Median bedrooms | 3 | 3 |
| Median days on market | 97 | 65 |
| Months of supply | 7.2 | 3.3 |
| Sold, last 12 months | 30 | 33 |
| Median sold price | $651,500 | $608,000 |
| Median days to sell | 70 | 80 |
| Sold vs asking price | 97.0% | 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.
Palmer Lake is more expensive. The median asking price is $599,000 in Palmer Lake against $547,500 in Manitou Springs. By price per square foot, Manitou Springs runs $337 and Palmer Lake $316.
Homes for sale in Palmer Lake have been on the market a median of 65 days, against 97 days in Manitou Springs. Of the homes that actually closed in the last twelve months, Manitou Springs took a median of 70 days and Palmer Lake 80.
Manitou Springs is a buyer's market and Palmer Lake is a balanced market, measured on months of supply — 7.2 months in Manitou Springs and 3.3 in Palmer Lake. More months of supply means more choice and more room to negotiate, so on that measure Manitou Springs 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.
There are 18 homes for sale in Manitou Springs and 9 in Palmer Lake as this page loaded, 3 and 1 of them new in the last 30 days.
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 21, 2026 at 8:46 PM Mountain time. The figures themselves are worked out again from scratch every time this page is opened.