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Highlands Ranch vs Parker

Highlands Ranch and Parker are both in Douglas County. There are 225 homes for sale in Highlands Ranch and 570 in Parker as this page loaded. Asking prices are roughly the same in both: a median of $679,000 in Highlands Ranch and $675,000 in Parker. Homes are moving faster in Highlands Ranch — a median of 50 days on market against 65 in Parker. Highlands Ranch is a seller's market right now and Parker is a balanced market.

Side by side

MeasureHighlands RanchParker
Homes for sale225570
New in last 30 days86144
Median asking price$679,000$675,000
Median price per sq ft$297$276
Median size (sq ft)2,3532,652
Median bedrooms34
Median days on market5065
Months of supply2.33.8
Sold, last 12 months1,1861,811
Median sold price$703,000$680,000
Median days to sell5461
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

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.
Parker 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

225
Homes for sale
$679,000
Median asking price
$297
Median per sq ft
50
Median days on market

Parker

570
Homes for sale
$675,000
Median asking price
$276
Median per sq ft
65
Median days on market

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Questions people ask

Is Highlands Ranch or Parker more expensive?

Highlands Ranch is more expensive. The median asking price is $679,000 in Highlands Ranch against $675,000 in Parker. By price per square foot, Highlands Ranch runs $297 and Parker $276.

Which moves faster, Highlands Ranch or Parker?

Homes for sale in Highlands Ranch have been on the market a median of 50 days, against 65 days in Parker. Of the homes that actually closed in the last twelve months, Highlands Ranch took a median of 54 days and Parker 61.

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

Highlands Ranch is a seller's market and Parker is a balanced market, measured on months of supply — 2.3 months in Highlands Ranch and 3.8 in Parker. More months of supply means more choice and more room to negotiate, so on that measure Parker 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 Highlands Ranch and Parker?

There are 225 homes for sale in Highlands Ranch and 570 in Parker as this page loaded, 86 and 144 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 November 7, 2026 at 1:16 AM Mountain time. The figures themselves are worked out again from scratch every time this page is opened.

Common questions, answered with live Colorado numbers