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Fort Collins 80526 is in Larimer County, CO, part of the Fort Collins Metro. The typical home value in Fort Collins 80526 is $530,407 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), up 0.1% from a year earlier. Homes that sold went under contract in a median 44 days, and 24% of listings took a price cut (Redfin Data Center, period ending Sep 30, 2026). On Lotvox's market-leverage reading of that data, with 3.4 months of supply, sellers hold a slight edge. Lotvox scores all 15,084 homes in 80526 with county records every night with its Turnover Index; in a held-out test, the top fifth of scored homes accounted for 28.9% of the 388 sales that followed, against 20% by chance (scored Oct 25, 2026). Across Larimer County's 17 ZIPs with a Zillow value, the middle one is $552,670, so 80526 sits 4% below the county middle. Typical rent is $2,050 a month (Zillow Observed Rent Index, September 2026). Lotvox holds county assessor records for 15,523 properties in 80526.
Headline value data through September 2026. Each source below carries its own date.
Is 80526 a buyer's or seller's market?
By Lotvox's leverage reading of Redfin data through Sep 30, 2026, 80526 is a seller's market, narrowly. Homes went under contract in a median 44 days with 3.4 months of supply.
What do homes in 80526 sell for?
The typical home value in 80526 is $530,407 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), up 0.1% in a year. County records put the median at about $168 per square foot (computed Jul 26, 2026).
Who is likely to sell in 80526?
Lotvox's Turnover Index ranks every home in 80526 by how likely it is to sell, from county deed and parcel records, scored nightly. In a held-out test its top fifth held 28.9% of later sales, against 20% by chance.
How does 80526 compare to Larimer County?
80526's typical value of $530,407 compares with a middle value of $552,670 across Larimer County's 17 ZIPs. Both are Zillow Home Value Index figures for September 2026.
Where does this 80526 data come from?
Values and rents come from Zillow's research data, sales pace from the Redfin Data Center, and property counts and turnover from county assessor and deed records. Each number on this page carries its own date, and the method is published at lotvox.com/methodology.
Cite as: Lotvox ZIP market record, 80526 Fort Collins, CO, data through September 2026, https://lotvox.com/fort-collins/zip/80526
Listings Flow Ladder — 80526
Faucet, basin and drain — new listings in, active inventory, closed sales out.as of Sep 30, 2026
the basin is fillingnet 6 listings/mo
Faucet — new listings
54/mo
75% of normal (73) · trickle
Basin — active listings
164
121% of normal (136) · low· baseline thin
Months of supply
3.4 mo
derived — not published at this grain
Drain — closed sales
48/mo
63% of normal (76)
Net — faucet minus drain
+6/mo
filling
Reading
current
as of 2026-09-30
Compare against:2015-01-01 to 2019-12-31 · 5 same-month points
How plugged is the drain? Two definitions, both ours, deliberately not reconciled.
47%Absorption vs its own normal— 1 - (closed sales / active listings) / same-month median of that ratio
37%Closed sales vs its own normal— 1 - closed sales per month / same-month median closed sales per month
Closed sales over 24 months — two different numbers, deliberately not merged.
14/mofall in the monthly rate (23%)— peak 62/mo (2026-07-31) to 48/mo now
422transactions that did not happen— summed monthly shortfall vs the same-month normal, over 24 months below it (vs 2015-19 (COVID excluded))
rate_drop_from_peak is a change in the monthly rate; cumulative_shortfall_vs_normal counts transactions not transacted. They are different quantities and are not interchangeable.
2026-09-30
Redfin market data (county + ZIP), via Lotvox. As of 2026-09-30. Normal = same-month median of monthly rates, minimum 3 same-month points. Source window 3 months (flows shown per month). months_of_supply is not published at this grain (0 non-null rows measured); derived here as active listings / closed sales per month. A fresher supply-only read (54 new, 136 active, 2026-09-01, Realtor.com inventory (county + ZIP), via Lotvox) is available but is NOT used in the net — that source publishes no closed sales, so subtracting across it would mix two vintages.
Should you buy here?
buyer-timing lens
39affordability /100
Buyer leverage is seller slight; weigh payment burden and the 3-lens valuation before bidding.
Payment burden
39.3%
severe
Days on market
44
daily
Price cuts
24.3%
of active
Valuation
+3.5%
vs assessor
Days on market and price cuts: Redfin Data Center, rolling 90 days.
Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.
Buyer / seller
buyer-timing lens
Balanced Market
Needs 23.7% correction for affordability
DOM: 64d (stable) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly
Score Components
Payment Burden (25%)75
Valuation Gap (25%)10
Supply & Demand (20%)20
Buy vs Rent (15%)75
Cancellation Rate (10%)0
Days on Market (5%)75
Balanced market in 80526. List price is roughly fair — focus on condition and value. Payment burden: 37.2% of median income. A 6% price correction needed to reach 30% affordability threshold. Median days on market: 64. Renting is approximately 95% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 23.4).
Balanced market conditions. Prices roughly aligned with fundamentals — similar to stable periods in 2014-2015.
STABLESELLER SLIGHT
Market is holding steady with balanced conditions. Sellers hold a slight edge.
Turnover Index · Live in this ZIPBacktest: 28.9% of later sellers were already in the top 20% (random = 20%, 388 held-out sales) · 15,084 parcels scored nightly
Median price: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). Median rent: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). Days on market and active listings: Redfin Data Center, rolling 90 days.
Valuation
3 lenses, different anchors
vs assessor
+3.5%
Market vs assessed value — a tax-roll lag, not a deal signal.
Avg assessor$549,100
county CAMA · properties_v
vs income
—
Fair-value model not available for this market.
fair_value_scores · 10-state coverage
vs county comps
+63.2%
County-wide market — the widest, slowest signal.
Larimer+63.2%
Lotvox comps · mv_valuation_gap
Read together: Above county comps but sustainable on local incomes.
in 6,096 · out 6,429 · Larimer County, CO (parent county of this ZIP)
active inventory
as of 2026-07-01 · IRS SOI county-to-county migration flows 2022-2023 + Redfin inventory history
Price bands
mix-shift
Price Bands — the median behind the median
A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from the most recent recorded sale per property in Larimer.
Current tiers · 12 months to Apr 26floor 10 sales/tier
2 tiers had too few sales in this ZIP and are shown at county or metro level — see the stamp on each row.
Tier
Median
$/sqft
Sales
Share
Source
Under $250k
$210k
$277
39
6.6%
ZIP
$250k–$500k
$415k
$323
224
38.0%
ZIP
$500k–$750k
$570k
$358
236
40.1%
ZIP
$750k–$1M
$840k
$355
55
9.3%
ZIP
$1M–$1.5M
$1.18M
$470
24
4.1%
ZIP
$1.5M–$2M
$1.69M
$607
127
—
COUNTY · Larimer, CO
$2M+
$3.00M
$643
177
—
COUNTY · Larimer, CO
All sales (the headline median)
$523k
$341
589
100%
ZIP
No mix-shift history for this area. no geography from this ZIP up to metro has 8+ quarters of 10+ recorded arms-length sales across at least 4 price tiers. Trends are drawn only from recorded transactions; the last-sale snapshot above cannot carry a time series, because a property that sold twice keeps only its latest sale — which drags the history upward through the tiers and would invent the very mix shift this section exists to test for.
National context — not local
NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the West census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 80526.
United States
West
Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.
Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Apr 26 (5 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.
ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.
ZIP 80526→Larimer County, COPop: 374,387
12-Month Direction
-9Stable
Confidence
100%
DeterioratingStableImproving
BuildersLens Market Intelligence
Market Score
36· Weak
Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.
Payment Burden
39.3%
severe
Source: Freddie Mac PMMS (FRED MORTGAGE30US) 7.32% · Zillow ZHVI · Census income · Updated 2026-10-22
Price-to-rent
21.6x
favors renting
Source: Zillow ZHVI ÷ (Zillow ZORI × 12)
Valuation14
+63.2%
overvalued
Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15
Supply/Demand
3.4 mo
balanced
Source: Redfin Data Center (ZIP): inventory ÷ monthly homes sold · Updated 2026-09-30
Insurance Risk
34/100
moderate
Source: FEMA/NFIP · Updated 2026-04
County distress indicators
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Economic indicators are mixed relative to comparable U.S. counties.
Unemployment Rate
4.4%
CO 3.8%US 4.4%
Near national averages
Source: BLS LAUS · 2026-0855d ago
Poverty Rate
10.2%
CO 9.4%US 12.6%
Near national averages
Median Household Income
$91,364
CO $94,510US $82,006
Higher than most U.S. counties
Cost of Living (RPP)
112.5
CO 111.8US 100.3
Higher than many comparable counties
Home Value (ZHVI)$556,492
County data: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), BLS, Census ACS, CDC, FBI UCR, Federal Reserve, USDA
Typical home value: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI); change is the 12-month change.
Owner stock, age of householder
Tenure by age of householder (ACS B25007) is not published below county. Any ZIP figure here is DERIVED from the county's age-specific owner rates applied to this ZIP's own age structure — never read directly.
Derived — this ZIP
11.1% in 2023
of owner-occupied homes have a householder 75 or older
