Birdseye View | Crested Butte Market Snapshot | Spring 2026
Spring and summer are arriving early due to a much warmer than normal winter. Bikes, hiking shoes and golf clubs are in play ahead of schedule. Home buyers are out and new listings are surfacing early as well, with everything greening up a month early.
Home sales in the Crested Butte area are steady in the first quarter, with another high sale approaching $10 million in Skyland, following a near $12 million sale in Smith Hill Ranches in the fourth quarter of 2025. The average home sale in the north valley is approaching $3.5 million.
Listing inventories are healthy in all of the CB neighborhoods, except in CB South where demand remains very high for value-oriented properties. The average price in Rural CB was nearly $4.5 million or $1451 per square foot for the first time ever.
The condominium market in Mt CB showed slight improvement over this time last year with 16 sales averaging nearly $925,000. Inventory rose nearly 30% to 81 available listings, the most in years.
Value purchases in the north valley led land sales in the first quarter, averaging $513,000 with 115 available parcels, still half of the offerings from a decade ago.
Well positioned properties that present favorably to the market are selling quickly, often with multiple offers. Buyers are patient, yet intent when strong properties enter the market.
Bluebird led the market with the most sales last year and so far, this year of any brokerage in the Gunnison valley. The firm has also introduced the highest number of new listings to the market year to date.
As Bluebird enters its tenth year in business this spring, we are dedicated to delivering exceptional marketing, astute communications and most importantly, successful results for our clients.
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