Burlington, VT housing market

When is the best month to sell a house in Burlington, VT?

In Burlington, VT, homes have sold for the most in June and the least in February. Over the last three years the gap between those two months worked out to about 19% of a typical year's price.

The short version: list in June if you want the highest price, and expect February to be the softest month of the year.

Speed follows a slightly different calendar. Homes in Burlington, VT have gone under contract fastest in June. That is not always the same month prices peak, because the busiest month usually brings the most competition from other sellers too.

The most homes come on the market in May. More listings means more buyers looking, but also more homes competing with yours.

This is based on three years of Redfin's published sales data for the Burlington, VT area, through May 2026. It is a pattern, not a promise — one house in good condition priced correctly beats the calendar every time.

How long does it take to sell a house in Burlington, VT?

In Burlington, VT, the typical home sold in 37 days on the market during May 2026. That is the middle of the range — half of homes sold faster, half took longer.

A year ago the typical home took 29 days. Homes are taking 8 days longer now.

Days on the market counts the time from the day a home is listed to the day it goes under contract. It does not include the weeks between the accepted offer and the closing table, which usually adds another month.

For context: at the current pace of sales, it would take about 3.4 months to sell every home now on the market in Burlington, VT. Buyers and sellers are about evenly matched right now.

Source: Redfin's published market data for the Burlington, VT area, through May 2026.

Do homes sell above asking price in Burlington, VT?

In Burlington, VT, 40% of homes sold for more than the asking price during May 2026. The other 60% sold at or below what the seller asked.

Across all sales, the typical home fetched 100% of its asking price. That is a discount of about 0% off asking on a typical sale.

27% of the homes on the market cut their price during the same stretch. A high number there and a low number above asking usually means sellers are starting too high.

A share this high means well-priced homes in Burlington, VT are still drawing competing offers. If you are buying, expect to need your best number first.

Source: Redfin's published market data for the Burlington, VT area, through May 2026.

Are home prices going up or down in Burlington, VT?

In Burlington, VT, the typical home sold for $475,000 during May 2026. That is 6% lower than the same stretch a year ago, so prices are down.

Over the last 35 months the typical sale price in Burlington, VT went from $455,000 to $475,000 — up 4%.

The high point was $525,000, reached in August 2025. Today's typical sale is 10% below that.

Measured by size, homes in Burlington, VT are selling for about $270 per square foot. Price per square foot is the fairer comparison when the mix of what sells shifts from month to month — a run of big houses can push the typical price up without anything actually getting more expensive.

Source: Redfin's published market data for the Burlington, VT area, through May 2026.

Is Burlington, VT a buyer's market or a seller's market?

Burlington, VT is a balanced market right now. There are 704 homes for sale, and at the current pace of sales it would take about 3.4 months to sell all of them.

The rule of thumb agents use: under three months of homes for sale favors sellers, over five months favors buyers, and in between is a fair fight. Burlington, VT sits at 3.4.

Buyers and sellers are about evenly matched right now. The typical home took 37 days to go under contract, and 40% of sales closed above the asking price.

The number of homes for sale is 20% higher than a year ago. More choice for buyers means more competition between sellers.

Source: Redfin's published market data for the Burlington, VT area, through May 2026.

Are sellers cutting prices in Burlington, VT?

In Burlington, VT, 27% of the homes on the market cut their asking price during May 2026 — roughly 3 in every 10 listings. That is about where it was a year earlier (26%).

A price cut means a home was listed, did not sell at that number, and the seller lowered it. It is the clearest sign of the gap between what sellers are asking and what buyers will pay, and it shows up months before it shows up in sale prices.

The share has barely moved against a year ago, which means sellers and buyers are about as far apart as they were then — no better, no worse.

The other side of the same market: 40% of homes here sold for MORE than the asking price. Read the two together: the well-priced homes still move, the ambitious ones do not.

Over the last 35 months the highest this got was 31%, in October 2025.

If you are selling here, the number to take from this is that about 3 in 10 of your competitors got their first price wrong. If you are buying, a home that has already been cut once is a seller who has accepted that the market disagreed with them.

One caution: price cuts are seasonal everywhere. Listings that sit through the summer get cut in the fall. That is why the honest comparison is to the same month a year ago, which is the one we show, rather than to last month.

Source: Redfin's published market data for the Burlington, VT area, through May 2026.

Is the housing market slowing down in Burlington, VT?

No real change. 209 homes sold in Burlington, VT during May 2026, against 213 in the same months a year earlier. That gap is small enough to be ordinary month-to-month variation rather than a trend.

This page is about how many homes changed hands, not what they cost. The two move separately: prices are set by the homes that did sell, and volume tells you how many people managed to transact at all. A market can hold its prices while activity quietly drains out of it.

We call this unchanged deliberately. The difference between 209 and 213 sales is inside the range that a normal month produces on its own, so calling it a decline or a recovery would be reading a story into noise.

The longer view, all measured over the May window so the season is held constant: 204 homes sold two years ago, 213 last year, 209 now. Across two years the level has held roughly steady.

What is on the shelf next to what is selling: 704 homes were on the market in Burlington, VT, and 209 sold. At that pace it would take about 3.4 months to clear them all. Buyers and sellers are about evenly matched right now.

Every comparison on this page is to the SAME calendar months a year earlier, never to last month. Home sales roughly double between January and May in most of the country, so a month-over-month reading would tell you about the season and nothing about the market.

Source: Redfin's published market data for the Burlington, VT area, through May 2026.

What is the average home price in Burlington, VT?

The typical home in Burlington, VT sold for $475,000 during May 2026. That is the median — half of the homes that sold went for more than that, half for less.

Almost everyone searches for the "average" price, and almost every published figure — including this one — is the median instead. The difference matters. A true average is dragged upward by a handful of very expensive sales, so in a metro with a few multi-million-dollar homes it can sit well above anything an ordinary buyer would ever pay. The median is simply the sale in the middle of the list, which is why it is the number that describes a normal home.

Of the 764 metro areas we track, Burlington, VT is the 111th most expensive. The metro in the middle of that list sits at $295,938, so a typical home here costs about 61% more than one in a typical American metro area.

That middle-metro figure of $295,938 is usually lower than the national number you see quoted, and the reason is worth knowing. It counts every metro area once, from the largest to the smallest. Weight each metro by how many homes it actually sells instead, and the typical American sale comes out nearer $445,949, because the big expensive metros do a disproportionate share of the country's transacting. Both are true; they answer different questions.

Homes currently on the market in Burlington, VT are asking a median of $529,750. Do not read the gap between that and $475,000 as a discount you can expect to negotiate. Those are two different sets of homes — one is what sold, the other is what has not sold yet — and asking prices skew high precisely because the homes priced too high are the ones still sitting there. The honest measure is what each home got against its own asking price, and in Burlington, VT that came to 100%.

Measured by size rather than by house, homes in Burlington, VT are selling for about $270 per square foot. That is the fairer comparison when you are weighing one neighborhood against another, or this year against last, because the typical price moves whenever the mix of what happens to sell shifts — a run of large houses lifts it without anything actually getting more expensive.

This page is about what a home costs, not which way that is heading. For the record, the figure is 6% lower than the same stretch a year ago.

Source: Redfin's published market data for the Burlington, VT area, through May 2026.

How many homes are for sale in Burlington, VT?

There are 704 homes for sale in Burlington, VT as of May 2026, 20% more than a year ago.

370 homes came on the market during May 2026, and 209 sold. More homes are arriving than leaving, so the number for sale is building.

At this pace it would take about 3.4 months to sell every home currently listed. Buyers and sellers are about evenly matched right now.

A count like this moves with the season everywhere in the country — listings build through spring and thin out over the winter. The number worth watching is how it compares to the same month a year ago, which is why we show that too.

Source: Redfin's published market data for the Burlington, VT area, through May 2026.