Chittenden County, VT housing market

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

In Chittenden County, 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 18% 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 Chittenden County, 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 Chittenden County, 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 Chittenden County, VT?

In Chittenden County, VT, the typical home sold in 23 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 30 days. Homes are selling 7 days faster 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 2.9 months to sell every home now on the market in Chittenden County, VT. There are more buyers than homes for sale. Sellers have the edge.

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

Do homes sell above asking price in Chittenden County, VT?

In Chittenden County, VT, 42% of homes sold for more than the asking price during May 2026. The other 58% sold at or below what the seller asked.

Across all sales, the typical home fetched 101% of its asking price. That is above the asking price on average, which means bidding is still happening on the better homes.

26% 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 Chittenden County, 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 Chittenden County, VT area, through May 2026.

Are home prices going up or down in Chittenden County, VT?

In Chittenden County, VT, the typical home sold for $515,000 during May 2026. That is 5% lower than the same stretch a year ago, so prices are down.

Over the last 35 months the typical sale price in Chittenden County, VT went from $500,000 to $515,000 — up 3%.

The high point was $547,631, reached in August 2025. Today's typical sale is 6% below that.

Measured by size, homes in Chittenden County, VT are selling for about $288 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 Chittenden County, VT area, through May 2026.

Is Chittenden County, VT a buyer's market or a seller's market?

Chittenden County, VT is a seller's market right now. There are 446 homes for sale, and at the current pace of sales it would take about 2.9 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. Chittenden County, VT sits at 2.9.

There are more buyers than homes for sale. Sellers have the edge. The typical home took 23 days to go under contract, and 42% of sales closed above the asking price.

The number of homes for sale is 16% higher than a year ago. More choice for buyers means more competition between sellers.

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

Are sellers cutting prices in Chittenden County, VT?

In Chittenden County, VT, 26% 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 (24%).

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: 42% 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 32%, in October 2024.

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 Chittenden County, VT area, through May 2026.

Is the housing market slowing down in Chittenden County, VT?

No real change. 153 homes sold in Chittenden County, VT during May 2026, against 160 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 153 and 160 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: 145 homes sold two years ago, 160 last year, 153 now. Across two years the level has held roughly steady.

What is on the shelf next to what is selling: 446 homes were on the market in Chittenden County, VT, and 153 sold. At that pace it would take about 2.9 months to clear them all. There are more buyers than homes for sale. Sellers have the edge.

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 Chittenden County, VT area, through May 2026.

What is the average home price in Chittenden County, VT?

The typical home in Chittenden County, VT sold for $515,000 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.

Homes currently on the market in Chittenden County, VT are asking a median of $589,450. Do not read the gap between that and $515,000 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 Chittenden County, VT that came to 101%.

Measured by size rather than by house, homes in Chittenden County, VT are selling for about $288 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 5% lower than the same stretch a year ago.

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

How many homes are for sale in Chittenden County, VT?

There are 446 homes for sale in Chittenden County, VT as of May 2026, 16% more than a year ago.

268 homes came on the market during May 2026, and 153 sold. More homes are arriving than leaving, so the number for sale is building.

At this pace it would take about 2.9 months to sell every home currently listed. There are more buyers than homes for sale. Sellers have the edge.

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 Chittenden County, VT area, through May 2026.