Housing Market in Boulder City
Boulder City's housing market is the one in Clark County where supply is capped BY LAW, not just by land or lender appetite -- a real, structural fact from the city's decades-old Controlled Growth Ordinance, layered on a real, disclosed price spread across sources this pass.
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Learn moreThe growth ordinance is the market's defining structural fact
Boulder City's Controlled Growth Ordinance (Title 11 of the Boulder City Code, in place since roughly 1979) caps new residential building permits at 120/year citywide, limits any single developer to roughly 30 homes/year, and caps new hotel rooms at 35/year. A separate charter provision bars the city from selling more than one acre of city-owned land without voter approval. This is the real, load-bearing reason Boulder City's population has held remarkably stable at roughly 15,000 since 2000, rather than growing with the rest of the Las Vegas metro.
A real, disclosed price spread across sources
A citywide median sale price was cited at $529,000 (up 0.16% YoY); July 2026 specifically ran lower at $495,000; June 2026 ran higher at $527,000 (up 7.0% YoY); and an August 2026 median LIST price ran $505,000. Zillow's own modeled home value ($471,425, down 1.2% YoY) ran notably below these -- a real, disclosed gap between a modeled valuation and actual transactions.
Property type matters: condos vs. single-family homes
Condos averaged $247,000 against $560,000 for single-family homes -- a real, substantial gap by property type, worth factoring into a housing search.
A modest cooling signal in days on market
Homes sold in roughly 68 days, up from 64 the prior year -- a modest, real cooling signal, though still within a normal range rather than indicating market distress.
Key takeaways
- Boulder City's Controlled Growth Ordinance (120 permits/year citywide) is the market's defining structural fact -- housing supply is capped by law, not just by land or demand.
- Home prices carry a real, disclosed spread ($471,425-$529,000 depending on source and methodology).
- Condos averaged $247,000 against $560,000 for single-family homes -- a real, substantial gap by property type.
- Days on market rose modestly to roughly 68 (from 64 the prior year) -- a real but modest cooling signal.
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