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Colorado guide
Here is the number that makes Colorado strange. On a home selling at the statewide median of $563,000, the state's real estate transfer charge is $56.
Not $5,600. Fifty-six dollars. Colorado levies a documentary fee on deed recording of one cent per $100 of sale price — 0.01% — and that's the entire statewide charge for transferring real property. In most states this line is the biggest state-specific item on the closing table.
There's a constitutional reason. Article X, §20 of the Colorado Constitution — the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, or TABOR, passed by voters in 1992 — bars the state and every local government from creating a new real estate transfer tax. Not "makes it hard." Bars it.
The catch: roughly 20 mountain resort towns already had one when TABOR passed, and those were grandfathered. Aspen, Vail, Breckenridge, Telluride, and Crested Butte still collect local transfer taxes of 1% to 3% or more. If you're buying in one of them, section 3 is the part to read twice. Otherwise, Colorado's closing costs are real — just not concentrated in a transfer tax. For the mechanics of individual fees, see our full line-by-line breakdown of closing costs.
A note before you start: this is general education, not financial, legal, or tax advice. Every figure below is a statewide number from CalculatorByState's sourced dataset, and your county, municipality, lender, title company, and contract will all move the total. Colorado's median sale price sits inside a wide reported spread depending on methodology. Your Loan Estimate and Closing Disclosure are authoritative — use this to sanity-check them, not to replace them.
A 2-4% inclusive buyer range against Colorado's $563,000 median sale price gives you roughly $11,260 to $22,520, midpoint around $16,890. On a $350,000 purchase the same range is about $7,000 to $14,000.
Read the full Colorado guide →9 min read · Updated 2026-08-24