Martin Acres East – Tantra / Hy View, Boulder: home prices, who is buying, and how homes really sell here

Updated September 2026 · Based on 154 recorded sales Jan 2021 – Sep 2026, 60 verified asking prices and 157 classified buyers

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The pocket south of Table Mesa Drive — the eastern edge of Martin Acres, the 1960s–70s Hy View ranches and split-levels, and the Tantra Park condos along West Moorhead Circle — is where South Boulder gets affordable: a 2025–26 median of $900K for a house and $349K for a condo. It is also one of the two fastest-moving sub-markets in the city, tied with Heatherwood. Homes sell in a median 34 days at 100% of asking, nearly half close over the asking price, and fewer than one listing in fifteen is still available after two months.

The neighborhood

This sub-market is the south-eastern corner of the city proper, roughly the blocks between Broadway's commercial strip at Table Mesa and the US-36 corridor, running south from Table Mesa Drive along Moorhead Avenue, Hartford Drive and Tantra Drive to Tantra Park and the Skunk Creek and Bear Creek greenways. The eastern blocks of Martin Acres north of Table Mesa are included; the rest was platted as the Hy View subdivision and built out between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s, a decade after Martin Acres, which shows in the stock: brick ranches, tri-levels and split-levels with attached garages on 7,000 sq ft lots, larger and a little more varied than the 1950s tract to the north. The median home that sold here since 2021 was built in 1970 and has 1,426 sq ft, three bedrooms and one and a half baths.

The other third of the market is attached. The Tantra Park condominiums on West Moorhead Circle — 1970s garden-style buildings with studios, one- and two-bedroom units of 500–1,050 sq ft, clubhouses, pools and tennis courts run by the associations — sit against the park and the creek path, and they are the deepest pool of sub-$400K ownership in South Boulder. Tantra Park itself, at the south end of the pocket, has a paved multi-use path, playground, sports fields, a picnic shelter and a crowdfunded slackline course, and shares parking and grounds with the adjacent school. The South Boulder Recreation Center and the Table Mesa shopping center are a short walk or ride, and the greenway paths run north to campus — about 2.5 miles by bike.

The location is built for commuters: the Table Mesa Park-n-Ride and its Flatiron Flyer service to Denver are at the north-east corner, the SKIP bus runs Broadway every ten minutes, and US-36 is at the door — which also means the eastern-most blocks hear it. Schools are Creekside Elementary, Southern Hills Middle and Fairview High. Turnover is about 25 sales a year, with condos making up 29% of them.

Where Martin Acres East – Tantra / Hy View is

Map centered on the 154 geocoded sales in assessor neighborhood 150; the neighborhood boundary is the Boulder County Assessor's appraisal area, not a formal city boundary.

Homes and prices in Martin Acres East – Tantra / Hy View

Two products, two prices. Houses are 71% of sales and carry a 2025–26 median of $900K — the same money as Martin Acres proper for a slightly newer, slightly larger house — while the Tantra Park condos have a median of $349K, and the blended $750K median sits 21% below Boulder's. At $511 per square foot the sub-market is 7% cheaper per foot than the city, one of the smallest discounts among Boulder's sub-$1M areas, because the houses are on good lots and the condos are close to the trail and the bus. The middle half of all sales fell between $459K and $953K, and the most expensive sale since 2021 was $1.32M.

The typical home sold in 2025–26 has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths and 1,426 sq ft, on a 7,174 sq ft lot; the median build year is 1970, with 0.0% of homes built before 1950 and 0.0% since 2000. Prices run from $253K to $1.32M.

Median sale price by year

Single-family houses   Condos & townhomes   (labels: sales per year, houses / condos)

Medians move with the mix of what sold each year (a run of large rebuilds lifts the house number); a bar is omitted when fewer than three of that type sold. Read the trend, not single-year steps.

What it takes to buy here

At the 2025–26 median of $750,000, a conventional purchase with 20% down at a 6.76% 30-year rate costs about $4,458 a month including taxes and insurance, which lenders would typically want to see backed by a household income near $191,060 and roughly $165,000 in cash at closing. 34.1% of all Boulder sales in 2025–26 closed below this neighborhood's median.

Who is buying in Martin Acres East – Tantra / Hy View

Buyers here look like Boulder's professional middle. Tech (14.6%) and the university and research labs (14.6%) tie for the largest group, both close to the city-wide shares of 15.7% and 12.4%. What stands out is consulting and professional services at 12.7% against 8.8% for Boulder — the accounting and consulting industry alone is over-represented by about a third — and government buyers at 5.7%, double the city rate of 2.8%, a mix that fits the federal labs a mile north on Broadway. Self-employed buyers (2.5% against 6.1%) and nonprofit buyers (1.3% against 4.2%) are notably scarce. 16% of purchases are cash, below Boulder's 20.5%; the rest are financed, and the condos in particular are a first-time buyer market.

Share of 157 classified buyers on 106 transactions with an identified employer; industry attribution only, no individual buyer identified.

How Martin Acres East – Tantra / Hy View prices — and how to play it

A   Ownify competitiveness index 88 / 100 — the highest grade Ownify assigns, which in Boulder means sells at or over asking: homes with these characteristics in this sub-market are expected to close at or above the asking price more often than almost anywhere else in the city. The sub-$1M price point, the small number of listings each year and the commuter location keep several buyers on every well-priced home.

If you are selling

The convention here is to list about 3% above market value — a median ask of 103.2% of value — and to get all of it: the median sale is 100% of asking, and 48% of sales close over ask, nearly double the Boulder share of 25%. Ownify's Boulder model puts the probability of selling in the listing at 89% for an ask at the convention, 88% at 108% of value and 86% at 112%. The odds are flat, so the real cost of a bolder ask is time: Boulder listings at or below 105% of value sell in a median 38 days, those at 110–120% in 49 and above 120% in 55, against a median of 34 days here. Because 93% of the asking price passes through to the sale price, pricing a few percent above value is the right default — but not more, since the bidders who push half of these sales over asking need a number they can clear.

Only 7% of listings here are still on the market after 60 days, the lowest share of any Boulder sub-market of this size, so a home that has not sold in six weeks is mis-priced or has a problem buyers can see. For condos, the association's finances and any pending special assessment matter as much as the finish; for houses, a garage, a finished lower level and a lot away from the highway are what the market pays for.

If you are buying

This is not a sub-market to bid under asking. Only 38% of sales close below ask, the median sale is at the asking price, and just 7% of listings survive 60 days, so a home that is still available is either freshly listed or flawed. On a well-kept house at value, plan to offer at or above asking in the first week with clean terms; the bidding gets competitive in the $800K–$1M band because it is one of the last places in the city where a family house costs that. Both products sit inside the Ownify Home Fund's $1M ceiling (2% down) — 86% of sales here since 2021 closed under $1M — and with a 2025–26 median of $349K, the Tantra Park condos are among the cheapest ownership in Boulder that is next to a park and a bike path. Cash buyers make up only 16% of purchases here, so a financed offer competes.

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