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Jamestown vs Lafayette

Jamestown and Lafayette are both in Boulder County. There are 5 homes for sale in Jamestown and 98 in Lafayette as this page loaded. Jamestown is the more expensive of the two: a median asking price of $695,000 against $662,450 in Lafayette, about 5% higher. Homes are moving faster in Lafayette — a median of 38 days on market against 134 in Jamestown. Jamestown is a balanced market right now and Lafayette is a seller's market.

Side by side

MeasureJamestownLafayette
Homes for sale598
New in last 30 days040
Median asking price$695,000$662,450
Median price per sq ft$413$374
Median size (sq ft)1,6241,786
Median bedrooms33
Median days on market13438
Months of supply3.82.4
Sold, last 12 months16491
Median sold price$618,248$709,000
Median days to sell9060
Sold vs asking price98.0%99.0%

The darker figure in each row is the lower price, the shorter wait or the larger number — which of those is the good news depends entirely on whether you are buying or selling.

What each market is doing

Jamestown is a balanced marketBetween three and six months of supply is the range where neither side has the upper hand - well-priced homes sell and buyers still have room to negotiate.
Lafayette is a seller's marketUnder three months of supply means the homes for sale would run out in under three months at the current pace of sales. Sellers tend to hold their price and good homes go quickly.

Jamestown

5
Homes for sale
$695,000
Median asking price
$413
Median per sq ft
134
Median days on market

Lafayette

98
Homes for sale
$662,450
Median asking price
$374
Median per sq ft
38
Median days on market

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Questions people ask

Is Jamestown or Lafayette more expensive?

Jamestown is more expensive. The median asking price is $695,000 in Jamestown against $662,450 in Lafayette. By price per square foot, Jamestown runs $413 and Lafayette $374.

Which moves faster, Jamestown or Lafayette?

Homes for sale in Lafayette have been on the market a median of 38 days, against 134 days in Jamestown. Of the homes that actually closed in the last twelve months, Jamestown took a median of 90 days and Lafayette 60.

Is Jamestown or Lafayette the better market for a buyer?

Jamestown is a balanced market and Lafayette is a seller's market, measured on months of supply — 3.8 months in Jamestown and 2.4 in Lafayette. More months of supply means more choice and more room to negotiate, so on that measure Jamestown is the easier of the two to buy in today. That is the arithmetic, not advice — the right town is the one you want to live in.

How many homes are for sale in Jamestown and Lafayette?

There are 5 homes for sale in Jamestown and 98 in Lafayette as this page loaded, 0 and 40 of them new in the last 30 days.

How current are these figures?

They are not published on a schedule and they are not a monthly snapshot. Both towns are read from the live MLS feed at the same instant, when you open this page, so the two sides are always measured against each other rather than against different weeks.

Both sides of this comparison are recalculated from the live MLS feed at the moment the page loads - neither is a monthly snapshot, and the two are read at the same instant so they are always comparable. Figures cover residential homes for sale; rentals, land and commercial are excluded, as are fractional co-ownership shares, which are priced per share and would distort the medians. Sold figures cover the last twelve complete calendar months. Market data is deemed reliable but not guaranteed - talk to us before making a decision on it.

The listings these figures are drawn from were last changed at the MLS on September 22, 2026 at 7:25 PM Mountain time. The figures themselves are worked out again from scratch every time this page is opened.

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