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Lafayette vs Longmont

Lafayette and Longmont are both in Boulder County. There are 99 homes for sale in Lafayette and 423 in Longmont as this page loaded. Lafayette is the more expensive of the two: a median asking price of $639,000 against $573,000 in Longmont, about 12% higher. Homes are moving faster in Lafayette — a median of 46 days on market against 56 in Longmont. Lafayette is a seller's market right now and Longmont is a balanced market.

Side by side

MeasureLafayetteLongmont
Homes for sale99423
New in last 30 days40128
Median asking price$639,000$573,000
Median price per sq ft$356$320
Median size (sq ft)1,7721,921
Median bedrooms33
Median days on market4656
Months of supply2.43.3
Sold, last 12 months4901,545
Median sold price$707,000$565,000
Median days to sell5957
Sold vs asking price99.0%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

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.
Longmont 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

99
Homes for sale
$639,000
Median asking price
$356
Median per sq ft
46
Median days on market

Longmont

423
Homes for sale
$573,000
Median asking price
$320
Median per sq ft
56
Median days on market

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Questions people ask

Is Lafayette or Longmont more expensive?

Lafayette is more expensive. The median asking price is $639,000 in Lafayette against $573,000 in Longmont. By price per square foot, Lafayette runs $356 and Longmont $320.

Which moves faster, Lafayette or Longmont?

Homes for sale in Lafayette have been on the market a median of 46 days, against 56 days in Longmont. Of the homes that actually closed in the last twelve months, Lafayette took a median of 59 days and Longmont 57.

Is Lafayette or Longmont the better market for a buyer?

Lafayette is a seller's market and Longmont is a balanced market, measured on months of supply — 2.4 months in Lafayette and 3.3 in Longmont. More months of supply means more choice and more room to negotiate, so on that measure Longmont 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 Lafayette and Longmont?

There are 99 homes for sale in Lafayette and 423 in Longmont as this page loaded, 40 and 128 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.