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Lafayette vs Louisville

Lafayette and Louisville are both in Boulder County. There are 99 homes for sale in Lafayette and 75 in Louisville as this page loaded. Louisville is the more expensive of the two: a median asking price of $822,000 against $639,000 in Lafayette, about 29% higher. Homes are moving faster in Lafayette — a median of 46 days on market against 59 in Louisville. Lafayette is a seller's market right now and Louisville is a balanced market.

Side by side

MeasureLafayetteLouisville
Homes for sale9975
New in last 30 days4021
Median asking price$639,000$822,000
Median price per sq ft$356$398
Median size (sq ft)1,7722,158
Median bedrooms33
Median days on market4659
Months of supply2.43.0
Sold, last 12 months490300
Median sold price$707,000$873,500
Median days to sell5951
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.
Louisville 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

Louisville

75
Homes for sale
$822,000
Median asking price
$398
Median per sq ft
59
Median days on market

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Questions people ask

Is Lafayette or Louisville more expensive?

Louisville is more expensive. The median asking price is $822,000 in Louisville against $639,000 in Lafayette. By price per square foot, Lafayette runs $356 and Louisville $398.

Which moves faster, Lafayette or Louisville?

Homes for sale in Lafayette have been on the market a median of 46 days, against 59 days in Louisville. Of the homes that actually closed in the last twelve months, Lafayette took a median of 59 days and Louisville 51.

Is Lafayette or Louisville the better market for a buyer?

Lafayette is a seller's market and Louisville is a balanced market, measured on months of supply — 2.4 months in Lafayette and 3.0 in Louisville. More months of supply means more choice and more room to negotiate, so on that measure Louisville 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 Louisville?

There are 99 homes for sale in Lafayette and 75 in Louisville as this page loaded, 40 and 21 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.