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Lafayette vs Lyons

Lafayette and Lyons are both in Boulder County. There are 99 homes for sale in Lafayette and 79 in Lyons as this page loaded. Lyons is the more expensive of the two: a median asking price of $875,000 against $639,000 in Lafayette, about 37% higher. Homes are moving faster in Lafayette — a median of 46 days on market against 101 in Lyons. Lafayette is a seller's market right now and Lyons is a buyer's market.

Side by side

MeasureLafayetteLyons
Homes for sale9979
New in last 30 days408
Median asking price$639,000$875,000
Median price per sq ft$356$399
Median size (sq ft)1,7722,208
Median bedrooms33
Median days on market46101
Months of supply2.411.0
Sold, last 12 months49086
Median sold price$707,000$883,000
Median days to sell5997
Sold vs asking price99.0%98.0%

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.
Lyons is a buyer's marketOver six months of supply means there are more homes for sale than the current pace of sales absorbs. Buyers have choice and time, and sellers usually have to compete on price or condition.

Lafayette

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

Lyons

79
Homes for sale
$875,000
Median asking price
$399
Median per sq ft
101
Median days on market

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Questions people ask

Is Lafayette or Lyons more expensive?

Lyons is more expensive. The median asking price is $875,000 in Lyons against $639,000 in Lafayette. By price per square foot, Lafayette runs $356 and Lyons $399.

Which moves faster, Lafayette or Lyons?

Homes for sale in Lafayette have been on the market a median of 46 days, against 101 days in Lyons. Of the homes that actually closed in the last twelve months, Lafayette took a median of 59 days and Lyons 97.

Is Lafayette or Lyons the better market for a buyer?

Lafayette is a seller's market and Lyons is a buyer's market, measured on months of supply — 2.4 months in Lafayette and 11.0 in Lyons. More months of supply means more choice and more room to negotiate, so on that measure Lyons 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 Lyons?

There are 99 homes for sale in Lafayette and 79 in Lyons as this page loaded, 40 and 8 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.