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Lafayette vs Niwot

Lafayette and Niwot are both in Boulder County. There are 99 homes for sale in Lafayette and 36 in Niwot as this page loaded. Niwot is the more expensive of the two: a median asking price of $2,100,000 against $639,000 in Lafayette, about 229% higher. Homes are moving faster in Lafayette — a median of 46 days on market against 82 in Niwot. Lafayette is a seller's market right now and Niwot is a balanced market.

Side by side

MeasureLafayetteNiwot
Homes for sale9936
New in last 30 days408
Median asking price$639,000$2,100,000
Median price per sq ft$356$421
Median size (sq ft)1,7725,139
Median bedrooms35
Median days on market4682
Months of supply2.45.9
Sold, last 12 months49073
Median sold price$707,000$1,425,000
Median days to sell5972
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.
Niwot 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

Niwot

36
Homes for sale
$2,100,000
Median asking price
$421
Median per sq ft
82
Median days on market

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Questions people ask

Is Lafayette or Niwot more expensive?

Niwot is more expensive. The median asking price is $2,100,000 in Niwot against $639,000 in Lafayette. By price per square foot, Lafayette runs $356 and Niwot $421.

Which moves faster, Lafayette or Niwot?

Homes for sale in Lafayette have been on the market a median of 46 days, against 82 days in Niwot. Of the homes that actually closed in the last twelve months, Lafayette took a median of 59 days and Niwot 72.

Is Lafayette or Niwot the better market for a buyer?

Lafayette is a seller's market and Niwot is a balanced market, measured on months of supply — 2.4 months in Lafayette and 5.9 in Niwot. More months of supply means more choice and more room to negotiate, so on that measure Niwot 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 Niwot?

There are 99 homes for sale in Lafayette and 36 in Niwot 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.