Lafayette Colorado Real Estate - and Buying & Selling Lafayette Homes   Lafayette Colorado real estate is a community of 26,000 residents located north of the Broomfield and Louisville real estate area.  Lafayette shares many of the same Colorado qualities as Louisville but also has its own unique charm and a slightly less urban, more rural feel.  Lafayette is located in the southeast potion of Boulder County, 18 miles north of Denver, 10 miles east of Boulder, and just south of Erie Colorado.   Lafayette’s greatest assets is their location, as it provides residents with panoramic views of the Rocky Mountains, and some of the best access to Colorado’s active lifestyle and recreational activities. Lafayette real estate and the surrounding region have over 1.500 square miles of parks and open space and a little under 5,000 miles of unimpaired streams and waterways - and it's not uncommon to see lots of wildlife including coyotes, foxes, mule deer, prairie dogs, ground squirrels, and many birds of prey; like red-tailed hawks.  Lafayette Colorado also has an impressive network of biking, walking/jogging and hiking trails.  The spectacular Rocky Mountains are within view of most homes for sale and there is outstanding and world-renowned rock-climbing, hiking, and mountain biking only 25 minutes from Lafayette. 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Lafayette Colorado Real Estate: The Lafayette Colorado real estate market in the Denver MLS search and the LAF search term.  The recent homes Sales Statistics for Lafayette real estate are phenomiunal, as the Lafayette area leads ALL Denver MLS searches for the highest sales growth in 2007 - at +14.65% MORE homes SOLD compaerd to 2006!!!    Despite the high number of Lafayette and other Weld County foreclosure homes for sale, Lafayette Colorado real estate is HOT - with 219 single family homes SOLD in 2007.  The median home prices fluctuated a bit, depending on the specific area or Lafayette Colorado neighborhood.  Call me at (303) 588-4665 and I can help you go over this further; depending on the areas in Aurora that you're interested in?   Dangers exist if you're planning on buying Lafayette Colorado real estate and new homes for sale, so please read this extremely important article I wrote:  The Top 25 Dangerous Situations in Buying Lafayette Colorado Real Estate Lafayette is especially known for its numerous authentic Mexican restaurants.  Each has a slightly different flavor, atmosphere, and margarita, but no one can argue that these restaurants offer some of the most delicious authentic and affordable Mexican food in Boulder County. • Efrain’s Mexican Restaurant is located on 101 E Cleveland Street.  • La Familia is located on 201 N Public Road.  • Santiagos is located on 104 N. Public Road.  • Casa Alvarez is located on 502 S. Public Road.   Like much of Colorado, Lafayette receives an unparallel amount of sunshine.  The sun shines in the Front Range on average about 303 days a year.  Like the rest of cities in the Front Range region, Lafayette home owners enjoy mild winters, warm summers - and terrific spring and fall periods. The summer and winter mean temperatures remaining approximately around 30 degrees F. in January and in July around 82 degrees F.    Lafayette Fun and Entertainment...   About 10 miles south of Lafayette, the Flatirons Crossing Mall at the crossroads of the Northwest Parkway and U.S. 36, the SE Plateau provides a full high-end shopping mall - including major department and specialty stores. Lafayette CO real estate is also half an hour from Denver's world-class Performing Arts Center where you can see The Denver Opera, Colorado Ballet, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and national theatre productions.  This relatively close proximity to Denver colorado real estate also provides easy access to Invesco Mile High Stadium, the Pepsi Center and Coors Field for those interested in becoming Colorado sports fanatics!.   Lafayette Colorado has a number of annual community events including the Lafayette Wine Festival, the Lafayette Peach Festival, the Annual Lafayette Festival, and everyone’s favorite, the Lafayette Oatmeal Festival.  At the Lafayette Oatmeal Festival, children and adults enter into a huge room filled with table after table holding bowls of every potential oatmeal topping you could imagine and even some you couldn’t!  In addition to eating crazy oatmeal, the festival provides health awareness booths and activities – and focuses on the importance of eating your oats.  Also, the town of Lafayette hosts various cultural arts events, activities, and projects.  These include multiple City of Lafayette commissions and committees dedicated to promoting and nurturing cultural arts in the community and many other diverse cultural institutions including the Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts, Theater Company of Lafayette, and the World of Wonder Children’s Museum.  Excellent local skiing is only a 45 minute drive through Boulder Canyon to Eldora.  And that's in addition to the handful of Colorado world-class ski resorts including Winter Park, Arapahoe Basin, Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, and Keystone are approximately an hour and a half away - with Aspen, Snowmass and Vail just a bit further.  Lafayette Colorado real estate is popular for parents who have kids attending college at the University of Colorado at Boulder - as it's only a 20 minute drive to campus! Lafayette also offers state-of-the-art recreation centers.  The Louisville Recreation Center is the new skate-board and stunt-bike park.  Lafayette Recreation Center rests on 20 acres of park land and provide patrons with a 4-field youth sports complex for soccer, football softball and baseball, an inline hockey rink and the City' of Lafayette’s outdoor classroom.   The Lafayette Recreation Center hosts annual triathalons and other fitness activities for the community as well.   Lafayette Golf Courses   Buying Lafayette real estate provides easy access to exception golf courses.  Indian Peaks Golf Course is a public facility located in Lafayette, Colorado.  You can crush a golf ball at a mile above sea level here and have amazing views of the Indian Peaks mountain range from most everywhere on the course.  The golf course is a Hale Irwin Signature Course too.  The facility is complete with 18 holes of championship golf course, a boutique Golf Shop, and a remarkable practice facility including driving range, putting green, chipping green, and practice bunkers. Indian Peaks is routinely ranked in the top public courses in Colorado.  Golf Digest rated Indian Peaks a 4-Star course in its Places to Play Golf in America.     Coal Creek Golf Course is located a few miles away in Louisville, Colorado.  This course provides an 18-hole golf course offering challenging rounds also with a breathtaking view of the Rocky Mountains too. The front nine presents a links style layout with large trees and plenty of water obstacles lining the fairways on all the holes but two.  The back nine challenges patrons with several excellent elevation changes and a few sand traps.  The golf course provides for every level of ability with four sets of tees – so everyone can enjoy themselves. Lafayette real estate is truly a great place to live and to raise you family - especially if you like living in smaller communities.  With all the fantastic outdoor activities at your doorstep, it's become an outdoor enthusiasts paradise with road and mountain biking, hiking, rock climbing, golfing, hunting, fishing, rafting, boating, snow-shoeing, or camping - are all at your beckoning close by!       Lafayette Colorado Real Estate Information...   Do you know what’s the #1 MISTAKE people make and the #1 COMPLAINT to the Colorado Real Estate Commission when buying or selling Lafayette Colorado real estate; especially buying Lafayette new homes?   Shockingly, it’s that there was confusion on the Purchase Contract and the Buyers or the Sellers got “screwed financially” because they didn’t understand or were not clear on the Contract they had just signed!  What's amazing is that only a small fraction of those complaints were filed against experienced Lafayette Colorado real estate agents or Lafayette Realtors.  The majority of the complaints in 2007 and the majority of people who get pissed during and after the closing used inexperienced or part-time Lafayette real estate agents - or NO Lafayette Realtor at all (…especially buying new homes in Lafayette Colorado.)     Wouldn’t you want experienced Lafayette real estate agents sticking up for YOUR legal rights when the Sellers or Buyers decides to try to “screw you over” financially - or if there’s a problem on the mortgage loan or closing?  Did I mention that I’ve personally closed nearly $100 million in real estate and mortgage loan transactions…and have always been able to negotiate or resolve every single problem we’ve encountered since 1998.  I’m not saying that to brag, but instead to let you know that a professional Lafayette Realtors or Lafayette real estate agents representing your rights and helping you is absolutely mandatory, especially when problems come up! Tell me about what price range of homes you're interested in and what part of town you want to buy in?  Buying and selling Lafayette Colorado real estate is much more profitable when you hire me and when you send me the email form here...   Thank you,   Jeff Boyce (303) 588-4665     Name:   Home Phone:   E-mail:       Site Map This article was written by Jeff Boyce and Anne Zoltani.  Anne is is a freelance writer residing in Boulder, Colorado.