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Denver vs Lakewood

Denver and Lakewood are both Colorado towns. There are 3,674 homes for sale in Denver and 437 in Lakewood as this page loaded. Lakewood is the more expensive of the two: a median asking price of $525,000 against $500,000 in Denver, about 5% higher. Homes are moving faster in Lakewood — a median of 51 days on market against 69 in Denver. On months of supply both are a balanced market right now.

Side by side

MeasureDenverLakewood
Homes for sale3,674437
New in last 30 days840134
Median asking price$500,000$525,000
Median price per sq ft$353$295
Median size (sq ft)1,4651,700
Median bedrooms33
Median days on market6951
Months of supply4.63.3
Sold, last 12 months9,6611,609
Median sold price$575,000$569,000
Median days to sell5854
Sold vs asking price99.0%100.0%

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

Denver 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.
Lakewood 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.

Denver

3,674
Homes for sale
$500,000
Median asking price
$353
Median per sq ft
69
Median days on market

Lakewood

437
Homes for sale
$525,000
Median asking price
$295
Median per sq ft
51
Median days on market

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Questions people ask

Is Denver or Lakewood more expensive?

Lakewood is more expensive. The median asking price is $525,000 in Lakewood against $500,000 in Denver. By price per square foot, Denver runs $353 and Lakewood $295.

Which moves faster, Denver or Lakewood?

Homes for sale in Lakewood have been on the market a median of 51 days, against 69 days in Denver. Of the homes that actually closed in the last twelve months, Denver took a median of 58 days and Lakewood 54.

Is Denver or Lakewood the better market for a buyer?

Denver is a balanced market and Lakewood is a balanced market, measured on months of supply — 4.6 months in Denver and 3.3 in Lakewood. More months of supply means more choice and more room to negotiate, so on that measure Denver 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 Denver and Lakewood?

There are 3,674 homes for sale in Denver and 437 in Lakewood as this page loaded, 840 and 134 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.

The listings these figures are drawn from were last changed at the MLS on November 7, 2026 at 1:25 AM Mountain time. The figures themselves are worked out again from scratch every time this page is opened.

Common questions, answered with live Colorado numbers