A seller's pricing analysis needs to account for the houses buyers can visit as well as the ones that have already sold. The two neighborhood maps carry both types of information, with a date attached to the listing snapshot.
Reading the available competition
In the snapshot, the West Lafayette map carries 110 homes for sale across 40 of its 51 ranked neighborhoods, and the Lafayette map carries 127 across 57 of its 95. In West Lafayette those listings split close to evenly against their own neighborhood's two year median, 53 asking above it and 56 below, with one at it.
In Lafayette they do not split evenly: 85 of the 127 are asking above their own row's median and 41 are below, with one at it. And a large share of ranked rows had nothing listed at all, 11 of 51 in West Lafayette and 38 of 95 in Lafayette.
West Lafayette, on its own terms
- Homes for sale: 110, across 40 of the 51 ranked neighborhoods
- Asking range: $218,000 to $1,350,000, with a median asking price of $427,000
- Asking above their own row's two year median: 53. Below: 56. At it: 1
- Rows where every listing is above the row median: 12. Where every listing is below: 11. Mixed: 17
- Rows carrying three or more listings: 19, holding 83 of the 110
- Rows carrying exactly one listing: 15
- Ranked rows with nothing for sale: 11
Lafayette, on its own terms
- Homes for sale: 127, across 57 of the 95 ranked neighborhoods
- Asking range: $138,000 to $1,300,000, with a median asking price of $320,000
- Asking above their own row's two year median: 85. Below: 41. At it: 1
- Rows where every listing is above the row median: 30. Where every listing is below: 9. Mixed: 18
- Rows carrying three or more listings: 17, holding 77 of the 127
- Rows carrying exactly one listing: 30
- Ranked rows with nothing for sale: 38
Why nothing for sale nearby is not the good news it sounds like
No available listing in the neighborhood means there is no current asking price there to examine in that snapshot. Buyers may still consider homes outside its boundary. Recheck that broader competition before treating the empty entry as a timing advantage.
Asking is not selling
The counts above are asking prices on a given day, not sales. A listing asking above its neighborhood's two year median has not proved anything, and a row where every listing sits above the median is as likely to be telling you that sellers are reaching as that the market has moved. The sold column is the one that has been tested by a buyer, a lender and an appraiser.
The listing column tells you who else is in the room. Those are different facts and they answer different questions.
No town against the other
West Lafayette and Lafayette are described separately above because they answer different questions and neither is the better market. The counts are not comparable across towns in any case: the two maps rank different numbers of neighborhoods, their sold windows are set by their own refreshes, and a share of each town's sales sit in rows that are not ranked at all. Reading one town's numbers against the other's produces a conclusion the data cannot support, and this note does not do it.
What this changes about a listing conversation
It changes the second half of it. The first half is still the sold record, because that is what sets the range. The second half is the shelf: how many houses a buyer in your range can see this weekend, how many of them are in your own neighborhood, and where yours sits among them on condition and layout rather than on price.
In a row with three or more listings, that is a real conversation with named houses. In a row with none, the conversation is about timing instead.
Limited listings can affect both sides of an owner's move. Before choosing a sale timetable, examine the homes that could replace the current one and the alternatives if none is available.
What your house would bring, which of these listings an appraiser would treat as comparable, and what any of them will actually sell for are not answered by a snapshot. Valuation of a specific property is its own work, and a lender's appraisal belongs to the appraiser.
The West Lafayette neighborhood map and the Lafayette neighborhood map carry every row and column behind this note, with how to read the West Lafayette map and how to read the Lafayette map explaining the columns. The buyer's side of the same two columns is in the note on a two day house hunting trip, and sell first or buy first covers the trade in the last section.
Source: the West Lafayette and Lafayette neighborhood maps, built on closed sales from the Indiana Regional MLS (via Redfin), single-family, condo and townhome: 812 sales across 51 ranked West Lafayette neighborhoods and 1,359 across 95 ranked Lafayette neighborhoods, read October 13, 2026 from map data as of October 12, 2026; the homes for sale re-read October 27, 2026 from both maps as of October 26, 2026. The homes for sale, their asking prices and the row medians are the maps' own snapshot and columns; a row with a listing at its median counts as mixed; the above and below counts are computed by comparing each listing's asking price to the two year median of the row it sits in. Neighborhoods need at least five sales to be ranked. No individual sale addresses are used.
This note is general. It is not an appraisal, and an asking price is not a sale.