Lakewood 80226

Green Gables · Jefferson County, CO · 11,568 properties · updated 7/26/2026

Should you buy here?buyer-timing lens

29affordability /100

Buyer leverage is seller slight; weigh payment burden and the 3-lens valuation before bidding.

Payment burden

43.2%

severe

Days on market

daily

Price cuts

40.4%

of active

Valuation

+1.2%

vs assessor

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/100

Mixed

cooling · seller slight · prices easing year-over-year.

Price trend

Affordability

Valuation

Economic health

Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.

Buyer / sellerbuyer-timing lens

Balanced Market

Needs 30.6% correction for affordability

DOM: 32d (stable) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly

Score Components

Payment Burden (25%)90

Valuation Gap (25%)10

Supply & Demand (20%)0

Buy vs Rent (15%)100

Cancellation Rate (10%)0

Days on Market (5%)40

Balanced market in 80226. List price is roughly fair — focus on condition and value. Payment burden: 42.9% of median income. A 18% price correction needed to reach 30% affordability threshold. Median days on market: 32. Renting is approximately 110% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 25.2).

Balanced market conditions. Prices roughly aligned with fundamentals — similar to stable periods in 2014-2015.

COOLINGSELLER SLIGHT

Market is cooling with expanding inventory. Sellers hold a slight edge. Prices down 2.4% YoY.

Turnover Index · Live in this ZIPBacktest: 33.3% of later sellers were already in the top 20% (random = 20%, 177 held-out sales) · 9,546 parcels scored nightly

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Market snapshoteach number, once

Median price

$546,408

▾ 2.4% YoY

Days on market

daily · zip_data

Median rent

$1,823

ZORI

Investor score

30/100

cash-flow lens

Active listings

90-day

Valuation3 lenses, different anchors

vs assessor

+1.2%

Market vs assessed value — a tax-roll lag, not a deal signal.

Avg assessor$553,233

county CAMA · properties_v

vs income

—

Fair-value model not available for this market.

fair_value_scores · 10-state coverage

vs county comps

+68.6%

County-wide market — the widest, slowest signal.

Jefferson+68.6%

Lotvox comps · mv_valuation_gap

Read together: Above county comps but sustainable on local incomes.

Pricing detail

Price / sqft$209

Price-to-income7.1×

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How 80226 ranks in CO

percentile vs all Colorado ZIPs · n=476

Market velocity88%

Supply tightness96%

Affordability21%

Investment yield44%

Appreciation18%

Affordability, supply & momentum

82SUPPLY

Severe TightnessSupply Tightness

Very tight supply — well-priced homes attract multiple offers within days.

Months of Supply1.8 mo

Days on Market16d

Inv vs History+28.0%

Listing Density7.3/1k

Affordability — payment burden

Monthly payment (P&I)$2,824

Payment burden43.2%

Median income · ZIP$78,466

Mortgage rate6.71% · 30yr

Total monthly own$3,370

Monthly rent$1,823

Market dynamics

Price cut %40.4%

Momentumcooling

LeverageSELLER SLIGHT

Months of supply1.8

Sales (90d)0

Investment analysis

Median rent$1,823

Price-to-rent25.2

Est. cap rate2.6%

Buy vs rentfavors renting

Livability

Walk score6

Transit score8

Bike score—

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Price bandsmix-shift

Price Bands — the median behind the median

A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from recorded arms-length deed transactions in Jefferson.

Aggregate median +5.5% YoY in this ZIP, but the under-$500k tier is +8.3% — both the aggregate and the entry tier are rising. Over the same year the under-$500k share of sales moved from 45.3% to 41.7% (-3.5pp) and the $1M+ share from 3.6% to 4.3% (+0.7pp).

Current tiers · 12 months to Aug 25floor 10 sales/tier

3 tiers had too few sales in this ZIP and are shown at county or metro level — see the stamp on each row.

Tier	Median	$/sqft	Sales	Share	Source
Under $250k	$185k	$207	22	5.0%	ZIP
$250k–$500k	$400k	$334	162	36.7%	ZIP
$500k–$750k	$610k	$399	205	46.5%	ZIP
$750k–$1M	$795k	$422	33	7.5%	ZIP
$1M–$1.5M	$1.20M	$515	187	—	COUNTY · Denver, CO
$1.5M–$2M	$1.67M	$523	262	—	COUNTY · Jefferson, CO
$2M+	$2.79M	$620	254	—	COUNTY · Jefferson, CO
All sales (the headline median)	$539k	$371	441	100%	ZIP

Share of sales by tier (quarterly)

If the upper tiers widen over time, the headline median rises on composition alone.

Under $250k
$250k–$500k
$500k–$750k
$750k–$1M
$1M–$1.5M
$1.5M–$2M
$2M+

Median within each tier, against the headline median (quarterly)

The blue line is the single number NAR-style reporting quotes. The gold lines are what each tier actually did. Log scale — the tiers span an order of magnitude, and on a log axis equal slopes mean equal percentage moves, which is the comparison being made.

Under $250k
$250k–$500k
$500k–$750k
$750k–$1M
All sales (headline)

National context — not local

NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the West census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 80226.

United States
West

Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.

Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Aug 25 (10 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.

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Jefferson County contextmacro · jobs · debt · migration

ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.

ZIP 80226→Jefferson County, COPop: 578,437

12-Month Direction

-8Stable

Confidence

100%

DeterioratingStableImproving

BuildersLens Market Intelligence

Market Score

35· Weak

Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.

Payment Burden40

35.9%

stretched

Source: Lotvox · Updated 2026-05-15

Buy vs Rent0

2.278x

rent advantage

Source: Lotvox · Updated 2026-05-15

Valuation13

+68.6%

overvalued

Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15