In Lafayette, the Condo Market Is Mostly a Construction Schedule

The usual way to price a condo is to pull recent sales from the same building and nearby buildings. In Lafayette that method has almost nothing to work with. Lamorinda Weekly published Lafayette sale lists on July 8, August 12 and September 9, 2026. Together they cover about 71 recorded transactions, and only two carry a unit number.

Most Lafayette condos for sale today are new construction, sold by builders on a schedule. Three for-sale condo projects downtown are at different stages, from selling now to not yet under construction. A Planning Commission hearing on October 19 will help decide how much more can be built on the same corridor. For a buyer who wants Lafayette without a detached house, the question is how to price new construction when there are almost no resales to compare against, and how to read a delivery date.

Two Unit Numbers in Three Months of Recorded Sales

Lamorinda Weekly's lists don't label property type, so the tally below is read from the addresses. Anything with a unit number counts as attached. Anything else that looks like a house counts as provisionally detached. Under that method, the July 8 list had both attached sales from the whole period:

• 1000 Dewing Ave. #210 sold for $1,330,000, recorded May 26, 2026
• 950 Hough Ave. #307 sold for $628,000, recorded May 15, 2026
• 3265 Hillview Lane, a 2-bedroom, 600-square-foot home that sold for $775,000 on June 17, 2026. It's listed in August, and the list doesn't say whether it is attached.

The detached-looking sales cover a much wider and higher range. The newest list, published September 9 and covering sales recorded in July and August 2026, runs from $1,250,000 at 3342 South Lucille Lane, recorded August 4, to $4,800,000 at 1165 Glen Road, recorded July 9. The July list's low end was $1,128,000 at 3384 Deer Hill Road, recorded May 29. So in summer 2026, almost every recorded Lafayette sale was a house priced above $1.1 million. The two condo sales sit at very different prices from each other, which makes them a poor basis for anyone trying to price a third.

That doesn't mean Lafayette has no condos. The city's development list shows completed condo projects including Blue Oak, Lafayette Park Terrace, Town Center III, The Mill at Brown, 'SIX' by Lenox Homes, Woodbury, Woodbury Highlands and Woodhaven. Owners in those buildings simply didn't sell often enough during these months to show up in the record.

Where the Attached Homes Are Coming From

For anyone shopping for a Lafayette condo now or soon, the supply that matters is in the pipeline:

The Brant alone has 66 homes, far more than the two condo resales that showed up in Lafayette's recorded sales over the summer. Oak Hill adds 85 more. When both are fully built, the number of new downtown condos will be many times larger than the trickle of resales the local record shows today.

The 315-unit Terraces of Lafayette isn't in this table because it is an apartment project. The city's project page says mass grading is expected in 2027. On the for-sale side, the other new project in town is 17 detached homes and three attached ADUs approved at 3600 Deer Hill Road in 2025.

Pricing a Condo When the Builder Sets the Number

When the main supply is new construction, the first price a buyer sees comes from the builder's sales office, not from recent sales. The Brant's range of $822,880 to $1,912,880 is an asking range on the builder's site for what it calls single-level condo flats. It isn't a record of closed sales. We haven't found a published count of units sold or any recorded closing prices for the building.

A few things follow for a buyer working from that range:

1. The bottom of the range is below most of the summer's detached sales. At the asking stage, a Brant flat may be one of the few ways into Lafayette under $1.1 million that isn't a below-market unit.
2. There aren't enough resale comps to judge the upper end. At the top of the range, buyers can't easily check the price against comparable sales, which makes floor plan, floor level, HOA dues and what's included the main things to compare.
3. The below-market units run on a separate program. A two-bedroom moderate-income unit at The Brant is offered through HouseKeys, an outside program administrator, at $511,046. Applications are due October 15, 2026, at 5:00 p.m.

Oak Hill hasn't started selling yet. Lamorinda Weekly describes it as a seven-story building with one-, two- and three-bedroom homes, a lobby, a private library and conference room, a golf simulator, a fitness center, a Zen garden, an elevated lounge facing Mt. Diablo, a dog run and a ground-floor café. It's across from Safeway, and the developer's in-house brokerage will handle sales. No prices or reservation date have been published. Diamond Construction also built Blue Oak, one of the completed condo projects on the city's list, and Lucas Ranch.

A Delivery Date Can Change After Approval

A buyer reserving off-plan is relying on the builder's description of what will be finished and when, and Lafayette's projects show that description can change. Oak Hill was first planned with 90 units. The revised plan has 85, parking went from 178 spaces to 155, and bike parking from 52 to 50. City staff cited construction requirements, coordination with outside agencies and changing financial conditions. The affordable mix is also described differently in different places. Lamorinda Weekly's groundbreaking report lists 74 market-rate and 11 below-market homes, while Patch's May 29 coverage of the revision gave a different split. The final approved plans are the place to confirm it.

At 3458 Mt. Diablo, the city and the architect give different unit counts, 31 and 29. The architect's page may reflect an earlier version of the design. Lamorinda Weekly's approval story describes a six-story mixed-use building with ground-floor commercial space that the developer pursued under the state Density Bonus Law. Construction isn't expected to start until spring 2027.

None of this is unusual for a mid-rise project. It does mean that a reservation in this market is a bet on a schedule as well as a price.

October 19 Sets the Next Round

How many more condos Lafayette gets depends on a zoning decision, and the next public hearing on it is this month. On June 9, 2026, the city settled a lawsuit from the Housing Action Coalition over its Housing Element. As part of the deal, it agreed to pay $120,080 in attorney's fees and to consider upzoning 130 acres by the end of the year. Mayor Carl Anduri's statement in the city's announcement read:

"While we dispute HAC's contentions, this settlement agreement was made as part of a compromise in order to avoid time consuming and costly litigation."

According to the city's October 2 roundup, the Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Monday, October 19, at 7 p.m. It will meet in the Don Tatzin Community Hall at the Lafayette Library & Learning Center, 3491 Mt. Diablo Boulevard, and will consider recommending:

• Raising the West End Commercial, East End Commercial and Downtown Core designations from 60 to 65 dwelling units per acre
• Creating new 45-unit-per-acre versions of those three designations
• Setting minimum densities on Housing Element opportunity sites and allowing taller buildings to match the maximum densities
• Merging two base zoning districts into a single Downtown Core district
• Rezoning about two acres of the DeSilva site from Rural Residential to High Density Multifamily, at up to 35 units per acre

The city ties these changes to its Housing Element goal of allowing 2,114 new homes downtown. The agenda will be posted by October 16. The project page tentatively schedules City Council consideration for November 2026. If the changes pass, the city says it will no longer need to count on five faith-based organization parcels to meet its regional housing target.

For a condo buyer, this matters because the same Mt. Diablo Boulevard corridor that holds The Brant and 3458 Mt. Diablo is where the higher densities would apply. Someone who buys a downtown condo in 2026 could see more buildings like it go up on that corridor in later years.

Questions That Come Up

Is the Terraces of Lafayette a condo option? No. The city describes it as 315 for-rent apartments, 63 of them below market rate, with mass grading expected in 2027.

Can I still buy a resale condo downtown? The city's list shows completed condo projects downtown, including Town Center III, which the city reported open with residents moving in by June 2018. Units in those buildings almost never appeared in this summer's recorded sales, so a buyer waiting for one should expect a thin and irregular supply.

When will Oak Hill pricing come out? No prices or reservation date have been published as of early October 2026. The only public timeline is the summer 2028 completion target from the groundbreaking report.

Pricing a condo in Lafayette right now means reading builder price sheets, construction schedules and zoning hearings, with very few recent resales to check them against. With a background in redevelopment and new construction, Michael Forkas can help you compare a builder's asking price with what you're actually getting, check a delivery date against the project's approval history, and decide whether to reserve now or wait to see what the City Council decides on the zoning changes. Let's Connect.

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